Find my iDevices!

Hey Benjamin, i'm using the latest version of the plugin and using it in a trigger to send a message to my phone when the washing is finished. That part works great, but i keep getting an email from iCloud to say a sound has been played on my phone.

Can that be turned off ?

Hey Benjamin, i'm using the latest version of the plugin and using it in a trigger to send a message to my phone when the washing is finished. That part works great, but i keep getting an email from iCloud to say a sound has been played on my phone.

Can that be turned off ?

What version of iOS are you using? With v5, FMIP would allow you to select to play a sound or not. With v6, FMIP doesn't give you that option... So I need to do some testing, but it appears (at least at first glance) that Apple has decided to always play a sound...

- Benjamin

Benjamin, running ios 6.0.1 as of the update the other day

Benjamin, running ios 6.0.1 as of the update the other day

Yes, then that appears to be a change in iOS behavior, and I don't see any way to turn it off...

- Ben

I’m currently testing out Find My iDevices to see if it meets my needs, and had two (hopefully easy) questions.

One, is there a set of example scripts somewhere to use with the plugin? I’d like to use the value of DistanceAway in an Applescript. I tried coding it as a variable at first, then realized it is a state...I’m not quite sure how to handle that without an example. I basically need the iPhone location to set a variable to one of three values: A (distance less than X), B (distance between X and Y), and C (distance greater than Y), and would prefer it to do this based on one trigger rather than three...which I think will require a script of some type.

Two, I’d like to make my alarms trigger the plugin automatically to check and see if an “intruder” is me. My best guess is that I would have the alarm (the trigger) always (the condition) take the action of Plugin/Find My iDevices/Update iDevice Status. I would then "add new" to add a second action, and make that my usual applescript sequence, which would run only after a short (two to three minute?) delay. Am I approaching that right?

Thank you for your help,

--Cliff

I upgraded to Indigo 6.0 today and noticed the following error from v1.71 of Find my iDevices. Not sure if it's related to the upgrade or not:

Nov 18, 2012 5:12:00 PM
Enabling plugin "Find My IDevices 1.71"
Starting plugin "Find My IDevices 1.71" (pid 2089)
Started plugin "Find My IDevices 1.71"
Find My IDevices Find My iDevice Plugin Loaded...
Find My IDevices Registering Find My iDevice - Bill's iPhone (1523106669)
Find My IDevices Done registering Device ID
Find My IDevices Registering Find My iDevice - Cindy's iPhone (321666843)
Find My IDevices Done registering Device ID
Find My IDevices Done registering Apple ID
Find My IDevices Done registering Apple ID
Find My IDevices Done registering Apple ID
Find My IDevices Registering Find My iDevice - Station 2 iPhone (927485599)
Find My IDevices Done registering Device ID
Find My IDevices Retrieving location data
Find My IDevices Locating - Bill's iPhone, (Will's iPhone)
Find My IDevices running with (3, 300) and None

...brief period of time...then this....

Find My IDevices Error plugin runConcurrentThread function returned or failed (will attempt again in 10 seconds)
Find My IDevices Retrieving location data
Find My IDevices Locating - Cindy's iPhone, (Cindy's iPhone)
Find My IDevices running with (1, 300) and None
Find My IDevices location: {'latitude': 40.dxxxx, 'timestamp': datetime.datetime(2012, 11, 18, 17, 30, 1), 'longitude': -78.xxxx, 'accuracy': 10.0}
Find My IDevices testing
Find My IDevices Error Error in plugin execution runConcurrentThread:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "plugin.py", line 948, in runConcurrentThread
File "plugin.py", line 847, in run_search_for_idevices
File "plugin.py", line 701, in fetch_updated_MobileMe_Locations
File "plugin.py", line 782, in process_device
<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>: key TestType not found in dict

I’m currently testing out Find My iDevices to see if it meets my needs, and had two (hopefully easy) questions.

One, is there a set of example scripts somewhere to use with the plugin? I’d like to use the value of DistanceAway in an Applescript. I tried coding it as a variable at first, then realized it is a state...I’m not quite sure how to handle that without an example. I basically need the iPhone location to set a variable to one of three values: A (distance less than X), B (distance between X and Y), and C (distance greater than Y), and would prefer it to do this based on one trigger rather than three...which I think will require a script of some type.

Two, I’d like to make my alarms trigger the plugin automatically to check and see if an “intruder” is me. My best guess is that I would have the alarm (the trigger) always (the condition) take the action of Plugin/Find My iDevices/Update iDevice Status. I would then "add new" to add a second action, and make that my usual applescript sequence, which would run only after a short (two to three minute?) delay. Am I approaching that right?

Cliff, for DistanceAway, use the Action Collection plugin, to copy that state into a variable for your Applescript. But if your making a trigger, you can just write the trigger against the Device State directly (use Device State Changed, and choose the device, and DistanceAway). Or alternatively, make a Map location, and test Distance Away from Location in the trigger....

But yes, if you want to test 3 distances from one trigger, you'll need to either use Python or Applescript to write a script to test it.

For your second, yes.... That would be the right way, but the poll could take a bit.... With Find My iPhone's web interface, the time it takes to poll, varies a lot.....

Benjamin,

I am running 1.71 in two locations, and am seeing the same behavior. FMiD works fine when polling on a regular interval, but when I tell it to poll, via a Trigger or from the Menu, it doesn't seem to poll. I don't see anything when debug is enabled, and after 3 minutes I don't see any updates.

Is this a known bug or am I doing something strange?

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  Reloading plugin "Find My IDevices 1.71"
  Stopping plugin "Find My IDevices 1.71" (pid 268)
  Find My IDevices Debug             # 1 - Device Name - Kathy Pattison’s   UID - xxxxxxxx~      Account - kathy@xxxxx
  Find My IDevices Debug             # 1 - Device Name - Kathy Pattison’s   UID - xxxxxxxx~      Account - kathy@xxxx
  Plugin "Find My IDevices" disconnected
  Starting plugin "Find My IDevices 1.71" (pid 9708)
  Plugin "Find My IDevices" connected

[edit November 19, 2012 6:52 PM] I am running Indigo 5.1.6

Benjamin,

I am running 1.71 in two locations, and am seeing the same behavior. FMiD works fine when polling on a regular interval, but when I tell it to poll, via a Trigger or from the Menu, it doesn't seem to poll. I don't see anything when debug is enabled, and after 3 minutes I don't see any updates.

Is this a known bug or am I doing something strange?

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  Reloading plugin "Find My IDevices 1.71"
  Stopping plugin "Find My IDevices 1.71" (pid 268)
  Find My IDevices Debug             # 1 - Device Name - Kathy Pattison’s   UID - xxxxxxxx~      Account - kathy@xxxxx
  Find My IDevices Debug             # 1 - Device Name - Kathy Pattison’s   UID - xxxxxxxx~      Account - kathy@xxxx
  Plugin "Find My IDevices" disconnected
  Starting plugin "Find My IDevices 1.71" (pid 9708)
  Plugin "Find My IDevices" connected

[edit November 19, 2012 6:52 PM] I am running Indigo 5.1.6

I am researching this.... Hopefully I'll have something shortly...

Hi Benjamin, noob here and i apologize if this is a dumb question... i am running indigo 6 beta 2 and installed v1.71 of Find my iDevices. When i restart the server it does not display a config dialog for me to enter my icloud login info. When i select "configure" from the plugin menu i only get a screen to select update frequency and lat/lon.

i believe i followed the installation instructions (and i even tried changing /indigo 5/ to /indigo 5/ in plugin.py in case the problem was that i had to /indigo 5/ directories because i am new with indigo 6) but that was not it. i am obviously doing something wrong. can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

log shows:

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tarted plugin "Find My IDevices 1.71"
  Find My IDevices                Find My iDevice Plugin Loaded...
  Find My IDevices                   Retrieving location data
  Find My IDevices                   Done Locating all iDevices
  WebServer client connected
  WebServer                       started on port 8176 -- digest authentication enabled
  WebServer                       loaded plugin "Find My iDevices"
  WebServer                       enabled browser access to plugin path "plugins/Find-My-iDevices/css"
  WebServer                       enabled browser access to plugin path "plugins/Find-My-iDevices/images"
  WebServer                       enabled browser access to plugin path "plugins/Find-My-iDevices/js"
  WebServer                       enabled browser access to plugin path "plugins/Find-My-iDevices/static"


Hi Benjamin, noob here and i apologize if this is a dumb question... i am running indigo 6 beta 2 and installed v1.71 of Find my iDevices. When i restart the server it does not display a config dialog for me to enter my icloud login info. When i select "configure" from the plugin menu i only get a screen to select update frequency and lat/lon.

i believe i followed the installation instructions (and i even tried changing /indigo 5/ to /indigo 5/ in plugin.py in case the problem was that i had to /indigo 5/ directories because i am new with indigo 6) but that was not it. i am obviously doing something wrong. can you point me in the right direction?

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tarted plugin "Find My IDevices 1.71"
  Find My IDevices                Find My iDevice Plugin Loaded...
  Find My IDevices                   Retrieving location data
  Find My IDevices                   Done Locating all iDevices
  WebServer client connected
  WebServer                       started on port 8176 -- digest authentication enabled
  WebServer                       loaded plugin "Find My iDevices"
  WebServer                       enabled browser access to plugin path "plugins/Find-My-iDevices/css"
  WebServer                       enabled browser access to plugin path "plugins/Find-My-iDevices/images"
  WebServer                       enabled browser access to plugin path "plugins/Find-My-iDevices/js"
  WebServer                       enabled browser access to plugin path "plugins/Find-My-iDevices/static"


You need to create an Apple ID Login device, and create a device for each iDevice you wish to track...

Steps to Create an Apple ID Login device
Click New Device
Change the Type to Plugin
Change the plugin to ”Find My IDevices”
Change Model to ”Apple ID Login information (For MobileMe & iCloud)”
Fill in your Apple ID username and password

Steps to Create an iDevice Record
Create an iDevice Record
Click New Device
Change the Type to Plugin
Change the plugin to ”Find My IDevices”
Change Model to ”iDevice Registration”
Choose the Apple ID Associated with the iDevice
Choose the iDevice name
Please note: If this is a new device, the iDevice name will not show up, instead it’ll prompt you to close the device. Close the Device record, and exit back to Indigo’s main window. (Make sure to save, and not cancel). This is due to new device’s not having an Indigo device number until the device is initially saved…. FMID needs that Device number.

If necessary, Re-open the iDevice record, and choose the iDevice name.

thanks.

i have setup the 2 devices and the Login device works, but the iPhone device populates only device number (2) and AppleID (correctly) fields. i confirmed icloud has a location for my iPhone so not sure what i am still missing.

when i open and close the iphone device, the event log shows:

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  Find My IDevices                    Registering Find My iDevice - mda xxxxxxx (3xxxxxxx)
  Find My IDevices                Done registering Device ID


thanks.

i have setup the 2 devices and the Login device works, but the iPhone device populates only device number (2) and AppleID (correctly) fields. i confirmed icloud has a location for my iPhone so not sure what i am still missing.

when i open and close the iphone device, the event log shows:

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  Find My IDevices                    Registering Find My iDevice - mda xxxxxxx (3xxxxxxx)
  Find My IDevices                Done registering Device ID


From the plugin menu, choose restart Find My iDevice. It sounds like FMID has not polled the FMIP service. Most of that data is gathered from Apple's servers....

- Benjamin

worked. thanks!

Hey Benjamin.

First off, great plugin! Thanks for making it available.

I'm using FMID version 1.7.1 on Indigo 6 beta 3. Occasionally I'll see errors like the one below in the Indigo log

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2012-12-10 09:16:08   Find My IDevices      Retrieving location data
2012-12-10 09:16:08   Find My IDevices   Locating - ePhone, (ePhone)
2012-12-10 09:16:08   Find My IDevices   running with (2, 300) and None
2012-12-10 09:16:08   Find My IDevices   location: {'latitude': 36.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, 'timestamp': datetime.datetime(2012, 12, 10, 8, 46, 10), 'longitude': -119.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, 'accuracy': 10.0}
2012-12-10 09:16:09   Find My IDevices         Done locating - ePhone
2012-12-10 09:16:10   Find My IDevices   Locating - nPhone, (nPhone)
2012-12-10 09:16:10   Find My IDevices   running with (2, 300) and None
2012-12-10 09:16:10   Find My IDevices   location: {'latitude': 36.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, 'timestamp': datetime.datetime(2012, 12, 10, 8, 48, 11), 'longitude': -119.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, 'accuracy': 65.0}
2012-12-10 09:16:10   Find My IDevices Error   Error in plugin execution runConcurrentThread:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "plugin.py", line 948, in runConcurrentThread
 File "plugin.py", line 847, in run_search_for_idevices
 File "plugin.py", line 701, in fetch_updated_MobileMe_Locations
 File "plugin.py", line 754, in process_device
 File "plugin.py", line 673, in fetch_geoaddress_from_lat_long
 File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen
 File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 387, in open
 File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 498, in http_response
 File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 425, in error
 File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 360, in _call_chain
 File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 506, in http_error_default
<class 'urllib2.HTTPError'>: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error

2012-12-10 09:16:10   Find My IDevices Error   plugin runConcurrentThread function returned or failed (will attempt again in 10 seconds)

(x's substituted above in location for privacy). It looks as though the HTTPError exception isn't being caught. I'm sure the HTTP error has little or nothing to do with the plugin, but I thought you might want to see the error so you could write in an exception to catch it so it doesn't crash the runConcurrentThread thread every time an HTTP error is encountered.