VAG Connect v2.29.5

Home Assistant integration for Audi · VW · Škoda · SEAT · CUPRA · Porsche · VW US/CA.

🎉 Release number 300. Three hundred releases on from a small community project, thanks to everyone who filed a bug, ran a capture on their own car, tested a fix, corrected a translation or sent a log. This integration exists because of you, and it stays free. It is a one-person project kept alive against a moving target, so if it is worth something to you, GitHub Sponsors helps keep the reverse-engineering going. Here is to the next three hundred.

What's new in this release / Was ist neu in diesem Release

Fixed

• Volkswagen Canada login that failed with a server error now works (#990, #659, #915). Canadian accounts were being routed to the US login server with the US app client, and Volkswagen answered that mismatch with a server error at the password step even though the official app worked fine. Canada now logs in on its own server with its own app client, exactly the way the US already does. Volkswagen US is untouched. Thanks to @vrouleau and @shaunadam for running it on real Canadian accounts and sending the logs that pinned it down.
• Headlight flash on Volkswagen US and Canada sends the request the car understands (#659). Flash had gone from one wrong answer to the next as we narrowed it down: first the wrong request type, then, once that was fixed, a server error because the payload itself was wrong. The value we sent was copied from the European app and does not exist in North America. Read out of the current app, the real request is two switches, a horn flag and a lights flag, exactly like lock is a single lock switch. Flash now sends lights on and horn off, and the honk option that was quietly ignored before now actually sounds the horn. Thanks to @chrisspatrickk1-sys for the testing and the remote-start research.
• A car no longer blanks out its charge, mileage and range after a command when the data portal briefly returns nothing (#702). A refresh runs after every command, and an empty portal response was overwriting good values with blanks that then stuck across a restart. It now keeps the last known values when the portal has nothing new, the same protection the scheduled poll already had.
• A SEAT or CUPRA server error is no longer mistaken for a blocked-device error. A non-403 failure whose text merely contained "403" somewhere (a trace id, a timestamp) was being counted toward a device-attestation block and could raise a false repair notice. The check now reads the real status code.
• Charge, range and mileage now appear on more cars that report only through the EU Data Act portal. Some cars label these values by an internal id instead of a name; those ids are now recognised as a last resort, so a portal-only car (for example a carnet-retired ID.x) is no longer left blank. It never overrides a real named value.
• Two entity names were corrected in German and Dutch. The German downhill-consumption label contradicted itself, and two Dutch labels used a German word and the wrong term for monthly distance.

Changed

• The Volkswagen US and Canada capture script can now map which features a specific car is actually allowed (#659). The app checks each remote action against a per-car permission before offering it, the North American counterpart to the licence check the European cars use, with the same "not permitted by licence or configuration" wording. The capture script now reads those checks for climate, locks, flash, charging, wake and engine start, so a single run tells us which buttons a car is entitled to and which sit behind a subscription. It also probes a few feature groups the earlier look missed entirely: trip statistics, geofence and curfew and speed and valet alerts, and over-the-air update history. Still read-only, still masked.

Full diff vs v2.29.4 / Kompletter Diff zu v2.29.4

Every commit, file and code change between the two versions:
Jeder Commit, jede Datei und jede Code-Änderung zwischen beiden Versionen:

➜ v2.29.4...v2.29.5

Recent releases / Letzte Releases

If you're upgrading from an older version, also read these notes:

Wenn du von einer älteren Version updatest, lies auch diese Release-Notes:

• v2.29.4 · 2026-08-05
• v2.29.3 · 2026-08-05
• v2.29.2 · 2026-08-05

Full history: CHANGELOG.md

Installation / Update

HACS users: the update notification appears automatically within ~6 hours of the release.

HACS-User: Der Update-Hinweis erscheint automatisch innerhalb von ~6 Stunden nach dem Release.

Manual install / Manuelle Installation:

1. Download vag_connect.zip from this release / vag_connect.zip aus diesem Release herunterladen
2. Unzip and copy custom_components/vag_connect/ to your HA config/custom_components/ folder, replacing any older copy / Entpacken und den Ordner custom_components/vag_connect/ in dein HA config/custom_components/ kopieren — alten Ordner ersetzen
3. Restart Home Assistant / Home Assistant neu starten

Supported brands / Unterstützte Marken

Volkswagen EU · Audi · Škoda · SEAT · CUPRA · Volkswagen US/CA (Beta) · Porsche (Beta)

Found a bug? / Bug gefunden?

Open an issue with the bug-report template: https://github.com/its-me-prash/vwgroup-connect-ha/issues/new/choose

Bug-Report-Template: https://github.com/its-me-prash/vwgroup-connect-ha/issues/new/choose

Please mask your VIN to the last 6 characters and remove email/tokens/GPS before posting.

Bitte VIN auf die letzten 6 Zeichen kürzen und Email/Tokens/GPS vor dem Posten entfernen.