Hive stopped working suddenly

[Sharpy (Aaron Sharp)]

Hi everyone my setup has stopped communicating with my hive thermostat anyone else have this issue it was working yesterday and early today but just nothing now have hive updated there system or something or is it just me?

[steve098 (SteveW)]

It’s not just you. It stopped for me too.
The API endpoint https://api-prod.bgchprod.info/omnia now returns:

"genericError": {
        "error": {
            "reason": "GONE",
            "message": "Not supported anymore"
        }
}

This has been noted elsewhere e.g.

Hive REST API v6.1

I’m still coming across new bits of information.
The Home Assistant API is based on a different endpoint, which also stopped working on the same date, but the fix was a simple url change from
https://beekeeper.hivehome.com/1.0/global/login
to
https://beekeeper.hivehome.com/1.0/cognito/login

for more discussion, see here:

Hive Integration

I moved to a python script and exec method, using the python pyhiveapi library.

Pyhive/Pyhiveapi

This was updated 2 days ago to point to the new endpoint url, and works for me as of today.

I presume there are more fundamental differences between the beeker.hivehome.com and the api-prod.bgchprod.info endpoints, so a simple url change for the existing openhab binding may not be as straightforward?

[steve098 (SteveW)]

for reference, see also this thread

New binding for Centrica Hive / British Gas Hive with Multizone Heating and Radiator Valve support

I recently started playing with openHAB and found that the current binding for Hive only supports a single thermostat. In my home I have a more complex setup so I have created a new binding that supports: Hot water control Multizone heating (thermostat) Smart radiator valves Now I have got the hang of the Hive API it would probably not be too difficult to add smart plug / bulb support with help from someone who owns them (I only own the Hive heating products). This is my first attempt at a…

[Sharpy (Aaron Sharp)]

Hi @steve098 thanks for the replys so what do you think i should do move over too something else like the python scripts or wait it off until the binding developers try too update there bindings

[steve098 (SteveW)]

I can’t comment on what the developers of the binding will do. We rely on the goodwill of the opensource community, and it is beyond my ability to make the change.

I would hope that it was a relatively straightforward change to the API from the old bgchprod.info endpoint to the new beekeper.hive endpoint that is confirmed working, but I don’t know if there are more fundamental differences between the API services that would hold things up.

If you were adept at python and EXEC binding, and only needed simple heating temps, then the python script would suffice. For anything more complex or a turn-key binding, you’ll have to wait or contribute yourself.

If all you needed were heating current temp, setpoint and boiler state, I can copy out my scripts and rules for you to emulate and adapt to your own needs?

[hpuk2000 (Chris Bourne)]

If anyone is interested I’ve used the following replacement code in the original script:

session=$(curl -s -k -g -H “Content-Type: application/json” \
-H “Accept: application/json”
-d ‘{“username”:”xxxxxx@icloud.com”,”password”:”xxxxxx”}’ \
https://beekeeper.hivehome.com/1.0/cognito/login)
sessionId=$(echo $session | python -c ‘import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)[“token”]’)

I still need to replace the python bit at the end wih a bit of jq as per the original but I’m getting there as it’s updating everything as it used to.

[Sharpy (Aaron Sharp)]

It doesn’t look like the original bindings will be getting fixed aint seen anyone taking about it sadly

[hpuk2000 (Chris Bourne)]

Sorry I can’t help with the binding.
I started off using the original script as mentioned above which was a fair time before the binding was created.

[hpuk2000 (Chris Bourne)]

I got the original shell script working agian after yet another change a couple of days ago.
All the information is in the following :-
https://community.hivehome.com/s/question/0D55I00000bWVqz/has-the-hive-api-changed-im-getting-a-not-supported-anymore-error?s1oid=00D20000000njW3&s1nid=0DB0J0000004DKM&emkind=chatterCommentNotification

You use node and an AWS plugin to generate your credentials and export them to a file.
Thereafter the script uses a curl to login and a further curl to get the data.

[Sharpy (Aaron Sharp)]

Do you have a link too the shell scripts?

I cant access the site you linked it needs a user and password mine does not work

[hpuk2000 (Chris Bourne)]

This is the original tutorial.

Hive Thermostat (British Gas) Tutorial

A number of people have asked me via PM for how I connect to the British Gas Hive thermostat to openHAB. As such, here is a very brief set of notes and the scripts that I use, to help get any other Hive users started. Note that these scripts are based on information from http://www.smartofthehome.com/2016/05/hive-rest-api-v6, where the author describes the key steps necessary to connect to the British Gas API for hive. This could of course change at anytime as these are all unofficial… Also do…

I’m no shell script programmer but I’ve managed to change it over the years to mostly use MQTT rather than REST
The logon routine and the getdata function are the ones that need changing.
I have to say that i use it strictly as read only as the Hive app is good enough for control.
Also I don’t have any bulb nodes but I do have switches and TRV’s and was able to modify the code myself as it is quite logical.

The reason you maybe can not get to the discussion link is that you need the same credentials as your Hive App

[Sharpy (Aaron Sharp)]

I used too use that setup myself i only need read and write too one Thermostat nothing else i will look into it again