# Developing a new Family iPhone App **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps\ **Tags:** app\ **Created:** [January 26, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016 "2019-01-26T16:08:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![2Be](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/2bfe46/32.png) [@2Be](https://community.homey.app/u/2Be)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/21 "2019-01-29T19:12:06Z")
Was trying to reinstall the app and add devices to test the app specific password or the combined pasweord and 2fa. Got the following error. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/3/3eb5d6bdcfd4ba44f273284b5c5c6b45c306c6d9.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_Messerschmidt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tim_messerschmidt/32/11398_2.png) [@Tim\_Messerschmidt](https://community.homey.app/u/Tim_Messerschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/22 "2019-01-29T21:45:56Z")
Love the potential of this app! ---
**Author:** ![MarcelT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcelt/32/10042_2.png) [@MarcelT](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcelT)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 5:55am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/23 "2019-01-30T05:55:29Z")
Could you tell me which version you have? I think you have not the latest. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_Messerschmidt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tim_messerschmidt/32/11398_2.png) [@Tim\_Messerschmidt](https://community.homey.app/u/Tim_Messerschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 6:50am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/25 "2019-01-30T06:50:09Z")
Does this work already? Like the capabilities but the 2 factor auth. makes it unusable now. ---
**Author:** ![2Be](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/2bfe46/32.png) [@2Be](https://community.homey.app/u/2Be)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 6:55am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/26 "2019-01-30T06:55:59Z")
I have installed the app store version 1.0.1. ---
**Author:** ![MarcelT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcelt/32/10042_2.png) [@MarcelT](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcelT)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 7:06am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/27 "2019-01-30T07:06:17Z")
Hi, Ok, I see the next version is not approved yet. I will check if this is an issue in the latest app as well. Technically I can do the 2fa but the problem is that I need to have a popup where you can fill in this number. For the first time this could be on the settings page (need to test this) but once a while Homey/Apple drops the connection and you will need again to fill in this number and then it would be great if you have a popup in the Homey app that asks for a number. I am also not sure how often this will be. Without the 2fa the app is login automatically and you will not be bothered 🙂 So the APP Specific password sound nice 🙂 I was not aware of this. Currently I am running the app now for 3 days (without 2fa) using the same session and not need to reconnect. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_Messerschmidt](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tim_messerschmidt/32/11398_2.png) [@Tim\_Messerschmidt](https://community.homey.app/u/Tim_Messerschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/28 "2019-01-30T07:12:26Z")
The app specific password sounds like the solution. Thanks for this app Marcel! Things I intend to use it for: - Better presence - Set thermostat so that the closer I get to home the closer the room temp wil be set to my desired state. (what tado does automatically) - and a lot more probably ---
**Author:** ![MarcelT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcelt/32/10042_2.png) [@MarcelT](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcelT)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 8:59am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/29 "2019-01-30T08:59:55Z")
Hi, I will create a new account on apple (i have an old iPhone, which I will use for this) and ask also a app-specific password. Then see if I get this to work. Apple it very protected 🙂 of course… Unfortunately I do not have much time this week and weekend so it take a while ☹ But I will do my best. ---
**Author:** ![MarcelT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcelt/32/10042_2.png) [@MarcelT](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcelT)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2019, 8:18pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/30 "2019-01-30T20:18:40Z")
The app-specific-password won’t work. The api that uses this is not available on nodejs (Homey). I have exchanged the current module with another one and it seems that it is not needed to use the 2fa for the FindMe module. I have updated github and submitted the app to the store (not approved yet). It is version 1.0.5. **You should get max one e-mail from apple that a login is used on your account. If this will happen every 5 minutes, remove the app as the intention is that it uses the current session. This means the connection between homey and apple is killed.** ---
**Author:** ![MarcelT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcelt/32/10042_2.png) [@MarcelT](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcelT)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/31 "2019-01-31T18:25:40Z")
To give you guys an update. Unfortunately, it requires a lot of trial and error. I have to node modules that make the connection to iCloud. One of them support only the non 2fa and works great but is limited to username / password . The other seems to support 2fa but stops working after a random time from 5 minutes till 1 hour or so. So I am busy with testing and rewriting existing node\_mofules which require a lot of time. So I think it takes a while before to figure out it is possible to support the 2fa part. I hope I get it work. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Blesgraaf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_blesgraaf/32/8998_2.png) [@Peter\_Blesgraaf](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Blesgraaf)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/32 "2019-01-31T18:39:18Z")
Could be handy ---
**Author:** ![MarcelT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcelt/32/10042_2.png) [@MarcelT](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcelT)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 8:21am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/34 "2019-02-04T08:21:15Z")
Hi all, I spend already around 60 hours to get this app working stable with Apple. It is a lot of research and this cost me to must time. The difficult is also that different home networks have different behaviours. I will **remove the app from the app store** because for an inexperienced user this app has too much risk to be ban from Apple. I will leave the code on github so in case you want to try or improve the code you are more than welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Aart\_Hardeman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/aart_hardeman/32/11163_2.png) [@Aart\_Hardeman](https://community.homey.app/u/Aart_Hardeman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/35 "2019-02-04T12:54:26Z")
Thanks for your effort. It had A lot of potential. Anyway i go back using ifttt loc for now. ---
**Author:** ![2Be](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/2bfe46/32.png) [@2Be](https://community.homey.app/u/2Be)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/36 "2019-02-04T13:27:18Z")
> [@MarcelT](#): > > e Thnx for al your efforts. Too bad it’s so difficult and I understand your decision. Maybe somebody can pick it up were you left off in the future. ---
**Author:** ![HeKi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/heki/32/12165_2.png) [@HeKi](https://community.homey.app/u/HeKi)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/37 "2019-02-05T20:48:03Z")
Hi @MarcelT I am willing to give it a try. Where can I find on github the source? Kind regards, ---
**Author:** ![Robin\_van\_Kekem](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robin_van_kekem/32/8187_2.png) [@Robin\_van\_Kekem](https://community.homey.app/u/Robin_van_Kekem)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 11:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/38 "2019-02-05T23:29:18Z")
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**Author:** ![HeKi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/heki/32/12165_2.png) [@HeKi](https://community.homey.app/u/HeKi)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 5:10am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/39 "2019-02-06T05:10:02Z")
Sorry, I misunderstood. I was thinking it was an iphone app, not a homey app. Can not be of help. ---
**Author:** ![MarcelT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcelt/32/10042_2.png) [@MarcelT](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcelT)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/40 "2019-02-06T07:20:42Z")
Hi, ok. no problem. When I have some time I will still look to this. ---
**Author:** ![MarcelT](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcelt/32/10042_2.png) [@MarcelT](https://community.homey.app/u/MarcelT)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/41 "2019-06-13T13:29:23Z")
Launched a retry of the app and see if this is working better. Spent a lot of time on it to hopefully it works. ---
**Author:** ![Satoer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/satoer/32/38113_2.png) [@Satoer](https://community.homey.app/u/Satoer)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016/42 "2019-06-13T14:44:19Z")
What’s the link to the store? I would like to try it, because the build-in location detection does not work properly. Question, does it continuously keep the gps active (and drain the battery much quicker)? [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/developing-a-new-family-iphone-app/8016.md?page=3)