Thanks, that is why I thought if the update can not somehow be more explicitly triggered automatically.
If I trigger the phone location manually via the icloud3 action menu, it had updated correctly in my observed examples, even if multiple regular update triggers did not do that before.
I guess it is not a coincidence that just when I pressed the button the gps accuracy had improved or similar. So can’t icloud3 e.g. also trigger this explicit update if iOS app state and icloud3 state differ for some time, as then obviously one of them needs to be synced with the other one?
Anyone know if the GPS sensitivity of the integration can be tweaked? Having the occasional random blip where the tracker decides I’m at home and I’m really not. Figuring it must be GPS sensitivity as home and work are 145m away from each other! It’s not normally a problem AT ALL but then occasionally it…is?!
out of interest.
Is there any reason why this integration doesnt get merged with the officie HA icloud integration?
It is obviously far better and way better supported.
A similar thing happend half a year ago with the fritz integration and the merge with the unofficial fritz_box_tools integration.
@FaserF Working on it. See the post #361 here that I added Jan 20th, 7 days ago about adding it as an integration. Stay tuned…
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Is there a way to use icloud for certain devices and mobile app device tracker for other devices? I have this working with my icloud devices, but can’t get it work with the app devices trackers. What is the yaml?
I am being challenged by the stationary zone. Are there more details on how this is generated and if it is possible to ignore/modify the zone location and radius?
My iphone_stationary setting is about 2 miles from my house and I cannot figure out why. Everything else seems to work just fine. (Well there is one minor thing, one of my kid’s phones show up as being in “College” and the other shows up being in “COLLEGE” - they both go to the same university and the name of the zone I set up is “COLLEGE”.)
But mainly the stationary_zone is driving me a little crazy and something I wish I could either ignore or just correct, with the first step being able to better understand how this is created and the values set.
Thanks,
PS - this is my absolute favorite Integration.
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Thank you for the quick response.
I’ve been using iCloud3 for a few days now, and my iphone keeps going into a PAUSED state. Nothing I try can get it out of this state except for restarting iCloud3, which is annoying. This normally happens when I’m in a location for an extended period of time, like at home. Leaving home (or what ever location I’m in) doesn’t start updating.
Have I missed something in the setup? I followed all the instructions.
Looking at the log just shows something like Old Location 1 and discarded locations 400 or some other huge number.
Thanks in advance.
I recently configured iCloud3 and pretty much let everything by default. I still find myself receiving 3-5 emails per day from Apple saying that I’m using my email to login into a device bla bla bla. Is there a way for me not to received these email using iCloud3? I though about using an app-specific password, although when doing that, iCloud3 is telling me that Username/Password combo is invalid… Any pointers?
Thank you.
@FrForget
Unfortunately, there is no way to stop the emails I know of. I set up a filter in mail that deletes them and bypasses the inbox. Also, App specific passwords do not work with Python programs running under HA
Keeping a single thread for all this information seems appropriate, but someone can correct me if that’s not the case. I’ve read through this and tried to get icloud3 working, but I may not be understanding some of the concepts correctly.
I have defined the event log card as a resource in the Dashboards Add-on as:
‘/local/custom_cards/icloud-event-log-card.js’
Physically in the filesystem it is copied to:
‘/config/www/custom_cards/icloud-event-log-card.js’
But step 4 of the process is a bit vague on how to add a card based on this resource. I looked through the documentation in HA for how to add a custom lovelace card in the developers area, but that seems way more in-depth that this should be. Referring back to the instructions won’t really help, because I’ve read through them about 20 times, took a break, and then read through them 20 more times before getting frustrated enough to start learning Python so I could dig through the source code to figure out how this whole process works (since I already know javascript). I’m still not understanding it, so obviously I’m missing something obvious. Since this is running in many other setups, I’m 100% sure this is on me, but I just can’t figure out where I’m going wrong.
This is how I’ve added the card to lovelace:
entity: sensor.icloud3_event_log
icon: mdi:information-outline
title: iCloud Event Log
type: custom:icloud3-event-log-card
Anyone else having issues with iCloud authentication / device tracker setup since about an hour ago? I got several notifications about someone trying to log into my account and denied them as I didn’t thing it was iCloud3. Now device tracker won’t complete setup on restart.
Yes, I’m having the same issue.
@nabs @fenty17 looks like a wider icloud outage: Apple - Support - System Status
im seeing issues using Find My on my phone as well
Ahhh. Thanks @grahamr. Should have checked that. Will keep an eye and hopefully it’ll come back to life before too long.
@GaryK If you don’t mind, where did you put that? In the configuration.yaml? Is there any section defined above that? I tried putting lovelace:, but that gave me an error. If I try to edit the Dashboard and add Card with that information I get “Custom element doesn’t exist: icloud3-event-log-card.” It seems obvious HA isn’t able to “see” the icloud3-event-log-card, but it is added as a resource in the Dashboard Configuration area.
Been trying to get this working, but for some reason all i see is Home as the status for both devices (see below). :
I see that it recognized the devices by when signing in and i got the prompt to authenticate via 2 facctor on my phone (which i did). i am wondering if the error at the top of this is what is causing the issue?
Yes, i know i have to clean up all the old dead devices in there, but i am just too lazy…
In my configuration.yaml file i have the following:
#iCloud3 config
device_tracker:
- platform: icloud3
username: !secret icloud3_user
password: !secret icloud3_pass
and in the config_ic3_.yaml i have this:
devices:
- device_name: ida_s_fancy_phone
name: ida
email: [email protected]
- device_name: seb_trece
name: Seb
email: [email protected]
Any ideas?