Error 401

[TomsnCo]

Hello, Since today I have a 401 error on my flows, The only log is: { status: false, code: 401, data: null },

[PfisterDaniel]

Yes i have the same problem. The error comes from the Apple Service, i can't fix it at the moment... i hope tomorrow works again.

[acaranta]

mmmh tried re-entering password and/or changing to "app specific password" ... that didn't help 🙈 could they possibly have locked us out of their API ? 😩

[dhanzseros]

I hope they haven't locked. This is the only one node to get datas from my phone....

[brinkgit]

Same problem since 5-10 18:03 (Amsterdam time). Update to version 1.1.8 did not help (was stil on 1.1.5 or 6)

[hijamie32]

I am getting a similar issue but Code 404 on two separate accounts. Are they linked otherwise will open a new issue?

Thanks

[OmegaQuest]

Getting same error, 401 on all Apple Locate Input Nodes since October 5th @ around 11:15 am CST. I also tried upgrading to 1.1.8, recreating the Nodes from Scratch, and none of that solve the issue.

[brinkgit]

Seems that error 401 has something tot do with old certificates? But I don't know how to install new certificates or how to make this app loading a new certificate.

[PfisterDaniel]

No, certificates have nothing to do with it. Currently, the node is not working. Probably due to a change from Apple.

[Michl7]

The openHAB icloud binding also stopped working. https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/13282 Looks like a change or problem on apples side.

[rmds2000]

Did anyone find a solution for the node-red-contrib-apple-find-me error message 401 - Not authorised

[rmds2000]

Really sad it was a good node

[hijamie32]

I don't know about the Find Me API's as the ICloud3 integration is still working well?

[brinkgit]

Find-my-iPhone does (as far as I know) not need 2FA. On the iCloud site you can start find-my-phone without the 2FA code.

[edautz]

The Homeassistant ICloud and ICloud3 integrations are working well, also after this problem has occurred. As far I know these are the only solutions that remain.

[na-am]

i modified my flows to "owntracks" so all my dashboards and logics are working again (Node-red, influxdb, grafana) https://apps.apple.com/de/app/owntracks/id692424691

pros:

• radius per region
• much more infos, see https://owntracks.org/booklet/tech/json/

cons:

• must be installed on every device
• mqtt broker needed
• eventually battery consumption

[MikeJ67]

Has anyone another way to read the battery status of an ipad from within Node-Red? I don't need location, only the battery-value of that one device (an info panel on the wall, which turns its own loader power on and off. And no, shortcuts is no option)

[edautz]

Has anyone another way to read the battery status of an ipad from within Node-Red? I don't need location, only the battery-value of that one device (an info panel on the wall, which turns its own loader power on and off. And no, shortcuts is no option)

If you install Homeassistant and install ICloud (the easiest) or ICloud3 integration and install within Nodered node-red-contrib-home-assistant-websocket you can readout the Homeassistant sensors including the iCloud device battery levels, also gps positions etc. in Nodered.

[OmegaQuest]

Hope this issue gets resolved/work around soon. I dont use Homeassistant and only Node-Red and MQTT but need the GPS (Coordinates) for Family Tracking. I've tried OwnTracks but not a fan of it due to Battery Drain and an additional app that needs to be installed and maintained.

[brinkgit]

Anyone any kind of solution?

[Michl7]

Looks like they already work on the icloud binding for openhab ( https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/13282 )which also not working anymore. So i think a rework of the node needs to happen.

[xiaonan902198]

401认证报错这个问题有办法解决么？

[hazymat]

Same issue - error 401, last worked 22 days ago.

[wizy69]

same issue here, still exists 03112022. Awesome Node for Find Me Message Broadcast

[brinkgit]

Something has changed the last few days. It was '401 not authorised', now it says 'ErrorCode: -1'.

[demokedes]

Just checked right now and it is still "401 - Not authorised".

[brinkgit]

Right, it turned back on the 401 message on my system too.

[zyce78]

@PfisterDaniel, seem to be some progress over at https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/13282. If it could be of any help. Thanks for your work so far of this plugin!

[OmegaQuest]

@PfisterDaniel, Any updates on this issue?

[brinkgit]

Does anyone have any sort of solution for this? My programming skills are not good enough to solve this issue. Anyone else?

[na-am]

Does anyone have any sort of solution for this? My programming skills are not good enough to solve this issue. Anyone else?

as i mentioned two month ago "owntrack" could be a alternative or if you have an apple computer running 7/24 with Node-red (FindMe App has to be started as well) you can easily grab your devices and airtags locations with the attached Node-red flows airtags_devices.json.zip

[Kimovitzh]

There seems to be hope!

https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/issues/13282

[theAnDrO40]

If there is some interest i've got a little workaround with mqtt python icloud-home-4

[OmegaQuest]

icloud-home-4

I am, although I do not use Home Assistant and only use Node-Red and MQTT.

[theAnDrO40]

This is a python script and this can collect data from the icloud devices and with node red you can send these information into the mqtt protocol

[OmegaQuest]

This is a python script and this can collect data from the icloud devices and with node red you can send these information into the mqtt protocol

Cool, where might I find this: "icloud-home-4" script. I looked on Google with no luck.

[regissg]

The Openhab guys seem to have found a fix to rework authentication to reflect changes in iCloud API https://github.com/openhab/openhab-addons/pull/13691 any hope on the node red side?

[OmegaQuest]

I really wish this would get fixed/updated. OwnTacks is not accurate enough due to Apples 5 Min max motion updates when OwnTracks is only running in the background.

[regissg]

An easy workaround for me was to install openhab just to run the icloud binding and to add the node-red-contrib-openhab3 nodes to use the "find my phone" feature

[jjhall99]

even with 2FA and an app specific password for node-red created, this still fails. hoping not to need to go through all of the other hoops...

[davidcreager]

Ok, so from my perspective the best/cleanest working javascript icloud api repo is https://github.com/foxt/icloud.js

Couple of things to note -:

There is a bug that needs to be fixed (although it is very easy to work around) whereby, refreshing devices, needs a re-authentication. (I have hacked a solution which works and is only a few lines of code)

the approach taken to authenticating with. apple requires the entry of a 2FA if the session is untrusted (it persists the session, so it is only required occasionally) I don't really understand how apple-find me did not need this.

I plan to put a simple node-red wrapper around this (will be a long way from the apple-findme sophistication, but it will support my use case.) For the code, I am considering two approaches, either injecting the code into the node or having a standalone script with input that can be run

I would much prefer to use apple-findme, and will keep following to see if it gets fixed

Good luck and thanks sharing your work, I very much appreciate the use I got from apple-findme

If I can help with apple-find me, then please let me know

[TomsnCo]

As of now, I'm still stuck on locating my phone from nodeRED, Would you have a support to circumvent the problem encountered?

With pleasure, THANKS,