iCloud3 v3 iDevice Tracker - Version 3 Prerelease version is now available

pauly7300 · December 22, 2022, 5:44pm

Please add me as well Gary!

engeles20 · December 23, 2022, 9:16pm

Did I miss the beta release?

gcobb321 · December 23, 2022, 9:40pm

@engeles20 Not at all. I’m taking the first a little slow to work through some issues. I hope to upload beta 3 tomorrow (Sat 12/24) that fixes some bugs, changes a few things and changes the migration a bit to avoid migrating old/not tracked/unused devices that seem to be creating problems.

Keep track of the releases on the iCloud3_v3 Issues Repository here.

Plus, I have company in town over the holidays.

poudenes · December 24, 2022, 8:26am

Create some automations on them… so they can go there own way haha
Just joking…

Enjoy the holidays!!!

engeles20 · December 24, 2022, 11:52pm

I’m alerted when the in laws are nearby

gcobb321 · December 25, 2022, 8:18am

I should add that to the list of useable items in the feature list. Enjoy the holidays.

poudenes · December 31, 2022, 9:33am

Hey Gary,

How do I add the new beta version sensor.icloud3_event_log to dashboard. By old one is still there and its empty … Can’t find it on Github also.

gcobb321 · December 31, 2022, 9:57am

@poudenes When iCloud3 start, it checks the icloud3/event-log-card.js file version with the one in the diretory on the Event Log configuration screen. If a new version is available, it copies the continents to that directory and puts that info in the event log (which you can not see) so I should also issue a notification or a log file warning message. It also checks the Lovelace resources to make sure it is in the list (Devices ^ Settings > Dashboards > 3-dots > resources.

Clear the browsers cache. Then Refresh the screen a couple of times.
Make sure the Lovelace resources is correct. I noticed a little while ago that it might be in there twice, one with a local/custom_cards/… and also with a local/icloud3/… Delete the one you are not using. (This is something I need to investigate),
If it was wrong in #2, clear the cache and refresh

Did you just do an update?
Are the headings displayed but not the activity or is it completely blank?

poudenes · December 31, 2022, 10:25am

Yeppppp (storage wars) its always the cache… How stupid can someone be to forget that option haha

GaryK · December 31, 2022, 9:22pm

I saw this also. Removed the local/icloud3/resource. I’m running a manual install. Still showing .0b5 in the Event Log.

gcobb321 · December 31, 2022, 9:43pm

The icloud3-event-log-card.js lovelace card has it’s own version (right now v3.0.1) which is not related to the iC3 Integration (v3.0.0v5)

GaryK · December 31, 2022, 10:11pm

Thanks Gary. I’ve found the debug log very helpful.

iCloud3 Event Log > •Current Version Installed-v3.0.1
Restarting iCloud3 v3.0.0b5 > Friday, Dec 30

DerekO · January 1, 2023, 5:03pm

I’m thinking of trying the v3 beta and just wanted to check I understood the procedure correctly.

I’m already running v2.4, installed via HACS.

So, I presume that I download v3 and overwrite custom_components/icloud3. Then, I restart and add the iCloud3 integration via the Settings → Integrations page, and go through the configurator. Once that’s all done, restart, and then remove the old yaml configurations.

Sound about right?

Thanks

gcobb321 · January 1, 2023, 5:24pm

@DerekO See info about using the beta here

engeles20 · January 4, 2023, 10:44pm

I’ve been using beta and so far i am enjoying it but i have come across two questions.

1). once i setup the icloud3 device should i keep both the original device (the one that the ios app created) and the icloud3 device under a persons tracked devices? “Select the devices that belong to this person.” (under settings-people)…or should i only use the icloud3 device to now track? i notice sometimes on the map 2 trackers show up for the same person and the icloud3 one is the one that updated first

2). if a person doesnt have the ios app install can i not get zone enter/leave triggers using just the icloud3 ?

gcobb321 · January 5, 2023, 12:10am

Ic3 uses the iOS app and iCloud data so the iOS app is not needed in the people settings.
The iOS app provides the zone enter/ exit triggers. No iOS app=no triggers. A short inzone interval (15-minutes) can be used to check the phones location and determine if it is still in the zone within 15-minutes of leaving it

engeles20 · January 5, 2023, 4:01am

Thank you for the helpful response. So as I now understand I would have to make an automation using the state change and then using old state and new state triggers

gcobb321 · January 5, 2023, 6:28am

@engeles20 See sample automations here in the iCloud3 v3 docs

brucep · January 12, 2023, 12:44am

Sorry if this has been addressed elsewhere but I haven’t found an answer yet… I’m fairly new to HA and I’ve gotten most of icloud3 working it seems, but I’m having trouble getting the logging to work. I installed version 2.4 of icloud3 from HACS, and this is the version of HAOS I’m running:

Home Assistant 2023.1.2
Supervisor 2022.12.1
Operating System 9.4
Frontend 20230104.0 - latest

I tried setting up the Event Log as described in the documentation, but my HA log just shows errors that include:

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/config/www/custom_cards’
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘/config/www/custom_cards/icloud3-event-log-card.js’

If I ssh into my HA server and search for directories like www or custom_cards I don’t find anything. Is there some dependency I’m missing? Do I need to manually create /config/www and /config/www/custom_cards? Or am I missing something else entirely?

gcobb321 · January 12, 2023, 8:10am

@brucep Yes, you have to manually create /www/custom_cards directory.