Nest invalid password

Configuration
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I tried to setup the new nest component via the directions on the site Google Nest - Home Assistant.

When I got almost all the way done at this step:

Once Home Assistant is started, a configurator will pop up asking you to log into your Nest account and copy a PIN code into Home Assistant.

I hit the configure link and accepted the permissions via the Nest website but instead of being given a PIN i was redirected to the URL that I had put in the

The description, users, urls can all be anything you want.

step plus a string of characters. I grabbed the string and thought that may be my PIN…it was not because I am getting the error:

Login Attempt Failed

And none of the nest related sensors/cameras are working. The dialog via home assistant to configure is now gone so I’m not sure how to re-attempt/fix this problem. Any ideas?

3

Ya I went through all the steps but the last one didn’t act as was expected so not sure where to go from here.

4

tried to remove the component from the config and restart the auth process but got the exact same result. What’s going on?

5

When setting up the “new product” in your nest dev account it asks for 2 urls. One is for your product, the other is the referral URL that it redirects to after correctly logging in. If you leave the second URL blank, it will instead provide a pin number which is what is needed to set up nest with HA.

6

Thank you. How do I now get that pin into HA? I know longer have the card to configure it on the gui and I don’t see from documentation where I can put it in the config. Thanks!

7

Delete nest.conf from your .homeassistant directory and restart Hass.

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Excellent! All good to go now. Much appreciated.

9

Hey Guys, I followed the same instructions and get the invalid config error -
16-12-14 00:05:50 homeassistant.bootstrap: Invalid config for [nest]: [client_id] is an invalid option for [nest]. Check: nest->nest->client_id. (See /var/opt/homeassistant/configuration.yaml:106). Please check the docs at https://home-assistant.io/components/nest/

Any help much appreciated.

10

I checked a few other posts and sample nest configs and changed from client_id & product_id to username & password. and is now working. Not sure why the component setup guidelines are using client_id.

11

after blowing up my Pi/HA setup I restarted and used the Al in One HA install, and…
nest:
client_id: CLIENT_ID
client_secret: CLIENT_SECRET

worked perfectly as described in the component setup guide.