iCloud initial configuration

Add-ons Bindings
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Sorry guys,

anyone using iCloud binding here? What are the right steps to configure properly?

I didn’t find a way to configure the Binding via PaperUI, so I presume I need to create a bridge manually.

Please let me know, I’m a bit confused.

thanks
Andrea

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Hi Andrea,

Please have a look at the iCloud Binding docs.

There´s a thing in the PaperUI called iCloud Account that can be configured with your account data.

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But you need to create the Bridge manually, right?

I didn’t see this iCloud Account in PaperUI before creating manually a icloud.things

Any missing from my side?

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I´m only working with .things files and almost nothing in the PaperUI.
It should have the iCloud Account in the PaperUI inbox after installing/starting the binding.

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I confirm you need to create manually a bridge … I don’t see any other option.

BUT …

this is also good, if you have multiple accounts (you, your wife, your children, …) you can create multiple bridges

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I created a new account, added him to the family share and used this for my bridge.
This account is not allowed to buy anything and therefore i´m not so concerned about the password stored in openHAB.

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Quite strange here …

  1. I’ve created a child account (so I can control everything) and associated with iCloud Binding

  2. Now I see all devices twice in my inBox in PaperUI

  3. I’ve always a strange issue … one device is not discoverable even if is present in the list of my devices in iCloud

mmmm

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This could be caused by your first attempt before the child account.
First try to restart your openHAB service or your hardware.
If that doesn´t help try to clean the cache with:

sudo service openhab2 stop
// wait a moment for openhHAB to stop
sudo openhab-cli clean-cache
sudo service openhab2 start

Did you checked the log?
Have a look at the logs from http://<your-oH-IP>:9001 and may add a filter for iCloud

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with clearing the cache I’ve solve the issue with duplicated devices … but the wrong device is still there. I see a Mac (offline) and not another Mac that is online and perfectly visible in the list when I check in icloud.com

mmmm

edit: the only difference is the mac online can’t activate “find my Mac” because missing the recovery partition (not avaiable when you create a raid solution)

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I‘m sorry but i don‘t have any ideas how to resolve this.

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Another question: did you register also Mac/MacBook/Mac Mini or other hw different from iphone?

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No i‘m only using the binding for my iPhones.