iCloud Binding Communication Error

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Really appreciate Fabio. Many thanks!

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That would be a very welcome support, does ithe lib support 2FA? Any ideas how the input of the code could be integrated into the startup process, normally there is no user interaction, …

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I tried now a different approach. I still had a vm with a test-installation of Home Assistant. The icloud3 addon for HA has a lot of features and it seems, it doesn‘t have the 2 month reauthentication restriction. So all states of HA are published via MQTT. In OH I read the values from MQTT. For interaction with HA (like forcing a refresh or triggering a message) I use the HA Rest API and trigger it via OH sendhttppostrequest.

This setup might be an overkill for most users and as I am a completely beginner with HA, it took me a lot of time to get it sorted…

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Please have a look at EchoControl binding, there is a separate page for such.

Else implement it as a second config param the user can set after receiving the code.

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Hi, since the current iCloud Binding is very instable I created a little wrapper around the pyicloud lib and publish the device data to a mqtt broker.

Please be aware that this was quickly ‚hacked‘ and errors are likely to appear :wink:
Error reports or Pull requests are very welcome.

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Another simple workaround (with support for 2FA/2SA):

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I used the iCloud binding for detecting sleep mode (=iPhones are all in Flight Mode) and presence detection.

For presence detection I´m using now GPS tracker (own tracks on iOS) and for the sleep mode I´m building a scale using ESP32 controller and weight modules to check the weight of our bed to determine if sleep mode should be activated or not.

Anyhow I would like to see this binding working again. Thanks for your effort!

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Hello everyone,
I would also be very happy if this binding works again.
It does exactly what I need and it’s easy to configure…

Maybe you should set up a donate button on Github :wink:

Thank you for the work.

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Does anybody know where I can found some documentation about the iCloud API (Rest API doc, Authentication)?

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I created a prerelease working version: Release proof-of-concept-1 · maihacke/openhab-addons · GitHub

Also see discussion here [iCloud] Bridge-Thing generates Communication Error · Issue #13282 · openhab/openhab-addons · GitHub

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This are good news. Thanks for your effort. But i am not able to input the code using MainUI because there is no field for this. My thing config is within a json-file under userdata.

Can you give me a hint?

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You have to provide it in the thing config file:

Bridge icloud:account:simon [appleId="", password="*", code="XXXXXX", refreshTimeInMinutes=5]

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I have seen this within your description. But my json file format looks like this and is created by MainUI. Can i modify the json in order to do the job?

"icloud:account:62ba8ace": {
    "class": "org.openhab.core.thing.internal.ThingStorageEntity",
    "value": {
      "isBridge": true,
      "channels": [],
      "label": "iCloud Account Willi",
      "configuration": {
        "appleId": "willibald.konrath@t-online.de",
        "password": "xxxxxx",
        "refreshTimeInMinutes": 5
      },
      "properties": {},
      "UID": "icloud:account:62ba8ace",
      "thingTypeUID": "icloud:account",
      "location": ""
    }

Where needs an icloud.things (not a .config) file to be stored and how does it come together with my json file? Sorry for this kind of questions but i am a MainUI user type.

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I have tested it…it’s working…Thank You!!!

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What you are referring to is the json db. I’m not sure if it works to add it there. I meant a .things file in the config dir.

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Understood now. Is my first xxx.things file. Took a while because i am not a text config user.

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Works for me, asked for access confirmation cipher code twice.
Thanks a ton for the effort!

The discovery seems to double work since I configured two apple account bridges in the thing file.

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Stored the icloud.things file using the same account ID “62ba8ace” as in my old json database file and it does the job using the existing account thing :smiley:.

Many thanks so far.

Bridge icloud:account:**62ba8ace** [appleId="willibald.konrath@t-online.de",
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Understood, thats also interesting. I will try to find out how to add the config to the UI.

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Adding the code to the UI was very easy. Created a new release for that:

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