Do not base one of the most expensive purchases of your life around a single application.
My opinion - since you're running HA, I assume you like having control over your data. Any vehicle with a connection to the manufacturer is absolutely sucking up your data (everything you do in and to the car), and selling it to insurance providers.
Don't lean on the GDPR to protect you here. Your data is not safe in a connected car. Buy used.
A dumb one, as in not connected. You can get an OBD add-on for $100 US that will connect to home assistant.
Unfortunately the likely answer is "there are none". All of these companies want to monetize these services and control your experience.
I'd say the Beat car brand going to piss your neighbors off, and likely be expensive as heck so I'd avoid it (like most "Beats" products).
/s - Just having fun with the obvious typo in your post title.
@Squizzy
Read last week that Skoda published an official API for smart control.
A 20 year old something or other that doesn't interact with Home Assistant is your best bet for a free way to gain more freedom and trust. Bonus: you'll save tens of thousands on the initial purchase. You're basically being paid to have more freedom and trust
Take a look at OVMS!
I don't know how well this translates to Europe, but I've been pretty happy with Ford. The remote stuff is free and there's a HACS extension with a lot of controls available.
There's a pretty nicely made HACS module that allows me to scrape my Toyota Prius data and do whatever I want with it in HA. I can even remote start from it, and have an automation that auto starts my car on hot or cold days 15 minutes before the end of my shift.
Big caveats: the remote features are subscription. You get many years for free when you buy new, but mine is actually close to lapsing now and I don't think I'm going to pay for more. I doubt the plugin will continue to work as is one that happens.
the European toyota integration is quite ok.
I have a KIA and the integration in HA is decent but it is through the KIA Connect server. Every so often, it asks to re-authenticate. This is the only integration in my HA that requires cloud account.
@Squizzy It is definitely not Volkswagen. There was a decent integration until
they made authentication impossible. https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet/issues/989 #homeassistant #volkswagen
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