Losing the maintainer and being discontinued are not the same thing. We need to be increasing awareness so someone else with the nonce picks it up. Stating it is discontinued implies a choice has been made to kill it to me, and that isn’t what has happening.
Thank you for all your help with setting up this integration and hopefully someone will be able to take it over.
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Thanks @VaReTaS for all your hard work on this. It’s been much appreciated and will be sad to see it fold.
I’ve been using it on my MG4 for a while now. I had an occasional problem where when I restarted HA after updates etc. it would fail to load. But I just restarted a few times and it always came back up. So I lived with it. After the last restart It refused to restart despite tried many time over a couple of days. The log indicates an auth error.
So, I decided to uninstall it and start again.
So, I deleted the secondary account in the iSmart App & deleted the integration.
Readded the secondary account (tied to my mobile) and got the green "active " to indicate success.
Reinstalled the integration but when I enter my credentials I keep getting authentication failure.
When I set up the new iSmart secondary account it didn’t request a password for the new account. Just my main account (email) login to allow me to create the new account.
It’s a long time since I set it up and I have two username/password saved in my password manager but I can’t see or remember how I set up the password for the secondary account?
Am I missing something?
I’m also having this exact same issue.
Version 0.9.6 released with the updates needed to keep the integration working.
Check HACS for the update.
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Just updated and it works fine now. Thanks very much 
Thank you for doing this, appreciate it!
I’m unable to authenticate but the iSMART app works fine. Might be because I’m using a second account on the HA integration but again second account worked in the app after initial setup.
Shame the integration isn’t being maintained. There is another one which uses MQTT and docker.
Edit: as I write this it starts working. Might be poor signal on the car. The integration doesn’t handle disconnects well.
I had the no availible quite a lot. in the entities there is a update vehicle data with a Press button behind it that activly retreives the data. That “Press” works fine every time. So i made an automation for every hour with action Perform action ‘Button: Press’ on MG ZS EV Update Vehicle Data. That seems to work for me.
alias: Trigger MG diagnostics
description: “”
triggers:
- trigger: time_pattern
hours: /1
conditions:
actions: - action: button.press
target:
entity_id: button.mg_zs_ev_update_vehicle_data
data: {}
mode: single
Hi,
I’m not a python developer, but I am a developer and an owner of an MG and a user of this integration. Would be happy to pick up this project and carry on your great work
Darren
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Hello, I managed to use this card, but I’m having a problem.
I don’t know how to force the retrieval of the car’s data. Sometimes it takes several hours without any feedback.
Anyone who has issues with the update interval not being what you set it to?
It’s always once an hour independant of what I set it to, have troubleshooted and looked for automations that would trigger an update but have found nothing.
It drained my 12v when the car took a vacation for almost a week
Mine is doing the same thing - polling at 1 hour intervals regardless of what I set it to. I’ve tried manually setting the next update time to 30 years and disabling automatic polling entirely. Nothing seems to make any difference to the polling interval.
Doesnt work 
cant authenticate.
Same here 
I really hope that someone will take over the project and continue development. 
anyone from India can use and login in this please help me. not able to login.
@VaReTaS it looks like you still need a maintainer for the repo? I am happy to keep this alive and maintain the integration - I have a new MGS6 on its way. By no means am I a developer (I’m a technical business analyst by trade) but can certainly keep it alive with some help of AI tools
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@Angus_M and @cypresss have either of you tried installing the PR 174 on the repo to see if that gets you authenticated?
@Pontusaur same question to you - have you tried the PR?
Didn’t try. Is it worth it? Did it allow you to login ok?