# Open Vehicle Monitoring System (self-hosted)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/ovms/  
**Website:** https://openvehicles.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Open Vehicle Monitoring System (OVMS) is an open‑source, self‑hosted telematics platform for electric and hybrid vehicles. It provides real‑time vehicle data, remote commands, and extensive support for many car models. Users can install the system on their own hardware, integrate with MQTT, and customize dashboards. The project is community‑driven, with documentation, source code, and hardware designs publicly available.

## Kin Score — 26.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-10-31 under rubric 0.25.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 66.1 |
| Contract Quality | 9.9 |
| Contract Governance | 22.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 30.2 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 20.6 (matched via fallback).

## Agent readiness — 20.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | unknown |
| Well Known Catalog | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | na |
| Operation Distinctiveness | distinct |

## APIs (2)

- **OVMS HTTP API** — For some time now I’ve wanted to offer an HTTP API for OVMS. The existing car↔server and server↔app protocol is cool, but requires going through some hoops (perl, whatever) to h...
- **Open Vehicle Monitoring System (self-hosted) API** — Open Vehicle Monitoring System (self-hosted) API as documented publicly: 7 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-10-28); not the provider...

## Security (2)

- **Ovms Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Ovms Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Telematics, Electric Vehicles, Open Source, IoT, Automotive

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/ovms/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.