PHLocation V2 Discussion

[John245]

Updated today to v2 of this PI.

I'm experiencing the following issues:

1( Attitude has unknown status
2) Distance to home, drive time to home and time at location will not update



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John

[rotunnoe]

Hi All. I got a new iphone. So i reset my icloud service account and authenticated the 2FA piece with no issue. When I try to poll the phone however i get the following message: PHLocation2 Error, (PollAccount) Auth failed for AppleId. and (idmsaAuthenticate) Missing result data for Ref:4538. I'm not sure why this is happening as the Phlocation 2 iCloud service shows that I've successfully verified it. Does anyone else have this issue?

Explain? How do you use Geofency without PHLOCATION?

Curious? Are there any guides or details?

Here you go .


Make sure ''Enable control using JSON '' under ''Remote Control Settings'' is activated ( Go to hs3_IP:Port/setup and click on Network tab).

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Explain? How do you use Geofency without PHLOCATION?

Curious? Are there any guides or details?

Will do when I get home

[mjolsen]

You can use geofency with the json api via myhs . No need for a plugin to run

Explain? How do you use Geofency without PHLOCATION?

Curious? Are there any guides or details?

[PrimaryInc]

Paul has been called to help a friend’s business. He wrote to me that it was demanding much more time than he expected, leaving him very little time to spend on this project. He said he wanted to get back to it, but was unsure when he would have time again.

My employment has similarly affected my ability to spend time on these forums, so I completely understand.

All that being said, PHL2 is working perfectly for me. There is only one issue of expiring cookies for iCloud authorization tokens. I reset my accounts monthly to avoid getting nag emails from Apple. There have been two instances of Apple breaking the authorization scheme over the last 8 months. Once late last year and again a few months ago. Other than those two instances, mine has been working well since initial installation.

PHL2 requires 2FA (2 factor authorization) to be used, it will not work with 2-step authorization. The one issue that Paul hoped to address is the expiration of the authorization tokens, but as of the last time we spoke, he still had not found a solution. He has not been able to find anything from Apple to allow the tokens to be persistent or to automatically renew.

Thanks for your update

[metkhoo]

I find this works perfectly with GeoFency.
Love it!

[Bigstevep]

Don't waste the time for me. I just dumped and rebuilt everything and it's all working.

[randy]

Yes one of the phones has a change in the items mentioned prior (again no update as of the minutes) and is 30 miles currently away from the last location in HS3 (I can login into the iCloud account and see it). Force update doesn't do anything different even after manual polling. Any other ideas or just rebuild the nodes?

I’m going to set up a test installation over the next day or so so I can test on a clean system. You should be able to delete iCloud devices and recreate them. You also should be able to “Rebuild Child Devices” under the root device.

[randy]

Paul has been called to help a friend’s business. He wrote to me that it was demanding much more time than he expected, leaving him very little time to spend on this project. He said he wanted to get back to it, but was unsure when he would have time again.

My employment has similarly affected my ability to spend time on these forums, so I completely understand.

All that being said, PHL2 is working perfectly for me. There is only one issue of expiring cookies for iCloud authorization tokens. I reset my accounts monthly to avoid getting nag emails from Apple. There have been two instances of Apple breaking the authorization scheme over the last 8 months. Once late last year and again a few months ago. Other than those two instances, mine has been working well since initial installation.

PHL2 requires 2FA (2 factor authorization) to be used, it will not work with 2-step authorization. The one issue that Paul hoped to address is the expiration of the authorization tokens, but as of the last time we spoke, he still had not found a solution. He has not been able to find anything from Apple to allow the tokens to be persistent or to automatically renew.

[PrimaryInc]

Has this project stopped?
There's been no new release sins January, and no post form developer.
Anybody know?

[Bigstevep]

So I dumped the nodes and iCloud accounts now I have created the iCloud accounts and verified but in create device drop down there is no iCloud account pick to set up the device. Do I need to remove the plugin and start all over? My Geofency devices are working BTW

[Bigstevep]

Yes one of the phones has a change in the items mentioned prior (again no update as of the minutes) and is 30 miles currently away from the last location in HS3 (I can login into the iCloud account and see it). Force update doesn't do anything different even after manual polling. Any other ideas or just rebuild the nodes?

[randy]

OK I'm having an issue with iCloud (2 different accounts) not updating. All that is updating is Device state, Charging, Battery and Time at location (but not he actual minutes). I have re-authorized the iCloud accounts, stop and re-start the plugin, signed on the iCloud accounts via PC (they are showing the movement) and still no updates. Should I shutdown the plugin remove all the HS3 nodes and let the plugin rebuild everything?

Have the phones moved more than the minimum distance? Nothing will update until the phones post a new location that is greater than the minimum distance to move.

You can force an update by selecting ”Force update of position devices” under Other on Configuration, then manually polling the accounts.

[Bigstevep]

OK I'm having an issue with iCloud (2 different accounts) not updating. All that is updating is Device state, Charging, Battery and Time at location (but not he actual minutes). I have re-authorized the iCloud accounts, stop and re-start the plugin, signed on the iCloud accounts via PC (they are showing the movement) and still no updates. Should I shutdown the plugin remove all the HS3 nodes and let the plugin rebuild everything?