The Changed parts section offered all three parts to every car. An EV changes no
oil, and a checkbox nobody will ever tick is one more thing to read past on every
service — so which parts a car records now belongs to the car, the same way its
tabs, its Information rows and its Service history columns already do.
It works the way those three do because a fourth mechanism for the same idea
would be a fourth to keep in step: hidden_service_parts on the car, validated by
the endpoint that already does this, stored as the hidden set so a part added in
a later release is on by default, and needing write access because the choice
belongs to the car and everyone it is shared with sees it.
There is no order beside it, which is the one place this departs from the other
three. Those arrange things whose position means something — a tab bar reads left
to right, a table's columns are read across. The parts are a checkbox list inside
a single column, and moving Cabin air filter above Oil says nothing. Adding one
later is the same shape as the others if that turns out to be wrong.
A part switched off leaves the form and the history together — the chips on the
phone's cards, the web column's summary and the panel it opens. "I don't record
this" means it stops taking up room, not that it takes up room saying nothing,
which is the rule a hidden column already follows. That is the judgment call
here: a car with five years of oil changes hides them all by switching the part
off. Nothing is written to the records, so switching it back on brings every one
of those chips back, which is what makes the call safe to reverse.
The part that would have been a silent data bug: the API rewrites all three
booleans from the body of a service update, so a form that simply stopped
sending a hidden part would set it false on the next edit of any old record.
Both forms therefore keep every part in their state and submit every one — only
the checkboxes are filtered. The mirror of that is a *new* record, where a hidden
part starts false rather than at its `initial`, since ticking a box nobody was
shown is not a default, it's a guess. Oil is the only part with initial: true, so
that case is live the moment anyone hides it.
Verified: go vet and go test ./... pass, with a new test covering that every part
is hideable (unlike the tabs and the columns — a service that changed nothing is
a real service), that the "parts" column key is refused as a part key and a part
key as a column key, and that no part is also a column. flutter analyze is clean
and flutter test passes 32 to 35, the new ones covering visibleParts, that a
hidden part's chips go while its stored boolean stays, and the picker's fourth
section. npm run build is clean.
Both apps were driven against throwaway stub APIs. Web: the picker saved
{"hiddenServiceParts":["oil"]}, the table's parts cell went from "Oil & Oil
filter +2" to "Engine air filter, Cabin air filter", the record whose only part
was oil went to an empty cell, the panel dropped to two rows, the add form
offered two unticked boxes where oil's initial: true would have ticked one, and
editing the three-part record sent changedOil:true back with a box that was never
on screen. Phone: the same car rendered chips "Engine air, Cabin air", "Changed
parts —" for the oil-only record, and an add sheet with exactly two unticked
boxes.
Not verified: no automated test guards the web behaviour — the web app still has
no test runner, so the above was read out of the live DOM and the outgoing
request bodies by hand. The phone's picker was checked by widget test and by
rendering, but its Save was not driven end to end. Neither app was run against
the real API Server: bootstrap appends the new field on the next start, and until
that start a client sending hiddenServiceParts takes a 400 — they deploy together
from this repo, but the server must go first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
DriverVault
A car control & service-tracking system (originally "Car Control Project").
Built incrementally — starting with a car maintenance tracker (modeled on
Car Service.xlsx) and growing toward live integration with the car via a
cellular ESP32 device and third-party services (Toyota Connected, EV chargers).
Architecture
All clients communicate with the database only through the API Server — nothing talks to PocketBase directly.
┌──────────────────┐
Web App (Vue) ─────▶│ │
Phone App (Flutter)▶│ API Server │────▶ PocketBase
Home Assistant ────▶│ (Go, stdlib) │ (10.2.1.10:8027)
Car Agent (ESP32) ─▶│ │
└──────────────────┘
| Component | Stack | Status | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| API Server | Go (stdlib) | ✅ built, running, verified | API Server/README.md |
| Database | PocketBase | ✅ running, schema + seed done | — |
| Web App | Vue 3 + Vite + Tailwind v4 | ✅ full feature set (below) | Web App/README.md |
| Phone App | Flutter (Android) | ✅ web parity + biometric login | Phone App/README.md |
| Docker | Compose (multi-container / all-in-one) | ✅ deployment configs | Docker/README.md · Docker-AIO/README.md |
| Car Agent Device | ESP32 + SIM7600 (LILYGO TTGO) | 🚧 firmware in progress | Car Agent Device |
| Home Assistant Plugin | — | ⬜ later | — |
The Web and Phone apps are at feature parity.
Features
- Maintenance tracking — cars, service history (date/odometer + which parts were changed), and a per-car parts catalog, with next-due date/km status from the spreadsheet formulas.
- Technical checks — the mandatory roadworthiness inspections (przegląd techniczny / MOT / TÜV): result, cost, station and the certificate's valid-until, which overrides the car's interval and drives the next-due date.
- Maintenance log — workshop visits and repairs outside the routine schedule: type/status, workshop, parts used, labour + parts cost, invoice, warranty-until.
- Fuel tracking — refills with derived efficiency (average / best / worst consumption, cost per km, price per litre). Consumption is measured between full tanks, so partial fills roll into the next full one.
- Documents — insurance, registration, road tax and the rest, each with a server-computed renewal/expiry state.
- Reminders — date- and/or odometer-triggered, one-off or recurring, plus read-only reminders the server derives from documents and service records.
- Attachments — one optional file (PDF or image) per service record, technical check, maintenance entry, refill, document and part; fetched back through the API Server, never a public URL.
- Accounts — PocketBase-token login, profile + appearance preferences (theme/locale/date format/currency/font), avatar, email verification, data export/import, and an account-deletion state machine.
- Organizations & roles — multi-tenant
user/admin/superadminroles; admins manage users within their own organization, superadmins span all. Any user without an organization can create one and becomes its admin. - Per-user ownership & sharing — each car has an owner and can be shared with other users as read or write; the UI mirrors the server's access checks.
- Integrations — per-user connectors under a superadmin → org-admin → user cascade. Built-in today: Toyota Connected (read-only vehicle data) and the Anker Solix V1 EV charger.
- Cars from the manufacturer's own service — import a car straight off a connected account (MyToyota today), choosing what to pull in, and read everything that service knows about it from a dedicated first tab on the car. Generic over providers: the next manufacturer is one adapter in the API Server.
- EV charging control — for Anker Solix chargers the API Server runs an OCPP 1.6J Central System; in own/proxy mode the charger dials back in and the owner can start/stop and set limits from the Charging screen.
- Translated UI — the interface reads its text from per-language files (English, Polish, Danish today), with English as the fallback for any untranslated string. See TRANSLATIONS.md.
- Phone biometric login & app lock — fingerprint / face sign-in with an app-lock that requires an unlock on relaunch. See the Phone App README.
Auth model
All apps share one auth model: authentication is PocketBase's own.
POST /api/auth/login is proxied to the PocketBase users collection and the
client keeps the token PocketBase minted — the API Server does not issue its
own JWT. Every protected request carries Authorization: <token> (both
Bearer <token> and a raw token are accepted) and the server re-resolves it
against PocketBase on each call, so a role change or a deletion takes effect
immediately. Tokens are stateless, so there is no per-device session list;
changing an account's password rotates its token key and invalidates every token
already issued. Access to cars/records is gated by per-user ownership and shares;
user management requires the admin or superadmin role. Creating an organization
is the one management action open to a plain user — it promotes them to admin of
the organization they just created.
Domain (from Car Service.xlsx)
- Cars — one per vehicle (was: one spreadsheet sheet), with spec fields (engine / transmission / differential oil, brake fluid, coolant, VIN, fuel type, build / first-registration dates, …) and configurable service intervals.
- Service records — date + odometer per service, plus which parts were changed (oil & oil filter, engine air filter, cabin air filter).
- Parts — per-car catalog of part numbers.
Key spreadsheet formulas, reproduced by the API Server on read:
Next Service Date = service date + serviceIntervalDays (default 365; Excel: =A+365)
Next Service Km = service km + serviceIntervalKm (default 15 000; Excel: =B+15000)
Intervals are configurable per car.
Getting started
Bring up the stack in this order — each app's README has the details:
- API Server — configure
.env, runsetup-pocketbase.mjs, start the server. This must be running for either app. - Web App —
npm install && npm run dev(proxies/apito the server). - Phone App —
flutter build apk/flutter runwith--dart-define=API_BASE=http://<server-ip>:8080/api.
Or skip all of that and bring the whole stack up with Docker, which runs the schema setup itself — see Docker (PocketBase + API Server + Web App as three containers) or Docker-AIO (all three in a single image).
Layout
DriverVault/
├── API Server/ # Go gateway to PocketBase (the only DB client)
├── Web App/ # Vue 3 + Vite + Tailwind v4 SPA + Go BFF
├── Phone App/ # Flutter (Android)
├── Car Agent Device/ # ESP32 + SIM7600 firmware (LILYGO TTGO T-SIM7600)
├── Home Assistant Plugin/ # later phase
├── Docker/ # Compose deployment (API Server + Web App)
└── Docker-AIO/ # single all-in-one image