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Use them with care!
{% endimportant %}

#### Device tracker

Go to Volvo's developer portal to view [the availability](https://developer.volvocars.com/apis/location/v1/overview/#availability).

- **Location**: The car's current location.

#### Sensors

- **Car connection**: Connectivity of the car
- **Distance to service**: Remaining distance until the next service maintenance
- **Odometer**: Odometer
- **Time to engine service**: Remaining engine-hours until the next service maintenance
- **Time to service**: Remaining time until the next service maintenance
- **Trip automatic average speed**: Average speed on the automatic trip meter
- **Trip automatic distance**: Total distance on the automatic trip meter
- **Trip manual average speed**: Average speed on the manual trip meter
- **Trip manual distance**: Total distance on the manual trip meter
- **Car connection**: Connectivity of the car.
- **Direction**: In which direction the car is heading.
- **Distance to service**: Remaining distance until the next service maintenance.
- **Odometer**: Odometer.
- **Time to engine service**: Remaining engine-hours until the next service maintenance.
- **Time to service**: Remaining time until the next service maintenance.
- **Trip automatic average speed**: Average speed on the automatic trip meter.
- **Trip automatic distance**: Total distance on the automatic trip meter.
- **Trip manual average speed**: Average speed on the manual trip meter.
- **Trip manual distance**: Total distance on the manual trip meter.

### Battery-only and plug-in hybrid

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The **Volvo** integration fetches data from the API at different intervals:

- **Every 60 minutes**: diagnostics, odometer, and statistics
- **Every 15 minutes**: car connectivity and fuel status
- **Every 2 minutes**: energy data (for battery cars)
- **Every minute**: doors and window status
- **Every 60 minutes**: diagnostics, odometer, and statistics.
- **Every 15 minutes**: car connectivity, fuel status, and location.
- **Every 2 minutes**: energy data (for battery cars).
- **Every minute**: doors and window status.

If you decide to define a custom polling interval, beware that there is a maximum of 10,000 requests per day.
Every poll operation accounts for about a dozen calls (depends on model).
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