BMW Connected Drive Servers Down A lot!

[technog0d]

I have only had the i3 for a few days and the Connected Drive servers seem to have been down intermittently about 2-3 of those days. Both apps shows that it is not updated. I even tried a curl command to try and get a response and it is down.

Servers

There are three API servers.

https://b2vapi.bmwgroup.cn:8592 China
https://b2vapi.bmwgroup.us USA
https://b2vapi.bmwgroup.com Europe / Rest of World

curl \
-H "Authorization: Basic a2V5OnNlY3JldA==" \
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
-d "grant_type=password&username=whatever%40example.com&password=p4ssw0rd&scope=remote_services+vehicle_data" \
"https://b2vapi.bmwgroup.com/webapi/oauth/token/"

 

[alohart]

I have only had the i3 for a few days and the Connected Drive servers seem to have been down intermittently about 2-3 of those days.

Unfortunately, BMW doesn't seem to be very skilled at running Internet services. Down servers, slow servers, etc., have been a problem since we purchased our i3 in 2014. The apps that access these services aren't well-written, either. They don't inform their users when server connectivity problems are causing app problems which confused app users.