I wanted to bring details of my VW id.4 into HA so I could see charge and create automations with my new solar system. the current VW integration in HACs does not work with US based VW’s. digging around I found that the smartcar api did, so after lots of back and forth with AI (Gemini 2.5pro mostly) I have a working integration!
Smartcar works with a lot of different cars and has a free tier allowing 500 requests per month. ( 1000 is only 2.99 a month). The component is set to only request updates every 6 hours unless charging, in which case it will update every 30 minutes.
HACs compatible repo here: GitHub - tube0013/Smartcar-HA
This may or may not of taken up most of my attention over the last few days, so appologize to anyone waiting on a tubeszb order 