Google Maps Tracking is failing after some time always

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Hi,

I have activated the google maps tracking feature. But the service is failing always after some time and I have to restart the home assistant. I am using newest Hassio System:

2018-06-02 12:39:14 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Error doing job: Future exception was never retrieved
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/locationsharinglib/locationsharinglib.py", line 99, in _populate
self._latitude = data[1][1][2]
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 56, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/google_maps.py", line 67, in _update_info
for person in self.service.get_all_people():
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/locationsharinglib/locationsharinglib.py", line 393, in get_all_people
people = self.get_shared_people() + [self.get_authenticated_person()]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/locationsharinglib/locationsharinglib.py", line 361, in get_shared_people
people = [Person(info) for info in output[0]]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/locationsharinglib/locationsharinglib.py", line 361, in <listcomp>
people = [Person(info) for info in output[0]]
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/locationsharinglib/locationsharinglib.py", line 91, in __init__
self._populate(data)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/locationsharinglib/locationsharinglib.py", line 107, in _populate
raise InvalidData
locationsharinglib.locationsharinglibexceptions.InvalidData
2

Now even a restart does not solve this problem. I dont get any updates any longer. Any idea? I am not even getting error messages now. The .google…cookie file is still created when I delete and restart the system.

3

Found a solution yet? Have the same error message now. It worked for a month and update broke it.

4

Here is my error message, if someone can help :

Error setting up platform google_maps

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/locationsharinglib/locationsharinglib.py", line 109, in _populate
    self._charging = data[13][0]
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/__init__.py", line 184, in async_setup_platform
    disc_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py", line 380, in __iter__
    yield self  # This tells Task to wait for completion.
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py", line 304, in _wakeup
    future.result()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py", line 293, in result
    raise self._exception
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 55, in run
    result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/google_maps.py", line 46, in setup_scanner
    scanner = GoogleMapsScanner(hass, config, see)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/google_maps.py", line 66, in __init__
    self._update_info()
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/google_maps.py", line 78, in _update_info
    for person in self.service.get_all_people():
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/locationsharinglib/locationsharinglib.py", line 459, in get_all_people
    people = self.get_shared_people() + [self.get_authenticated_person()]
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/locationsharinglib/locationsharinglib.py", line 451, in get_authenticated_person
    None,
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/locationsharinglib/locationsharinglib.py", line 95, in __init__
    self._populate(data)
  File "/srv/homeassistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/locationsharinglib/locationsharinglib.py", line 113, in _populate
    raise InvalidData
locationsharinglib.locationsharinglibexceptions.InvalidData
5

I have problems with my cookie file expiring every so often, and have to recreate manually, here is the thread with the info in it,

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Cookie file is newly generated and filled with credentials as I can see.

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I found that just deleting the component and re-installing it didn’t work, the only way to get it to work was to manual run the command as in the post I linked too. I find I have to do it about every 3/4 weeks.

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Solution for me

  1. Deleted, then installed location sharing lib in virtual enviroment
    pip install --upgrade locationsharinglib
  2. Manually upgraded the google maps lib from the author
    srv\homeassistant\lib\python3.5\site-packages\homeassistant\components\device_tracker\google_maps.py
  3. Edited google_maps.py and overwrite the password section to my password and username.
  4. Deleted cookies file from .homeassistant
    .google_maps_location_sharing.cookies

And restarted HA (deleting cookie file was not enough, had to upgrade everything to the same version)

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the problem is with the function that returns all people,
it returns shared people + authenticated person:
people = self.get_shared_people() + [self.get_authenticated_person()]

the problem with that is the authenticated person returns None at array index [13] which fails it,
to fix it updated google_maps.py to use get_shared_people instead of get_all_people