OH3.1 Generac MobileLink Binding

Add-ons Bindings
#1

OH 3.1, Pi 3B, Rhaspbian 10 (Buster)

I have a spiffy Generac Generator which I can monitor stats via mobile… I saw that there was an openhab binding for #generac-mobilelink-binding and got all excited… unfortunately after installing the binding and configuring the whopping 3 settings ( mobilelink username, password and refresh interval) all I seem to get is Status Offline Communication error.

openhab> log:display|grep generac                                                                                                                                                          
05:10:38.883 [INFO ] [openhab.event.ThingStatusInfoEvent   ] - Thing 'generacmobilelink:account:eb4bf2c09f' updated: OFFLINE (COMMUNICATION_ERROR)

I’ve truncated it here as I have 1 line every minute in my logs for this… note the logs are all openhab.event.ThingStatusInfoEvent and nothing from the binding itself even though I show

org.openhab.binding.generacmobilelink              │ TRACE

When I execute a log:get…
Is it just terminally broken or where can I find the code for the binding to debug further and maybe, just maybe contribute some error, warn, info, debug and trace logging into the binding if nothing else…

#2

Mrgh, found my own answer… found the code… it hardcoded the site https://api.mobilelinkgen.com which is a non-entity according to DNS…
grumble… now to go chew upon Generac for a new link/api!

#3

Do you know if this was ever resolved? If not, did you open an issue on it?

#4

It could be recoded, but it would be complex as Generac eol’d the api and took the test start/stop capabilities away from the owners because they were seeing ‘excessive cycling’ via the API and web interfaces both

#5

Yeah, they also switched to using Microsoft azure as identity provider and i never got around to reverse engineering the login process (its quite complicated !) . This has been on my radar to fix for sure. I’ll see if i can find some time this weekend to look at it.

#6

@digitaldan
Hi, Did you ever find any time to update this binding?

I also Downloaded and was hoping to use it as well.
Even without the test functionality it would be nice to port Genie status and other items into good ole openhab .