Is it normal to have to redo captcha login every ~72 hours?

[altacura67]

Hi everyone,
I'm using bimmer_connected and everything works great after the initial captcha login. I’m using the refresh token flow and triggering a refresh roughly every 45 minutes.

However, after around 72 hours, I start receiving authentication failures and I’m forced to go through the full captcha process again to regain access.

Is this expected behavior, or am I missing something in the way tokens are handled?
Any clarification or tips would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[Sonnyko73]

Now it is every several seconds. I believe there's some strange behavior...

HomeAssistant in a Docker container on Asustor:
Installation method Home Assistant Container
Core 2025.7.2
Frontend 20250702.2

[purewhitedesign]

Same here. It needs a new authentication every few seconds.

[sincze]

For the moment, is it possible to look at your HA logs for:
MyBMWQuotaError due to HTTPStatusError: { "statusCode": 403, "message": "Out of call volume quota. Quota will be replenished in 00:59:59." }

And reduce the polling to 1x per hour ?

[purewhitedesign]

I have got several errors:

Logger: bimmer_connected.api.client
Quelle: components/bmw_connected_drive/coordinator.py:74
Erstmals aufgetreten: 21:36:37 (1 Vorkommnis)
Zuletzt protokolliert: 21:36:37
MyBMWQuotaError due to HTTPStatusError: { "statusCode": 403, "message": "Out of call volume quota. Quota will be replenished in 00:33:50." }

and

Logger: bimmer_connected.api.authentication
Quelle: components/bmw_connected_drive/coordinator.py:74
Erstmals aufgetreten: 21:36:04 (2 Vorkommnisse)
Zuletzt protokolliert: 21:36:42

MyBMWAuthError due to HTTPStatusError: invalid_request - The request is missing a required parameter, includes an unsupported parameter value (other than grant type), repeats a parameter, includes multiple credentials, utilizes more than one mechanism for authenticating the client, or is otherwise malformed

and

Logger: homeassistant.config_entries
Quelle: config_entries.py:779
Erstmals aufgetreten: 21:36:04 (2 Vorkommnisse)
Zuletzt protokolliert: 21:36:42

Config entry '[email protected]' for bmw_connected_drive integration could not authenticate: missing_captcha

The problem exists even after updating to latest HA core version.

[jonokeys]

BMW has changed API access as of September 1st :(
home-assistant/core#149750

I tried to disable the automatic polling, and make my own every 30 minutes, but no luck

each of the below is when i retry the captcha auth on the integration

Logger: bimmer_connected.api.client
Source: components/bmw_connected_drive/coordinator.py:74
First occurred: 3 September 2025 at 01:41:23 (305 occurrences)
Last logged: 09:12:48

MyBMWQuotaError due to HTTPStatusError: { "statusCode": 403, "message": "Out of call volume quota. Quota will be replenished in 00:36:07." }
MyBMWQuotaError due to HTTPStatusError: { "statusCode": 403, "message": "Out of call volume quota. Quota will be replenished in 00:35:06." }
MyBMWQuotaError due to HTTPStatusError: { "statusCode": 403, "message": "Out of call volume quota. Quota will be replenished in 00:33:43." }
MyBMWQuotaError due to HTTPStatusError: { "statusCode": 403, "message": "Out of call volume quota. Quota will be replenished in 00:02:21." }
MyBMWQuotaError due to HTTPStatusError: { "statusCode": 403, "message": "Out of call volume quota. Quota will be replenished in 02:57:41." }

the quota time had reset, then jumped back to 3 hours again

Logger: bimmer_connected.api.authentication
Source: components/bmw_connected_drive/coordinator.py:74
First occurred: 2 September 2025 at 22:06:05 (10 occurrences)
Last logged: 09:12:54

MyBMWAuthError due to HTTPStatusError: invalid_request - The request is missing a required parameter, includes an unsupported parameter value (other than grant type), repeats a parameter, includes multiple credentials, utilizes more than one mechanism for authenticating the client, or is otherwise malformed
MyBMWAuthError due to HTTPStatusError: Client error '401 Unauthorized' for url 'https://cocoapi.bmwgroup.com/eadrax-vcs/v4/vehicles/state?apptimezone=0&appDateTime=1756928263000' For more information check: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/401

[jonokeys]

I left it for 6 hours, just re-tried and got the below

MyBMWQuotaError due to HTTPStatusError: { "statusCode": 403, "message": "Out of call volume quota. Quota will be replenished in 02:50:26." }

[sincze]

Had a similar issue indeed, but found out I had a second script polling (cli) disabled that put HA to disabled as well. Ran service to call HA refresh every 60 min and system has been up since then.

[ftricot]

Same issue for me. I changed the polling interval following the documentation. I'll see later if it works.

[rikroe]

Try 2025.9.1 with a fix by @phreaks