Coming from bimmer_connected

Coming from bimmer_connected (MyBMW / ConnectedDrive)

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If your BMW or MINI used to appear in Home Assistant through the BMW Connected Drive integration and has shown nothing but unavailable since autumn 2025, this page is for you. It explains what changed, what replaces it, and how to move your dashboards and automations across.

What happened

The Connected Drive integration was built on the bimmer_connected library, which spoke to the servers behind the MyBMW app. On 29 September 2025 BMW blocked third parties from making those requests. The library's own README now describes it as deprecated and non-functional, and no setting or update on your side brings it back.

What replaces it: BMW CarData

BMW CarData is BMW's own, official way for a customer to read their car's data. You create a personal client ID in the BMW (or MINI) portal, authorize it once, and from then on the car's data reaches you two ways:

• a live MQTT stream, which pushes each value within seconds of the car sending it — charge level, doors, windows, tire pressures, position, trip data;
• a REST API for on-demand snapshots, limited to 50 requests per 24 hours.

BavarianData is a Home Assistant integration that talks to both directly. There is no server in between: Home Assistant holds the tokens and is the only client. It is installed from the HACS default store.

What changes for you

	Connected Drive (bimmer_connected)	BavarianData (BMW CarData)
Status	Blocked by BMW since 29 Sep 2025	Uses BMW's official customer data service
How you sign in	MyBMW username and password	A personal client ID, authorized once in the browser — no password is stored in Home Assistant
How data arrives	Polled every few minutes	Pushed live over MQTT
Remote commands (lock, climate, flash lights, start charging)	Yes	No — CarData is read-only
Where it works	Wherever the MyBMW app worked	Where BMW offers the CarData portal (more)
Entity names	Its own	New ones — automations must be re-pointed

The one real loss is remote commands. CarData has no command interface at all, so no CarData-based integration can lock the car or start the climate. Use the MyBMW app for those.

What you gain on top of the raw data: a charging history with cost, a trip journal, learned battery health, a real range measured from your own driving, Energy dashboard statistics, CSV/HTML export, and an evcc / wallbox bridge. All of it is computed from the stream, so none of it spends API quota.

Moving across

1. Remove the old integration. Under Settings → Devices & Services, delete the BMW Connected Drive entry. It no longer receives data, and removing it frees the device and entity names.
2. Set up BavarianData by following the four setup steps, starting with BMW portal setup. Most of the work is in the BMW portal.
3. Add the dashboard card. See The dashboard card.
4. Re-point your automations. Search your automations, scripts and dashboards for the old entity ids and swap in the new ones. The table below gives the usual equivalents; Entities & devices lists everything.

Common equivalents

You used (Connected Drive)	Use now (BavarianData)
Remaining battery percent	Battery HV State Of Charge
Remaining range (electric)	Range EV Remaining range — or Real Range, measured from your own driving
Mileage	Vehicle mileage
Charging status	Charging EV Charging state
Charging target	Battery EV Target state of charge
Plug / connection status	Charging Port plug state
Door lock state	Doors overall state — it follows every lock and unlock; see which lock entity to use
Doors, windows, lids	One binary sensor per door, window, hood and tailgate
Check control messages	Service Check control messages
Condition based services	Service Condition based services
Device tracker	Location (device_tracker)

Questions people ask

Is this the same as the old integration under a new name? No. It is a separate integration, built from scratch on a different BMW service, so your old entity ids do not carry over.

Does it work for MINI? Yes. MINI cars use the same CarData service through the MINI portal.

Does it work outside Europe? It works wherever BMW offers the CarData portal for your account. Not every market has it yet, but the client ID is account-wide — step 1 has the details.

Can I run it next to another CarData integration? BMW allows one stream per account at a time, so two stream clients on the same account take turns dropping each other. Pick one.