Years ago, there used to be an official Samsung Smartthings app for BMW/Mini NBT IDrive 4-6. Though that app has since died, this project, in combination with BimmerGestalt AAIdrive, reimplements the same convenient control over Home Assistant. Check on your house while you are out and about: View sensor status and remotely toggle smartlocks or lights, all while sitting in traffic!
This project needs to connect to your Home Assistant instance somehow, either through Nabu Casa's Remote UI, direct port forwarding, or through a VPN. With some custom authentication gateway setups, the important things are:
- The
/auth/authorizepage must be accessible from a web browser on your phone, which means it is able to support extra authentication challenges such as 2FA or Social Auth. - The
/auth/tokenOAuth Endpoint must be accessible directly - The
/api/websocketAPI must be accessible directly (The Login button in the phone interface appears after verifying this API is reachable)
This project does not collect any personal and sensitive user data. It doesn't even have any crash reporting or telemetry. It only stores an access token for the Home Assistant API.