Anyone else having issues with MYQ?

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Great to see it fixed so quickly, hopefully it will make a release soon. Kudos to all involved.

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any way to apply this fix to home assistant OS no the docker version?

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You can see the changes here: https://github.com/arraylabs/pymyq/pull/43/commits/6661107c34f823c6092b747cf8a891c06ba3e39a

You need to modify a line in the api.py file:

from
DEFAULT_USER_AGENT = "myQ/14041 CFNetwork/1107.1 Darwin/19.0.0"
to
DEFAULT_USER_AGENT = "myQ/19569 CFNetwork/1107.1 Darwin/19.0.0"

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@Dorque thanks for the reply!

that is what i’m trying to find… where is that file located! im running HAss.os on RPi 4.

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If you go into Home Assistant logs, there will be errors related to that file. I’m not sure where it is for you since I use the Docker version of Home Assistant. For Docker, it is in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pymyq/ in the Docker container.

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Ditto me. Unfortunately I am a Home Assistant nube and figured I screwed something up. Deleted by config for MyQ. Next time I know.

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@dorque my file as per the log is on the same spot as yours… but when i ssh to it can’t see anything on inside /lib/

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MyQ changed their API again, fix is in PR already; likely in next HA release…

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Does their app not use this api? I am not getting app updates, so are they pushing this information to the app to use? Or do they have it on some sort of schedule. Just seems odd to me.

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They can make that kind of change to their app without pushing a full app update. They could also have had it set up in the app before, but that’s less likely.

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Understood. I guess my point is, is there anyway we can replicate that and get the same updates that the app is getting.

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That’s basically what we’re doing here. If you follow these instructions, make sure to paste in the right agent user string from Dorque here.

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Understood, I have already applied the update and it is working fine for me again. I was referring to the possibility of doing this in an automated fashion. For the MyQ app to continue working, they must be sending it and updated user-agent or, like you said, it is on a schedule. More likely I am guessing they are sending it an updated user-agent somehow. If we could learn that mechanism, maybe we can mimic it in the Python library and capture the newest user-agent and use that.

Another option is to include the user agent in the configuration like I mentioned here. This would allow for easily changing the user-agent from the configuration file and it’s pushed down and overrides the default in the Python Api class. This would make it easier for everyone to update the user-agent without the need to modify python code or waiting for a HA update.

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I haven’t followed the history of MyQ breaking changes except for the last month, but if that pattern exists outside of the last two breaks, it would be an excellent idea.

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Is there any reason this user agent value can’t be set in an ENV value? No recompiling needed.

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I fixed my Docker install as follows:

  1. On the host, download the patched file:
    wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arraylabs/pymyq/6661107c34f823c6092b747cf8a891c06ba3e39a/pymyq/api.py
  2. Map this file into the Docker container (in my case I use a docker run command):
    -v <host-path-to-file>/api.py:/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pymyq/api.py
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Does anyone know how to apply this change to HA that is installed in VirtualBox? My HA log shows the path to the file as “/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pymyq/api.py” but I can’t figure out how to access it.

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If you have terminal access to the VM you can download the patched file and replace the existing one.

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I’ve never figured out how to do that. Not exactly a Linux expert. Putty gives me a “Connection Refused”. I don’t know if SSH needs to be enabled on the VM? A firewall issue? No clue.

I have tried to get the SSH add-on working but I can’t figure out how to enable the port. The log terminates with “SSH Port is disabled” .

And then of course, the documentation has a note that says:

“This add-on will not enable you to install packages or do anything as root. This is not working with Home Assistant.” … So that’s not very encouraging.

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I’m shamelessly canvassing for a feature to allow the user to set the user-agent in a simpler fashion. Please vote, and vote often.

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