Although I have specified updates are every 5 minutes in the binding configuration I seem to get them every 10. its certainly not a big issue but I thought I would advise.
I seem to get the BatteryStatus and BatteryLevel values erratically as in not every update seems to have them, as the values go to ‘unknown’ and 0.0 respectively when not provided. This reliability is a little more concerning.
but certainly heading in the right direction with the latest updates
Thanks!!!
Paul
[EDIT] The updates are looking like every 15 minutes not 10 as stated above.
Still the same unreliable Battery meta data retrieval.
@idkpmiller could you please switch your debug level to TRACE and post the line start with “json”. This will help to identify why the deleted device is still visible.
Before you post the json string, please check for sensitive information like your Apple ID.
I thought I would advise that when I was out I realised that my updates were not grabbing new data properly so I performed a refresh now ON using the switch.
This provided all the information including the previously missing BatteryStatus and BatteryLevel.
Unfortunately since that refrfesh at 1354 I have only had one other update around an hour later. at the time of grabbing the logs it was 15:53 so the regular updating is certain not very regular.
LOGS:
2017-11-20 13:54:42.229 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud bridge refreshing data ...
2017-11-20 13:54:42.229 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud bridge refreshing data ...
2017-11-20 13:54:45.089 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:69e7d8f7]
2017-11-20 13:54:45.089 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:69e7d8f7]
2017-11-20 13:54:45.092 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [413c0f36]
2017-11-20 13:54:45.093 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [69e7d8f7]
2017-11-20 13:54:45.153 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:413c0f36]
2017-11-20 13:54:45.153 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:413c0f36]
2017-11-20 13:54:45.154 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [413c0f36]
2017-11-20 13:54:46.420 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:faa6ee2a]
2017-11-20 13:54:46.420 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:faa6ee2a]
2017-11-20 13:54:46.430 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [413c0f36]
2017-11-20 13:54:46.433 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [69e7d8f7]
2017-11-20 13:54:46.437 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [faa6ee2a]
2017-11-20 13:54:47.109 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Discovery for index [0]
2017-11-20 13:54:47.111 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPhone SE]
2017-11-20 13:54:47.111 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPhone SE]
2017-11-20 13:54:47.113 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Device id [413c0f36] found.
2017-11-20 13:54:47.115 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Discovery for index [1]
2017-11-20 13:54:47.117 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPhone 4s]
2017-11-20 13:54:47.117 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPhone 4s]
2017-11-20 13:54:47.119 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Device id [69e7d8f7] found.
2017-11-20 13:54:47.122 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Discovery for index [2]
2017-11-20 13:54:47.126 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPad Air 2]
2017-11-20 13:54:47.126 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPad Air 2]
2017-11-20 13:54:47.129 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Device id [faa6ee2a] found.
2017-11-20 13:54:47.132 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud bridge data refresh complete.
2017-11-20 13:54:47.132 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud bridge data refresh complete.
2017-11-20 14:50:11.975 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud bridge refreshing data ...
2017-11-20 14:50:11.975 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud bridge refreshing data ...
2017-11-20 14:50:14.587 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:69e7d8f7]
2017-11-20 14:50:14.587 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:69e7d8f7]
2017-11-20 14:50:14.599 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [413c0f36]
2017-11-20 14:50:14.602 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [69e7d8f7]
2017-11-20 14:50:14.664 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:413c0f36]
2017-11-20 14:50:14.664 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:413c0f36]
2017-11-20 14:50:14.667 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [413c0f36]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.208 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:faa6ee2a]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.208 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Device: [icloud:device:fbab2713:faa6ee2a]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.210 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [413c0f36]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.211 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [69e7d8f7]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.213 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Current data element: [faa6ee2a]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.835 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Discovery for index [0]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.837 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPhone SE]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.837 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPhone SE]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.839 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Device id [413c0f36] found.
2017-11-20 14:50:16.841 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Discovery for index [1]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.846 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPhone 4s]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.846 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPhone 4s]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.849 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Device id [69e7d8f7] found.
2017-11-20 14:50:16.852 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Discovery for index [2]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.855 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPad Air 2]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.855 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud device discovery for [iPad Air 2]
2017-11-20 14:50:16.858 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - Device id [faa6ee2a] found.
2017-11-20 14:50:16.862 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud bridge data refresh complete.
2017-11-20 14:50:16.862 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.BridgeHandler] - iCloud bridge data refresh complete.
Update:
I have just signed in icloud, gone to find my phone and the Iphone 4S that I asked to be removed from my account a few days ago is still there. I will try once more to ‘Remove from this account’ and see what happens.
Ahh! it seems I must switch off ‘Find My Phone’ on the device otherwise when it gets powered on and is online it will readd itself. I have now disabled on the phone and it is not showing in icloud web site. I will not yet delete the things entry in OH for the removed device and see what happens.
Update
After finally removing the iphone 42 which was listed as device 1. I can see that the iPad now moves from index 2 into index 1 slot and I get
2017-11-20 18:05:44.398 [DEBUG] [binding.icloud.handler.DeviceHandler] - Unable to find device data.
I think I will need to remove all the items and things and then start again? whats your thoughts?
Sounds like a plan! First of all, you should download the last version. Patrick has released a new version yesterday evening. Then I would start with a “plain” icloud.things file (see below) and check the discovery result on the paper ui. If everything is working correctly, you should see now you iCloud devices.
If not, please switch your log level from DEBUG to TRACE and provide one more time your log files.
Here is the process I followed, I have documented this as I am performing
the tasks so that I know where I have got to and the order I performed the
tasks in case of later queries.
I commented out the icloud segments in my sitemaps
I commented out the icloud dependant rules
Using PaperUI I UNLINK the following things: Account, iPhone SE and
iPad; Note: the iPhone 4S did not have any items linked to the things
Using PaperUI removed all the items files for ALL devices and the account
Using PaperUI remove things; iPhone Se, iPhone 4S, iPad and finally the
iCloud account.
At this stage all configuration has been removed or prevented from loading
in the OH instance.
The following activitys occur on the console.
For those curious, I settled on a modified version of this approach. It occurred to me that there are indicators that I might be arriving home - the garage door opening, the front door unlocking, and so on. So now, I’ve configured the rules to automatically trigger me as being “home” when one of these events occurs, then I send refresh commands to iCloud a couple of times via timers in rules to get up to date location info for everyone, so I can know exactly who is home. This seems to work well without impacting battery life very terribly, since there’s only two of us at my place and it’s not like we have people coming and going all day long.
I have tried rebooting a number of times and I still see no log entries from the iCloud binding.
Also as per my step-by-step the iCloud thing type is not selectable using PaperUI.
Any ideas of what I have done wrong in my step-by-step or is this an issue with the binding?
Hey @idkpmiller,
just so you know. I have just reported another issue with this binding (over on Github). There will be another breaking change before the binding is final. Besides this change everything works fine for me. I’d suggest to wait for this last change and then try again.
The file provided there needs to go into the addons folder. After that the binding should be ready to be used. The addons folder is even shared via samba if you use openHABian.
Thanks ThomDietrich.
I am trying to improve the binding use-ability and so was trying the more
GUI installation process with the console really to confirm everything is
deleted/log levels etc are correct.
If the current binding is more alpha than beta then of course I will go for
functionality testing first and follow your advise of copying the file into addons
directory.
Hey Paul,
I didn’t say that, the binding feels stable and mature. The issue I was talking about is about how the binding does things rather than a malfunction. See for yourself: https://github.com/openhab/openhab2-addons/pull/2672#issuecomment-346318855
I expect a merge into the main addons repository soon.
I am now trying the latest version 2.2.0.201711251926 installing again using the PaperUI.
Now I have added the thing and setup my icloud account.
The binding has discovered the two devices on my account correctly.
I now go to the PaperUI Think menu and try and create items and link to them and hit a new problem, the item list is empty and the ‘create new item’ is also missing, see screen shot below.
I tried to reproduce the problem here; but I can see the list of items and also create new ones. Can you try if this works on an other thing from an other binding - or is this specific to the iCloud binding on that installation?
thank you for all the time you invest to help with testing; it is much appreciated!
Hi Patrik,
At your suggestion I have tried with another binding (i used chromecast
binding) and found the same issue.
Meaning there is a high probability this is a local server issue and NOT an
iCloud binding issue. I will need to investigate what is causing this, fix
and then come back to iCloud when it is working with other bindings.
please note that the latest binding build is no longer working with OH 2.1; I´ll have to try with OH 2.2. snapshot. But I assume that the introduction of the “representation-property” as something to do with it …
I´ll update here as soon as I´ve tested it with OH 2.2
… ok; seems to work with OH 2.2 build #1100 (with paper UI); therefore it looks like the binding is not compatible with OH 2.1 anymore due to the use of the “representation-property” (to prevent unwanted inbox entries).
Thanks for this binding, I succesfully tested it on OH2.1 with various iOS devices (2x iPhone 5s, Ipad 3, Ipad pro, Macbook).
Last sunday I uninstalled/installed the binding in PaperUI to obtain the latest version, and unfortunately in OH2.1 it is no longer working, as you mentioned above.
Is it possible to provide a workaround for OH2.1users? At the moment I do not yet want to upgrade to OH2.2, my current setup is working stable.
Where can I find a snapshot of the binding before the ‘representation property’ being included?
There is no need for a separate 2.1 version. You just need a snapshot before @patrik_gfeller implemented the representation property. @patrik_gfeller could you let the guys know when you did so or lik to the respective snapshot build?
