Problem with the latest Loxone beta

[DerFlash]

Hey Alladdin,

thanks at first for your great work here!

As far as I know @codmpm / Patrik already contacted you about the issue regarding messages not coming through in the latest Loxone beta.

I think I already found the issue:
The Loxone MS is throwing a HTTP 500 on jdev/sps/ios/// since the first beta.
I already contacted Loxone about this, but did not get any response yet.

I did a little workaround for now, by just switching to /io/ commands for now within

node-lox-ws-api/lib/Auth/Hash.js

Line 18 in 0d9721b

var prefix = 'jdev/sps/ios/'+this._hmac_hash+'/';

- var prefix = 'jdev/sps/ios/'+this._hmac_hash+'/';
+ var prefix = 'jdev/sps/io/;

After this is works like a charm again for now.

One thing got my attention when reading the Loxone docs about it. In the "Hashing" section of https://www.loxone.com/dede/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/loxone-communicating-with-the-miniserver.pdf they write "encode the hash back to hex".
As far as I could see the /authenticate/ still works fine without encoding it back. So I assume it's just a working issue in the docs. I also just tried to hex-encode it back within the command, with no luck.
So I strongly assume it's just a bug and they need to fix it.

Kind regards
Björn

[codmpm]

Will there be a possibility to distiguish between a connection to a 8.x or 9.x miniserver?

Testing the 9.x beta right now...

[codmpm]

I've just installied 9.0.26 (final) and still can't send commands to the miniserver. Receving works, though.

So it seems, that we have to dstinguish between Version 8 and version 9 :-(

@alladdin, did you have any time to get to the problem?

[alladdin]

I'll have some time on friday. I'll try to analyze web interface communication. The latest documentation will be better, but I wasn't found it yet.

[alladdin]

Ok. I found the doc. The new token auth is there.

[DerFlash]

Just for reference, because I also did try to find it with no luck at first: https://www.loxone.com/dede/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/0900_Communicating-with-the-Miniserver.pdf?x48792

[codmpm]

Thats great guys. Let me know If I can help in any way...

[christianTF]

I don't know if this is helpful in this context:
In the LoxBerry Miniserverbackup we query the firmware version with a "plain" http REST web service request (line 234).
https://github.com/Woersty/LoxBerry-Plugin-miniserverbackup/blob/master/webfrontend/cgi/bin/createmsbackup.pl

[alladdin]

Quick fix published. It's working for now.
But I must implement token based auth.
I'm working on it but I'm stucked in gettoken request (Section "Acquiring tokens" in 9.0 doc). I have a problem with calculating proper hash. The documentation is not clear in that case (like always).

[alladdin]

And sniffing communinaction is also problem, because all web interface communication is encrypted

[codmpm]

Great Job @alladdin ^^
If we can help in any way to get to the token based solution, let us know.

I've updated node-red-contrib-loxone to use the current node-lox-ws-api. Tested and working with Loxone 9.0.9.26.

Could you give us some info if the current node-lox-ws-api will still work with Lox8, as I can't test this?

Big thanks!
Cheers

[alladdin]

Current (0.3.4) version on node-lox-ws-api is compatible with Lox 8.

And I found the catch with the tokens. SHA1 hash of password and salt must be uppercased ;)

[codmpm]

node-red-contrib-loxone 0.5.0 already live: https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-loxone

[zllimit]

hello everyone,
I already updated the node-lox-ws-api to version 0.3.4, but it seems that it still can't work with Lox 9. Can someone told me how to do? Thanks!

Hi there,

I would be also really interested in an update to the new loxone v9 API, with the tokens.
Is anyone on this right now?

Also, great work, thank you :)