Configuration

OVMS stores all it’s configuration in a standardised protected configuration area accessed by the ‘config’ command. The configurations are organised as follows:

<parameter> <instance> = <value>

For example:

Parameter	Instance	Value
vehicle	id	OVMSBOX
wifi.ssid	MYSSID	MyPassword
auto	init	yes

Each parameter can be defined (by the component that owns it) as having readable and/or writeable attributes, and these act as access control for the parameters.

• A ‘writeable’ parameter allows values to be created, deleted and modified.
• A ‘readable’ parameter allows values to be seen. Instance names can be seen on non-readable parameters (it is just the values themselves that are protected).

For example, the ‘vehicle’ parameter is readable and writeable:

OVMS# config list vehicle
vehicle (readable writeable)
  id: MYCAR
  timezone: HKT-8

But the ‘wifi.ssid’ parameter is only writeable:

OVMS# config list wifi.ssid
wifi.ssid (protected writeable)
  MYSSID
  MyOtherSSID
  MyNeighbour

The ‘config’ command is used to manipulate these configurations, as is fairly self-explanatory:

OVMS# config ?
list                 Show configuration parameters/instances
rm                   Remove parameter:instance
set                  Set parameter:instance=value

You can add new instances to parameters simply by setting them.

Beginning with firmware release 3.2.009, a dedicated configuration section usr is provided for plugins. Take care to prefix all instances introduced by a unique plugin name, so your plugin can nicely coexist with others.