The Gridio Connect UI is a lightweight web interface for end users to integrate their electric vehicles with Gridio. It enables secure authentication with OEM platforms, device selection, and optional smart charging setup.

🎯 Purpose

When launched, Gridio Connect UI:

• Prompts the user to log in to their OEM account
• Retrieves a list of connected vehicles
• Guides the user through selecting and integrating their device

After successful setup:

• Gridio obtains a token (typically a JWT) to communicate with the OEM backend using the user's permissions
• A new integration is created, and vehicle data becomes accessible
• If smart charging is enabled, it is activated for the selected vehicle

🛡️ Prerequisites

Before launching the UI, you must retrieve a user-specific access token from Gridio.

⚠️ The generic backend token must not be used on the frontend, as it grants full access across all customers under your business_id.

Naturally, we do not want to permit a single user’s browser in the uncontrollable front end application to have the same privileges. In order to get that token, you must, with valid backend access token (see Authentication and authorization for details) do the following GET request:

🔄 Retrieve a Customer Token

GET <https://api.gridio.energy/api/v1/businesses/{business_id}/customers/token?user_id={user_id}> 

• In this GET request the business_id is the one provided by Gridio
• user_id is your internal user id for this customer.