OH4: Shelly PlusPlugS - Authentication not working

Add-ons Bindings
1

Hello community,

I’m using Shelly devices with openHAB 4.0.4 successfully for a long time and every device is protected by a username and password. Yesterday I installed the “new” Shelly PlusPlugS and activated the “protection” which requires only a password.

The openHAB binding also detects that only a password is required and doesn’t ask for a username. So far, so good.

Unfortunately after setting the password the configured thing reports a “CONFIGURATION_ERROR” (Access denied. Check username and password).

After checking the debug log of the binding it seems like the binding is trying to connect to the device with a username (admin) and the password:

08:06:44.536 [DEBUG] [ly.internal.handler.ShellyBaseHandler] - shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738: Using userId admin from bindingConfig
08:06:44.537 [DEBUG] [ly.internal.handler.ShellyBaseHandler] - shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738: Device config: Device address=192.168.89.198, HTTP user/password=admin/***, update interval=60
08:06:44.537 [DEBUG] [ly.internal.handler.ShellyBaseHandler] - shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738: Configured Events: Button: false, Switch (on/off): true, Push: true, Roller: true, Sensor: true, CoIoT: false, Enable AutoCoIoT: true
08:06:44.538 [DEBUG] [ly.internal.handler.ShellyBaseHandler] - shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738: Start initializing for thing shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738 - 192.168.89.198, type shellyplusplug, IP address 192.168.89.198, Gen2: true, CoIoT: false
08:06:44.540 [INFO ] [hab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'shelly:shellyplusplug:64b7080ce738' changed from INITIALIZING to UNKNOWN (CONFIGURATION_PENDING): Initialisierung oder Gerät im Schlafmodus.
08:06:44.657 [DEBUG] [ng.shelly.internal.api2.Shelly2ApiRpc] - shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738: Connect Rpc Socket (discovery = false)
08:06:44.657 [DEBUG] [shelly.internal.api2.Shelly2RpcSocket] - shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738 - 192.168.89.198: Connect WebSocket, URI=ws://192.168.89.198/rpc
08:06:44.687 [DEBUG] [shelly.internal.api2.Shelly2RpcSocket] - shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738 - 192.168.89.198: WebSocket connected /192.168.89.242:45806<-/192.168.89.198:80, Idle Timeout=2147483647
08:06:44.712 [DEBUG] [ng.shelly.internal.api2.Shelly2ApiRpc] - shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738: Closing Rpc API (socket is connected, discovery=false)
08:06:44.712 [INFO ] [hab.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - Thing 'shelly:shellyplusplug:64b7080ce738' changed from UNKNOWN (CONFIGURATION_PENDING): Initialisierung oder Gerät im Schlafmodus. to OFFLINE (CONFIGURATION_ERROR): Zugriff verweigert. Überprüfen Sie Benutzerkennung und Passwort.
08:06:44.712 [DEBUG] [shelly.internal.api2.Shelly2RpcSocket] - shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738 - 192.168.89.198: Disconnecting WebSocket (/192.168.89.242:45806 -> /192.168.89.198:80)
08:06:44.715 [DEBUG] [ng.shelly.internal.api2.Shelly2ApiRpc] - shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738: WebSocket connection closed, status = 1006/Disconnected
08:06:44.716 [DEBUG] [ly.internal.handler.ShellyBaseHandler] - shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738: Unable to initialize: POST http://192.168.89.198/rpc > , retrying later

Is there a solution for this behaviour?

Kind regards,
Vince

2

I thoughy that admin username is hardcoded, but it is not: https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/blob/a4da9863301dec962ec4cf395bce813761ed24f7/bundles/org.openhab.binding.shelly/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/shelly/internal/handler/ShellyBaseHandler.java#L181

It is being loaded from config. From your message I suppose that you use non-admin username, am I right?

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I don’t use a username at all.
Shelly:

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Thing config:

UID: shelly:shellyplusplug:64b7080ce738
label: shellyplusplugs-64b7080ce738 - 192.168.89.198
thingTypeUID: shelly:shellyplusplug
configuration:
  enableBluGateway: false
  deviceIp: 192.168.89.198
  updateInterval: 60
  password: "*********"
4

Hello,
I’ve the same problem. Is there a solution ?

And a beginner question, how can I enable the debug logging for the Shelly binding ?

Kind regards
Jens

5

Hello Jens,
it seems like there is no solution at the moment. I guess somebody needs to create a new issue on github for this topic.

Regarding your question about the “debug logging”:

  1. Login into your openHAB console (via ssh on your system)
openhab-cli console
  1. Set the log-level for the binding (e.g.: DEFAULT, DEBUG, WARNING,…)
log:set DEBUG org.openhab.binding.shelly
  1. Check the log:
log:tail

Please keep in mind to change the log level back to “DEFAULT” after you finished your analysis.

Kind regards,
Vince

6

Hello Vince,

thanks for the help regarding logging.

As consideration the solution for our problem:

  • in the “code” tab of the thing add “userId: admin” and save

UID: shelly:shellyplusplug:SH04
label: ShellyPlus Plug SH04
thingTypeUID: shelly:shellyplusplug
configuration:
enableBluGateway: false
deviceIp: 192.168.11.11
password: “more-secret”
updateInterval: 60
userId: admin
location:

Kind regards
Jens

7

Hello Jens,

it works :-). Thank you for the solution.

Kind regards,
Vince