BMW Connected Drive Integration No Longer Working

BountyBoat · March 30, 2025, 8:24pm

forget this, I got it working

adamscybot · April 19, 2025, 5:17pm

~~What did you do? Im having issues as well – it just wont accept the pasted captcha.~~

Never mind, it was obvious: the error was making me think the captcha was the problem but I simply had the password wrong.

jmfargas · September 2, 2025, 9:52pm

I’m getting this same authentication error. The authentication seems to work after the captcha is entered,but it actually doesn’t work:

After entering the captcha the authentication error persists.
Is anybody having the same error?
Many thanks

LincolnGreen · September 3, 2025, 10:14am

Same issue here. After re-authenticating, it works for a brief period now and then logs me out again.

jeti · September 4, 2025, 4:18am

same here…
one Reason:

MyBMWQuotaError due to HTTPStatusError: { "statusCode": 403, "message": "Out of call volume quota. Quota will be replenished in 01:01:51." }

but only after:

MyBMWAuthError due to HTTPStatusError: invalid_request - The request is missing a required parameter, includes an unsupported parameter value (other than grant type), repeats a parameter, includes multiple credentials, utilizes more than one mechanism for authenticating the client, or is otherwise malformed

and

Config entry '[email protected]' for bmw_connected_drive integration could not authenticate: missing_captcha

walzing · September 4, 2025, 6:22am

Same here today…

Seems to be a problem: Cant hold authentication - says requires capcha validation despite it being validated and code entered successfully · Issue #741 · bimmerconnected/bimmer_connected

walzing · September 4, 2025, 7:09am

Looks like this will be not available in the future:
BMW to disable remote charging control API | BMW i4 Forum

kasparsv · September 4, 2025, 11:28am

Wow. Such a bummer…

walzing · September 4, 2025, 4:38pm

for bimmer_connect they talk about changing the USER_AGENT:
Out of call volume quota · Issue #740 · bimmerconnected/bimmer_connected

walzing · September 5, 2025, 6:36am

The workaround is described here:

github.com/home-assistant/core

Upcoming API changes notification from BMW

opened 01:27PM - 31 Jul 25 UTC

cbjoldham

integration: bmw_connected_drive

### The problem This is a heads up from the maintainers of the BMW Connected Dr…ive integration. In the last 48 hours I have: - received a notification via the BMW Android App of upcoming API changes for charge control - had several authentication issues in the Home Assistant integration - had an app update from my electricity supplier that forced a reintegration through a new flow with BMW The need to reauthenticate the integration in Home Assistant is not the issue I am reporting, these are just likely symptoms of disruption of the API backend. To date I have always been able to reauthenticate. I will attach a screenshot of the notification from the BMW app, it leads to the following link https://faq-backend.api.bmw/uk/s/article/Which-electricity-providers-can-charge-my-BMW-via-remote-access-ZwUkP Apologies I did not immediately realise the significance of the new integration flow from my electricity provider, as it was advertised as a change from them, so I did not record it in any way. However in retrospect it was clearly hosted by BMW not them. ![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5113bdd5-90c8-4847-bae0-d545ab7fcc4e) For additional context I am in the `Rest of World` region in this integration's terms - so Europe not China/North America ### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue? core-2024.12.5 ### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core? _No response_ ### What type of installation are you running? Home Assistant Container ### Integration causing the issue BMW Connected Drive ### Link to integration documentation on our website https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bmw_connected_drive ### Diagnostics information _No response_ ### Example YAML snippet ```yaml ``` ### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us? ```txt ``` ### Additional information _No response_

and what I found looks nice - even if you have to publish the HA to the internet:
https://labs.bmw.com/services/cba15ad5-ed53-4ad0-b8a4-6774b477eaf8

fleskefjes · September 5, 2025, 6:45am

Looks nice, but not supported on my i3

jeti · September 5, 2025, 10:34am

my (older) F46 BMW is also not supported…

walzing · September 6, 2025, 5:46am

I have an iX3 which is supported - testing now.

What the integration does is sending the data directly to your Home Assistant. If you have not published it to the internet, you need to make it public available. I am currently setting up nginx.

However - changing the USER_AGENT string fixed it for me for now

Hodor · September 8, 2025, 9:54am

Same on my i7.

Currently have an ix3 & i7, had a mini JCW & M3 touring, got an M5 touring on order and about to also order a new ix3 this weekend. The fact I could connect to these and run automations that integrated with our solar, home battery, chargers, garage doors, gates etc was a major plus for our purchasing decisions. If this is the state of direction for BMW, then Ill not be bothering.

fleskefjes · September 8, 2025, 12:42pm

Surprising that the flagship i7 is not supported. Anyhow, I re-authenticated two days ago and I am still connected through the original HA integration.

walzing · September 9, 2025, 8:00am

It was mentioned that this was fixed in 2025.9.1
Releases · home-assistant/core

Bump bimmer_connected to 0.17.3 (@rikroe - #151756) (bmw_connected_drive docs) (dependency)

After updating it worked once, but than I received this error:

2025-09-09 09:44:33.976 ERROR (MainThread) [
homeassistant.components.bmw_connected_drive.coordinator] Error fetching [email protected] data: Error updating vehicle data. [Errno -3] Try again

walzing · September 9, 2025, 4:22pm

Has someone successfully implemented the BMW_HOME App?

Hodor · September 27, 2025, 6:51am

Did you get any further in testing this? It seems that only Germany has access to this homeassistant link from BMW labs at present.

The workaround has now started failing for some, so it seems BMW are determined to block us and force us down the route of using their HA integration (which at present isn’t released outside Germany it seems).

fink85 · September 27, 2025, 2:24pm

Workaround with changing the user also fails now here (switzerland). Since yesterday, my integration is not able to reconnect. Tried to do this (see below), but still offline.

docker exec -it homeassistant /bin/bash -lc ’

set -e

FILE=$(python3 - << “PY”

import importlib, inspect, os

m = importlib.import_module(“bimmer_connected”)

print(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(inspect.getfile(m)), “const.py”))

PY

)

echo “Editing: $FILE”

cp -n “$FILE” “$FILE.bak” || true

sed -i “s#^X_USER_AGENT = .*#X_USER_AGENT = "android(HAN-xxxxx);{brand};{app_version};{region}"#” “$FILE”

grep -n “^X_USER_AGENT” “$FILE”

’

ha core restart

frankhirsch · September 27, 2025, 3:14pm

I downloaded the latestet bimmer_connected Python package locally and tested the connection - the fix for USER_AGENT ist already included. The issue is the connection to https://cocoapi.bmwgroup.com/eadrax-crccs/v2 is rejected/blocked.

bimmer_connected.models.MyBMWAPIError: HTTPStatusError: Blocked

Client error '489 Blocked' for url 'https://cocoapi.bmwgroup.com/eadrax-crccs/v2/vehicles?fields=charging-profile&has_charging_settings_capabilities=true'
For more information check: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/489

Wrong credentials (user / password / captcha) would look different…

bimmer_connected.models.MyBMWAuthError: HTTPStatusError: invalid_client - Client authentication failed (e.g., login failure, unknown client, no client authentication included or unsupported authentication method)

Now I understand why the authentication did work in HA but the integration it self fails… wasted > 24 hours waiting for the API to get unlocked before finding this post.