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Vesync - Authentication does not accept special characters

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The problem

The integration does not accept ‘special’ characters in the password field

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2022.2.9

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

VeSync

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/vesync/

Diagnostics information

Authentication failed message with password with a ‘^’ & ‘*’. when removed (and obviously the password changed on VeSync app) authentication worked.

Example YAML snippet

No response

Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

ERROR (SyncWorker_12) [pyvesync.vesync] Error logging in with username and password

Additional information

No response

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:10

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

dzombcommented, Oct 7, 2022

I updated to latest version of HA and the issue seems resolved. I was on 2022.2.9 previously, updated to 2022.10.1 and managed to authenticate with + symbol in email.

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dzombcommented, Oct 7, 2022

Same issue here… I registered a user name like @papa-smurf For context, you can add suffixes to gmail email addresses by adding the + symbol, mail is still directed to the main inbox. Useful for discovering who shares your email address!

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