Patrik, overall I think the documentation is for the most part quite informative, but I will have a read through and see if I can come up with some suggestions or additions to the docs.
I still cannot get the locationLastUpdate item to work. I´ve looked in the logs and find the following in the openhab.log.
2017-12-25 10:53:49.704 [ERROR] [nal.common.AbstractInvocationHandler] - An error occurred while calling method 'ThingHandler.thingUpdated()' on 'org.openhab.binding.icloud.handler.ICloudDeviceHandler@c39140': 2017-12-25T10:48:47CET is not in a valid format.
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: 2017-12-25T10:48:47CET is not in a valid format.
at org.eclipse.smarthome.core.library.types.DateTimeType.<init>(DateTimeType.java:96) ~[?:?]
at org.openhab.binding.icloud.handler.ICloudDeviceHandler.getLastLocationUpdateDateTimeState(ICloudDeviceHandler.java:172) ~[?:?]
at org.openhab.binding.icloud.handler.ICloudDeviceHandler.updateLocationRelatedStates(ICloudDeviceHandler.java:123) ~[?:?]
at org.openhab.binding.icloud.handler.ICloudDeviceHandler.deviceInformationUpdate(ICloudDeviceHandler.java:74) ~[?:?]
at org.openhab.binding.icloud.handler.ICloudAccountBridgeHandler.lambda$2(ICloudAccountBridgeHandler.java:155) ~[?:?]
at java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1249) [?:?]
at java.util.Collections$SynchronizedCollection.forEach(Collections.java:2062) [?:?]
at org.openhab.binding.icloud.handler.ICloudAccountBridgeHandler.informDeviceInformationListeners(ICloudAccountBridgeHandler.java:155) [218:org.openhab.binding.icloud:2.2.0]
at org.openhab.binding.icloud.handler.ICloudAccountBridgeHandler.refreshData(ICloudAccountBridgeHandler.java:144) [218:org.openhab.binding.icloud:2.2.0]
at org.openhab.binding.icloud.handler.ICloudDeviceHandler.initializeThing(ICloudDeviceHandler.java:137) [218:org.openhab.binding.icloud:2.2.0]
at org.openhab.binding.icloud.handler.ICloudDeviceHandler.initialize(ICloudDeviceHandler.java:84) [218:org.openhab.binding.icloud:2.2.0]
at org.eclipse.smarthome.core.thing.binding.BaseThingHandler.thingUpdated(BaseThingHandler.java:228) [116:org.eclipse.smarthome.core.thing:0.10.0.b1]
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:?]
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[?:?]
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:?]
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) ~[?:?]
at org.eclipse.smarthome.core.internal.common.AbstractInvocationHandler.invokeDirect(AbstractInvocationHandler.java:153) [109:org.eclipse.smarthome.core:0.10.0.b1]
at org.eclipse.smarthome.core.internal.common.Invocation.call(Invocation.java:53) [109:org.eclipse.smarthome.core:0.10.0.b1]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [?:?]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [?:?]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [?:?]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:?]
Caused by: java.time.format.DateTimeParseException: Text '2017-12-25T10:48:47CET' could not be parsed, unparsed text found at index 19
at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parseResolved0(DateTimeFormatter.java:1952) ~[?:?]
at java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.parse(DateTimeFormatter.java:1851) ~[?:?]
at java.time.LocalDateTime.parse(LocalDateTime.java:492) ~[?:?]
at org.eclipse.smarthome.core.library.types.DateTimeType.<init>(DateTimeType.java:89) ~[?:?]
... 21 more
Any suggestions to what could be the reason for this ?
that looks like a bug in the binding; it can not parse the date format your server response produces. I´ll have a look into that and let you know once I´ve an updated version.
I am running the stable version. Would it simply be a matter of renaming the file, changing the permissions and dropping it into /var/lib/openhab2/tmp/mvn/org/openhab/binding/org.openhab.binding.icloud/2.2.0 ?
257 │ Active │ 80 │ 2.2.0.201712251133 │ iCloud Binding
and the item locationLastUpdate is now being updated as it should.
2017-12-25 20:25:15.218 [vent.ItemStateChangedEvent] - Martin_LocationLastUpdate changed from 2017-12-25T20:20:19.187+0100 to 2017-12-25T20:20:23.648+0100
Thanks for fixing and for hints on how to get the snapshot running. I´ve had it running for approximately 1 hour with refreshTimeInMinutes=5 with no exceptions. There is a slight delay detecting location change (I took a walk to test if the service updated location and locationLastUpdate to where I actually was at various times), but I think this due to how icloud updates information and not the binding.
@sipvoip@MartinKo
I see new things in auto discovery but they are formattet like:
“icloud:device:myaccount:1e97b374:batteryStatus”
so I assumed that device ID is “1e97b374” but with this there is no connection possible.
You all had longer device IDs. You really just looked in the auto discovery in the things?
@PeterP
In case you have not found the Device ID yet. Go to the Paper UI. Press Configuration->Things->“Your iCloud Device”. You will now see a blue pen icon. Press that and you will find the Device ID under the Configuration Parameters.
Hi there!
I want to use this binding as well but i got a few concerns.
I got it all set up and working but i recognize a huge battery drain on my devices.
Normally my iPhone ia at around 60 - 70 % in the evening but now it’s at 5 % …
The update interval is set to 5 minutes.
If i change it to 10 or 30 minutes in my textual configuration-file the binding does not work anymore.
Is the max number 9 minutes?
Does anyone else have this issue or maybe a solution?
add to things file
Bridge icloud:account:GadIOS [appleId=“sadgdysp@gmal.com”, password=“blabla”, refreshTimeInMinutes=9]
{
Thing device Gad_Iphone “BatmenVsGod” [deviceId=“dont have it yet right?|”]
}
add items
Group “iPhone” iCloud_Group
String iPhone_BatteryStatus “Battery Status [%s %%]” (iCloud_Group) {channel=“icloud:device:GadIOS:Gad_Iphone:batteryStatus”}
when i try to take Device ID from Paper UI i am not able to see full config
but the device is online
i can see only ,Name and Location
i am getting this logging erros
23:35:24.295 [ERROR] [home.core.thing.binding.ThingFactory] - Thing factory (class org.openhab.binding.icloud.internal.ICloudHandlerFactory) returned null on create thing when it reports to support the thing type (icloud:device).
23:35:24.296 [WARN ] [g.discovery.internal.PersistentInbox] - Cannot create thing. No binding found that supports creating a thing of type icloud:device.
when i try to add from paper UI inbox i am getting 409 confilct
after a while of playing i also got this
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:79)[95:org.eclipse.smarthome.config.xml:0.9.0.201707190720]
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.convert(AbstractReferenceUnmarshaller.java:65)[95:org.eclipse.smarthome.config.xml:0.9.0.201707190720]
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:66)[95:org.eclipse.smarthome.config.xml:0.9.0.201707190720]
at com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:50)[95:org.eclipse.smarthome.config.xml:0.9.0.201707190720]
at org.eclipse.smarthome.core.thing.xml.internal.AbstractDescriptionTypeConverter.unmarshal(AbstractDescriptionTypeConverter.java:185)
One question about iCloud (I could not find the answer yet).
If I login into my web based iCloud account at icloud.com, I can see al my friends in “Find my Friends” App.
Is this information also (theoretically) retrievable with the binding?
I did not find any other Things yet, beside the Family member associated with my icloud account.
Because functions in Binding are more (Status, Find my Phone, etc.) I think not the service friends from apple is used, the service is used by binding will be “find my phone”. And there you can only see family and own devices.
O’m no developer, but think icloud-friends would be a very different binding, not sure if apple got an API for it.
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