[Implemented] iDevices (iphone/ipad) location plugin

Oitzu

@p4co86 error in Hostname resolve of the “iService”, maybe due to DSL-reconnect or similar?
Does it not recover from this error?

p4co86

No. After error the device is not uodating. I will See in the Router log if a reconnect is the issues

Oitzu

@p4co8621 i don’t own an iDevice, could you try the latest version from github?
https://github.com/Oitzu/pimatic-location-plugin/tree/master

I build a try arround the offending code to catch the case.

p4co86

i will test as soon as possible, i didnt find the time jet. maybe i can test it tommorow. but i have to install it manually ?

Oitzu

@p4co86 yes, i srsly don’t want to push it to npm before anybody tested it.

p4co86

Hi guys.

After some time i get this error:

error [pimatic]: A uncaught exception occured: Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND
    at errnoException (dns.js:37:11)
    at Object.onanswer [as oncomplete] (dns.js:124:16)
From connect
    at Socket.connect (/root/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic/startup.coffee:55:29)
    at Object.exports.connect (tls.js:1361:12)
    at Agent.createConnection (https.js:79:14)
    at Agent.createSocket (http.js:1293:16)
    at Agent.addRequest (http.js:1269:23)
    at new ClientRequest (http.js:1416:16)
    at Object.exports.request (https.js:123:10)
    at postRequest (/root/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-location/node_modules/iphone-finder/lib/iphone-finder.js:32:28)
    at getPartitionHost (/root/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-location/node_modules/iphone-finder/lib/iphone-finder.js:18:5)
    at Object.module.exports.findAllDevices (/root/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-location/node_modules/iphone-finder/lib/iphone-finder.js:11:5)
    at LocationDevice.findIPhone (/root/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-location/pimatic-location.coffee:104:20)
    at null.<anonymous> (/root/pimatic-app/node_modules/pimatic-location/pimatic-location.coffee:88:12)
    at wrapper [as _onTimeout] (timers.js:258:14)
    at Timer.listOnTimeout [as ontimeout] (timers.js:110:15)
 This is most probably a bug in pimatic or in a module, please report it!

the plugin is up to date.

now i have installet npm iphone-finder and changed the login parameter.

and with this rule:

If every 2 minutes Then execute "node /root/programme/iphone-finder-marcel.js | tail | grep '^http' | wget --quiet --no-check-certificate -i - -O -"

i get no error and updating the location works very stable. with the pimatic-plugin after some days the location updating will stop and i have to restart pimatic.

does anyone have an idea what this could come from?

Thank you very much.

Oitzu

“Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND”.
Probably doing a request while no internet connection is available resulting in a DNS-Error.
I was thinking that this error would be catched.

mwittig

@Oitzu said in iDevices (iphone/ipad) location plugin:

Probably doing a request while no internet connection is available resulting in a DNS-Error.

Most likely, but it shouldn’t raise an unexpected exception! See also https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/1841/got-an-error-in-piratic-beta-and-the-log-told-me-to-tell-this. Having investigated the matter, the reason is the poor error handling of the underlying iphone-finder package. I have filed a PR on that, but I don’t expect this to be handled soon as the package has not been updated for three years. Thus, I’ll file another PR on pimatic-location to use my fork for the time being.

EDIT: https://github.com/Oitzu/pimatic-location-plugin/pull/8

EDIT2: @Oitzu I have filed another PR to get the distance update immediately called in the consttructor (as setInterval do the first update after 1 minute by default)

Oitzu

@leader21 could this maybe seen as implemented?
I’m not quite sure how well the iDevice implementation,in daily business, works (i got no iDevice myself) or how many user use it.

leader21

good question!
i have no idevice either.i would suggest to move the thread into the implemented folder.
there are no complains, so i guess it is working well…

on npmjs you can see the stats. it has been downloaded 220x in the past month. so there must be quite a few users

Oitzu

Well yes, its been downloaded 220x last month, but this also includes users that use the android implementation, and this topic is explicitly about the iDevice implementation.

@sweebee @p4co86 i know you guys are using iDevice’s. Whats your opinion on the topic?

mwittig

fyi I have moved the topic to “Feature Implemented” and forked a new topic with the recent posts https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/2608/pimatic-location-login-to-icloud-failed