iCloud SSL issue again

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I can confirm that my theory was correct. I was able to get the iCloud binding working by replacing the fmipmobile.crt file contained in the add-on folder, recompiling the iCloud binding, and installing that as an add-on. For those interested, here is a step-by-step:

  1. Uninstall the iCloud Binding from the PaperUI. None of my Things disappeared after doing this step, so you should be fine as well.
  2. Go to my GitHub fork and follow the instructions in the README to build the iCloud binding. My fork contains the updated iCloud certificate to use.
  3. Grab the built jar and put it in the appropriate add-on folder on your openHAB instance (perhaps using scp). For most of you all, this will be /usr/share/openhab2/addons/.
  4. Open Karaf and run the command:
bundle:install http://central.maven.org/maven2/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.8.5/gson-2.8.5.jar

Gson is an iCloud binding dependency that you must install manually because you are installing the binding as an add-on (as opposed to having openHAB install it for you).

  1. Also in Karaf, run
bundle:list

to get a list of your bindings. Find the START ID (first column) for the iCloud binding. Then, run

bundle:start <START ID>

If you run bundle:list again, you should see that the state of the iCloud binding changed from “Installed” to “Active”.

  1. Go back to PaperUI to check whether your iCloud Things are now online!

I submitted a pull request to the openHAB2 add-ons to get this fixed, but I have no idea how long it’d take to get out to users. Also, I strongly suspect that we are going to run into this problem again 12 months from now, since the certificate in my GitHub fork expires on “Sun Aug 23 08:45:49 PDT 2020”, so I really think that the owners of the binding should re-consider checking this certificate into the binding…

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