WTH iCloud=dead?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" 2022
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So, as many people may do!, I use iCloud to track a couple of devices to use in HA. To my surprize, the actual integration is completely broken due to incomplete handling of re-authenticating every … weeks. After a certain time of worry-free use of the integration (although getting an email every day is an annoyance), Apple requires a re-confirmation this access is ok.

If I say ok, I get a code to enter in HA (which I can’t)

If I say not ok, after several attempts the HA integration tells me to re-authenticate.
If I do I can enter my credentials and Apple starts nagging again about entering that 6-digit code again.

There seems to be a stale github topic for this, and I see people considering to start using the (stale?) icloud3 integration that is on HACS, but come on… a platform that is so common?

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Check out iCloud3

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See the last sentence in my original post

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Same thing happens to me. What I do is I delete .storage / icloud folder and redo everything. As far as I know, that’s all I can do. iCloud is more convenient than iCloud3. I wish somebody would fix this. I am thinking probably with generating app specific password that iCloud offers.

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Icloud3 is not"stale".

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