VW Group Connect v5.3.0

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

What changed / Was hat sich geändert

Added

• EU browser sign-in that gets past the attestation wall — multi-brand — #1712 #2051 #1964 #1364 +2 · thanks @majd, @woopstar, @starwarsfan

Fixed

• Climate showed the OUTSIDE temperature as the cabin reading — #2068
• The HU/TÜV service-calendar event could never fire — #1925
• The raw-dataset archive stopped after a restart — #2071
• Two opaque identifiers reached the diagnostics download unredacted — #923 #1968
• Charging Port read "connected" on an unplugged car — #1739 #632
• The per-point cruising-range unit companion was ignored — #1960
• The nested parkinglightstate dialect never reached the per-side sensors — #1949 #2064 #2066
• The Vehicle Data Scout kept re-filing already-mapped Skoda plug fields — #2059 #2061 #2062 #2063 +2
• The parked-car step never matched on a German phone (#1963, #1981, @Snaker86) — #1963 #1981 · thanks @Snaker86
• A third spelling of the same map label, and the previous fix did not cover it (#968, @Odatas) — #968 · thanks @Odatas
• Image cache hardening after a privacy review — #2057
• Fuel level could lag at a stale value while a current reading was available — #2072
• A cached vehicle could linger after re-authenticating with a different account — #1878 · thanks @tmh88
• A Canadian Audi set up through the browser sign-in was routed to the US and found no vehicles — #1433
• A single glitched reading could freeze the odometer permanently — #2054 · thanks @zintheweb

📖 The full account of all 16 changes is in the changelog: CHANGELOG.md → v5.3.0

Each line above is one paragraph there: what broke, how it was measured, and what was deliberately left alone. Written out in full on purpose — for anyone debugging the same thing, and so a summary of this release can be made from the reasoning rather than from the headline.

Die vollständige Fassung jedes Punkts steht im Changelog, verlinkt oben.

Full diff vs v5.2.5 / Kompletter Diff zu v5.2.5

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

➜ v5.2.5...v5.3.0

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:

• v5.2.5 · 2026-11-07
• v5.2.4 · 2026-11-06
• v5.2.3 · 2026-11-04

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.