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This program makes heavy use of https://github.com/thorsten-gehrig/alexa-remote-control, found here under ~/github, with some minor modifications.

alexa-remote-control requires sudo install jq for command-line parsing of JSON output.

Getting and saving required cookies was the hardest part. Lots of good advice at https://www.codementor.io/@slavko/controlling-amazon-echo-dot-with-shell-a-bit-of-fun-mz6xxz92n.

Note that in order to get the cookies required by the above onto my RPi, I had to:

sudo apt install vnc4server
sudo apt install lxsession
sudo apt install firefox-esr

After installation of the above, I needed to do a sudo raspi-config to enable VNC through the Interfaces menu item.

I also needed to sudo apt install realvnc-vnc-viewer onto my Ubuntu laptop, as remmina did not work.

Logged in to the Pi desktop via vncviewer 192.168.1.6 from the laptop ('pi'/'B3st')

Once I got to a desktop on the Pi, I started Firefox and installed the Export Cookies add-on, after which I went to https:\\alexa.amazon.com and exported cookies in the amazon.com domain (clear all cookies first). This file was eventually saved to the ~/.alexa-remote-control/.alexa.cookies file for Capcha-free logins through cURL and wget.

The format of the creds.json file for authenticating to the Tesla gateway is:

{"username":"customer","password":"my_password", "email":"my_email","force_sm_off":false}

Note that "username" above is literally "customer" (as opposed to "installer")