Could not get vehicles: :unauthorized (using myteslamate API token)

[danielh83]

Hi everyone, I trying to setup first time a Teslamate docker and using the the myteslamate API token (see environment vars in my docker compose yml). After I sign in the teslamate frontend I am getting the green bar login successfully but no car is showing up. In the docker logs I see the error "[warning] Could not get vehicles: :unauthorized". I have also refreshed my token already to rule out that the token has expired but I am getting the same error. Manually pulling the vehicle data from the API Teslamate works just fine.

What can be the issue? I did some fair research on the web but could not figure out the problem. I tried also the Tesla Owner API directly with Access and Refresh token, but there I am getting the error NXDomain after logging in as it seems Teslamate try to access the fleet auth tesla website but this domain does not exists :-/

This my docker-composeyml file:

services:
  teslamate:
    container_name: teslamate
    image: teslamate/teslamate:latest
    restart: always
    environment:
      - ENCRYPTION_KEY=XXX #replace with a secure key to encrypt your Tesla API tokens
      - DATABASE_USER=teslamate
      - DATABASE_PASS=XXX #insert your secure database password!
      - DATABASE_NAME=teslamate
      - DATABASE_HOST=database
      - MQTT_HOST=mosquitto
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin  # Deine Zeitzone!
      - MQTT_DISABLE=true  # Falls kein MQTT benötigt
      - TESLA_API_HOST=https://api.myteslamate.com
      - TESLA_AUTH_HOST=https://api.myteslamate.com
      - TESLA_AUTH_PATH=/api/oauth2/v3
      - TOKEN=XXX
    ports:
      - 4000:4000
    volumes:
      - /home/daniel/teslamate-docker/import:/opt/app/import
    cap_drop:
      - all

  database:
    container_name: postgres_teslamate
    image: postgres:18-trixie
    restart: always
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=teslamate
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=XXX #insert your secure database password!
      - POSTGRES_DB=teslamate
    volumes:
      - /home/daniel/teslamate-docker/teslamate-db:/var/lib/postgresql

  grafana:
    container_name: grafana_teslamate
    image: teslamate/grafana:latest
    restart: always
    environment:
      - DATABASE_USER=teslamate
      - DATABASE_PASS=XXX #insert your secure database password!
      - DATABASE_NAME=teslamate
      - DATABASE_HOST=database
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    volumes:
      - /home/daniel/teslamate-docker/teslamate-grafana-data:/var/lib/grafana
      mosquitto:
    container_name: mosquitto_teslamate
    image: eclipse-mosquitto:2
    restart: always
    command: mosquitto -c /mosquitto-no-auth.conf
    # ports:
    #   - 1883:1883
    volumes:
      - /home/daniel/teslamate-docker/mosquitto-conf:/mosquitto/config
      - /home/daniel/teslamate-docker/mosquitto-data:/mosquitto/data

volumes:
  teslamate-db:
  teslamate-grafana-data:
  mosquitto-conf:
  mosquitto-data:

This the docker error log and some lines around:

2025-12-06 09:22:23.036 [info] Running TeslaMateWeb.Endpoint with cowboy 2.13.0 at :::4000 (http)
2025-12-06 09:22:23.039 [info] Access TeslaMateWeb.Endpoint at http://localhost
2025-12-06 09:22:23.878 [info] MQTT connection has been established
2025-12-06 09:22:26.076 [info] tzdata release in place is from a file last modified Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:10:51 GMT. Release file on server was last modified Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:45:31 GMT.
2025-12-06 09:22:26.835 [info] Tzdata has updated the release from 2025a to 2025b
2025-12-06 09:22:30.650 [info] GET /settings
2025-12-06 09:22:30.660 [info] Sent 200 in 10ms
2025-12-06 09:22:44.213 [info] GET /
2025-12-06 09:22:44.216 [info] Sent 302 in 2ms
2025-12-06 09:22:44.244 [info] GET /sign_in
2025-12-06 09:22:44.247 [info] Sent 200 in 2ms
2025-12-06 09:23:35.007 [info] POST https://api.myteslamate.com/api/oauth2/v3/token?token=XXX -> 200 (1496.441 ms)
2025-12-06 09:23:35.023 [info] Scheduling token refresh in 6 h
2025-12-06 09:23:35.334 [info] GET /
2025-12-06 09:23:35.634 [info] GET https://api.myteslamate.com/api/1/products?token=XXX-> 401 (621.071 ms)
2025-12-06 09:23:35.635 [info] Refreshing access token ...
2025-12-06 09:23:35.635 [warning] Could not get vehicles: :unauthorized
2025-12-06 09:23:35.636 [info] Sent 200 in 302ms
2025-12-06 09:23:36.809 [info] POST https://api.myteslamate.com/api/oauth2/v3/token?token=XXX -> 200 (1174.027 ms)
2025-12-06 09:23:36.818 [info] Scheduling token refresh in 6 h
2025-12-06 09:23:49.767 [info] GET /
2025-12-06 09:23:49.769 [info] Sent 200 in 2ms

Best regards,
Daniel

[danielh83]

As always once you ask for help, you figure it out. Apparently the configuration with environment with the tokens is only for the subscription API of myteslamate. So I had to manually add other further environment variables to point my teslamate docker install to the right Tesla API server and than I was able to use my access token and refresh token. This is the teslamate docker config part which works now:

teslamate:
    container_name: teslamate
    image: teslamate/teslamate:latest
    restart: always
    environment:
      - ENCRYPTION_KEY=XXX#replace with a secure key to encrypt your Tesla API tokens
      - DATABASE_USER=teslamate
      - DATABASE_PASS=XXX #insert your secure database password!
      - DATABASE_NAME=teslamate
      - DATABASE_HOST=database
      - MQTT_HOST=mosquitto
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin  # Deine Zeitzone!
      - MQTT_DISABLE=true  # Falls kein MQTT benötigt
      # API Fleet
      - TESLA_API_HOST=https://fleet-api.prd.eu.vn.cloud.tesla.com
      - TESLA_AUTH_HOST=https://auth.tesla.com
      - TESLA_AUTH_PATH=/oauth2/v3
      - TESLA_AUTH_CLIENT_ID=XXX
    ports:
      - 4000:4000
    volumes:
      - /home/daniel/teslamate-docker/import:/opt/app/import
    cap_drop:
      - all