Tronity Won’t Sync

[Aahhcc11]

Heard about TRONITY on the forum this morning and was intrigued. Did the following steps but there has never been a data sync:

1. created a brand new fordpass account
2. linked to my vehicle to new fordpass account
3. Verified in fordpass that the new account can access details from the vehicle.
   created Tronity account
4. Added my vehicle to Tronity by entering newly created fordpass credentials.
5. View vehicle in garage and it shows that It has never synced.

Even after waiting an hour this remains the same.

Any guidance is appreciated.

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[GatorGrowl]

Never worked for me once. I gave up.

 

[Mach-Lee]

Ford blocks these sort of apps from accessing your info. You shouldn’t give your login to 3rd party apps because they can access everything in your Ford account including your location, address, and loan info.

 

[danielcb]

Ford blocks these sort of apps from accessing your info. You shouldn’t give your login to 3rd party apps because they can access everything in your Ford account including your location, address, and loan info.

There was a new OIDC connection method that was implemented by Ford that allowed syncing data properly, so you logged in in your Ford Account (I checked the URL, and it was Ford’s) and the 3rd party got a token that allowed them to make API calls against Ford endpoint.

TRONITY worked with Ford in that matter, to get the proper authentication and access to API (with proper scoping of APIs) implemented, as far as I know.

But, either Ford or TRONITY dropped the ball here. Either way, I don’t trust any of the two in regards to properly providing and consuming public APIs correctly. I tried the App for a while (with some free credit they gave me) and data sync was half broken to the point I didn’t see any value in the App so I canceled it.

What I hate in this situation is that Ford was so slow and stupid, that they thought that the best way to deal with their initial lack of proper OIDC implementation was to block anyone that attempted to just impersonate their Ford App, simply because they were extremely dumb and careless to implement API segmentation and just put everything in the same bucket. Exposing telemetry and sensitive data under the same API.

Ford has a ton to learn about developing software and APIs…

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