Authenticate officially via Google

chrisjshull / homebridge-nest

Nest plugin for HomeBridge

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Authenticate officially via Google #638

Closed twcrews closed 7 months ago

twcrews commented 7 months ago

As it stands, the plugin is using a circumvention method to access a user's Google account. This is a flaky and usually temporary solution at best.

I imagine this has been tried, but I couldn't find any issues related to it: have we tried to use Google's native third-party app auth process? Or at least something like app-specific passwords?

Unless there's something specific to the Nest platform that blocks this, I'd be happy to give it a shot myself and send up a PR.

louismcohen commented 7 months ago

Home Assistant uses the proper Nest login configuration using real OAuth app credentials. It's somewhat cumbersome to set up (I did it the other week), but it is 100% legit:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/nest/#configuration

edlucky1 commented 7 months ago

Additional temperature sensors appear to not be supported using this method. Not sure if there are other devices or functionality not supported beyond that.

twcrews commented 7 months ago

Dropping this because, as mentioned, it would break support for temperature sensors.