iCloud3 v3 iDevice Tracker - Version 3

gcobb321 · January 18, 2021, 4:50pm

@Snuffy2
What is your configuration.yaml or config_ic3.yaml?

Snuffy2 · January 18, 2021, 5:03pm

configuration.yaml

[...]
device_tracker:
  - platform: icloud3
    username: my_appleid
    password: my_appleid_password
    event_log_card_directory: 'www/community/icloud3'
[...]

config_ic3.yaml

devices:
  - device_name: my_iphone
    email: my_appleid
    name: my_name
    iosapp_suffix: '_app'
  - device_name: wifes_iphone
    noiosapp: true
    name: wifes_name
  - device_name: sons_iphone
    noiosapp: true
    name: sons_name

gcobb321 · January 18, 2021, 5:14pm

@Snuffy2
You can set the devices to track to the other house in config_ic3.yaml using the track_other_zone parameter. Using that, it will track the ‘other_house’ and the ‘home’ zone

devices:
  - device_name: my_iphone
    email: my_appleid
    name: my_name
    iosapp_suffix: '_app'
  - device_name: wifes_iphone
    noiosapp: true
    name: wifes_name
    track_other_zone: other_house
  - device_name: sons_iphone
    noiosapp: true
    name: sons_name
    track_other_zone: other_house

One issue is not using the iOS App on the other devices. You will not get zone enter/exit and any location update triggers from the iOS App. When you leave a zone, the exit is not recognized until the next polling interval which could be 2-hours later. See here for more info.

swa72 · January 18, 2021, 5:33pm

I could not find script.gary_leaves_zone in the example docs. Also could you please provide your code for input_boolean.ha_started_flag in the example docs. Thanks, Stefan.

Snuffy2 · January 18, 2021, 8:31pm

Thanks for the clarifications. I had missed the info in the documentation that you linked to.

As for track_other_zone, I had tried that previously and again when you mentioned it and I can’t seem to get it to work. It always throws an error.

iCloud3 Error decoding `/config/config_ic3.yaml` parameters > The following parameters can not be handled: track_other_zone: other_house

I’ll private message you the actual log and config files with the real names as well.

gcobb321 · January 18, 2021, 10:45pm

#swa72
It’s in Chapter 3.2 Sample Automations & Scripts here

gcobb321 · January 19, 2021, 5:26pm

There is a bug handling the unit_of_measurement: km parameter when it is specified in config_ic3.yaml and occurs when iCloud3 is restarted using Event Log > Actions > Restart iCloud3. The ‘km’ is displayed correctly on the screen but the value is the miles value, not the km value.

This does not happen if:

the unit_of_measurement: km is specified in the configuration.yaml file
the unit_of_measurement: km is specified in the config-ic3 file and iCloud3 is restarted by restarting HA instead of using Event Log > Actions > Restart iCloud3

This has been fixed in v2.3.1 that is available in the v2.3.1 Development Directory here.

swa72 · January 22, 2021, 8:48pm

I had checked that, just overlooked that gary_arrives_home, gary_leaves_home,gary_leaves_zone are all automations, while gary_status, gary_arrives_home and notify_gary_iphone are scripts. The flag input_boolean.ha_started_flag is used in these scripts - but the docs do not show how it is defined.

swa72 · January 22, 2021, 9:13pm

Here is another question: for some reason or the other my equivalent of script notify_gary_iphone does show only (mobile app) on my phone - no title and no message. Any idea, why?

notify_swaiphone:
  alias: 'Send Message to swa'
  sequence:
    - service: notify.mobile_app_swaiphone
      data_template:
        title: "{{ title }} (mobile_app)"
        message: "{{ message }}"

The section of the automation reads

  action:
  - service: script.notify_swaiphone
    data:
      data_template:
        title: Dammit
        message: 'Zone: foo --> foo , Distance: 1234'

It seems the parameters don’t get passed to the script.

gcobb321 · January 23, 2021, 1:04pm

@swa72
I would look in the documentation of the iOS app. It’s been a while since I’ve been there but there are examples of how to use the notify service. There might also be some info on the iOS app forum.

bastero · January 23, 2021, 8:47pm

Thanks @gcobb321 for the fix!!

swa72 · January 24, 2021, 4:57pm

Thanks for the hint. Googled a bit and found a solution in

  action:
  - service: script.notify_swaiphone
    data:
      title: Dammit
      message: 'Zone: foo --> foo , Distance: 1234'

Note that there is no data_template.

CO_4X4 · January 25, 2021, 7:29pm

@gcobb321 I wanted to take a moment to thank you for this outstanding extension! It’s so much better than what is cooked into HA right now by miles (travel time TBD ).

Do you know what kind of impact the refreshes have on the battery of an iPhone? It seems like since I got this up and running that the iPhones drain significantly faster.

Thank you again!

CO_4X4 · January 26, 2021, 4:39pm

Does the Travel Time sensor represent how far away “as the crow flies” or does it use intelligence to determine the travel time based on the fastest route along roads? I know this is a feed from Apple and not calculated by iCloud3, I’m just wondering if anyone knows the answer to that.

gcobb321 · January 26, 2021, 5:16pm

@CO_4X4
Travel Time is not returned from Apple but returned from the Waze, along with the zone_distance value. The value is determined by passing the home (or other zone) gps coordinates and the gps coordinates from iCloud Location Services to Waze.

See a description about Waze here for more information.

MoPepettes · February 8, 2021, 1:24pm

Hi, thanks for your app.

I’ve got an error in the log, for the 2 devices i’ve declared.
iCloud3 Setup Error > iphonedeyohann > The iOS App device_tracker entity was not found in the Entity Registry for this device.
What did i miss?

MoPepettes · February 8, 2021, 3:33pm

Ok, i’ve read again the docs and found this:

The following parameters must be in the HA configuration.yaml file

    username/password
    tracking_method: iosapp (if using the iOS App tracking method, not needed for normal operations)
    create_sensors
    exclude_sensors
    entity_registry_file_name
    config_ic3_file_name

Here is my configuration.yaml:

#interdiction du log icloud3 dans HA History
recorder:
  purge_keep_days: 3
  exclude:
    entities:
      - sensor.icloud3_event_log

#paramètres pour chaque device surveillé par icloud3
device_tracker:
  - platform: icloud3
    username: xxxxx
    password: xxxx
#exclude_sensors: batstat,lzonn,lzont,name

  - platform: icloud3
    username: xxxx
    password: xxxxx
#exclude_sensors: batstat,lzonn,lzont,name

I don’t know how to write the missing parameters because the docs shows an example with only those params.
Thanks for your help.

gcobb321 · February 8, 2021, 3:34pm

@MoPepettes
Information about this can be found in the iCloud3 documentation in 1.6-configuring-starting-icloud and in 1.4-setting-up-iosapp.

All the other parameters can be specified in the config_ic3.yaml file described in 1.6-configuring-starting-icloud3.

MoPepettes · February 8, 2021, 3:59pm

i’m sorry, i’ve read several times but i don’t know what to do.

Here is the errors:

I’ve activated those params:


# --Track Devices Parameters-------------------------------
devices:
  - device_name: iPhone de Yohann
    name: Yohann
    email: xxxxx
#    picture: gary.png
  - device_name: iPhone XR Christelle
    name: Christelle
    email: xxxxx
#    picture: lillian.png

#    noiosapp: False
    iosapp_suffix: _app
#    iosapp_entity: gary_iphone_app
#    zone: warehouse

event_log_card_directory: 'www/custom_cards'

I thought the iosapp_suffix would resolved the errors but no luck.

gcobb321 · February 8, 2021, 4:06pm

@MoPepettes
The device_name parameters are incorrect. They need to be:

iphone_de_yohann, not iPhone de Yohann
iphone_xr_christelle, not iPhone XR Christelle

The spaces in the name are removed instead of converting them to ‘_’.

I was updating HACS to v2.3.1 but will make a change to accept the values you specified before I do the update.