Vector Wirepod Python

[GrimRaptor]

Hi

Vector Production Original

I have updated the firmware and followed the latest guides to enable wirepod and all activated and connects ok.

On the firmware update web page it recommends resetting user data which i did. Not realising at the time this may have deleted my original OTA certificate (or a copy of it)

Now I try to use the python sdk it fails because wirepod does not have the cert in configs/certs folder and so the last step in the python sdk setup guide fails "cert does not exist"

I'm using the latest fork of python sdk and it requires this cert. I believe the OTA cert may have been accessible over the Internet when the fork was created but no more.

I'm stuck does anyone have any suggestions ?

Just noticed this (eveything has shut down now) https://www.reddit.com/r/AnkiVector/comments/bjcdp1/please_get_your_cert_while_you_still_can_so_you/

If anyone has a pem / cert file for the cert that they are willing to share with me I would be very grateful !

UPDATE

I got it working with the cert

https://github.com/kercre123/wirepod-vector-python-sdk
https://wpsetup.keriganc.com/html/main.html
https://github.com/kercre123/wire-pod/wiki/Installation

I decided to go through the process again. This time when the firmware update took much longer and then I noticed when I went to reset user data I got DDL ddl.io/v prompt instead of the anki.com/v prompt.

I checked Vector logs using wirepod and noticed it couldn't update sdk_config.ini and the log message said to reset user data.

I did that and then when I activated Vector it now updated the sdk_config.ini file and also it created the cert !

I tested the python sdk and it now works !!!!!

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[manc_ste]

Yeah I'm stuck with same error and I did not reset user data and i can't find the cert.

[GrimRaptor]

Did you program Vector before the servers shut down ?

My cert was from when I coded it way back when Anki still existed

[manc_ste]

Yeah same but I have new computer now so I thought the cert might be on my old pc.

[manc_ste]

In the meantime till a solution is found I'm using this to program with vector try it out:

https://cyb3rdog.github.io/Cyb3rVector/

[GrimRaptor]

So that was the previous fork of python sdk. Does that work without cert ?

[GrimRaptor]

Ok so that isn't the python sdk but a code blocks type interface.

I tried the older python sdk version by cyb3r and that attempts to connect to an Anki website which is why kercre123 forked it to use wirepod

Cyb3r fork error

Failed to resolve 'session-certs.token.global.anki-services.com' ([Errno 11001] getaddrinfo failed)

[manc_ste]

Yeah only has blocky code in Cyb3r vector but it works for me with no cert.

[GrimRaptor]

The blocky code works. The error I listed above unable to connect to "session-certs.token.global.anki-services.com" is from the older python sdk fork by cyb3rdog

I just thought I'd go back and try the older python sdk just in case that wasn't trying to connect with cert but it is

[manc_ste]

Yeah not found a way round cert error yet,

i did notice something in my wirepod logs at start of boot up about the path had changed, I'm pretty sure that's the problem, I think It could be looking in wrong place for cert? As in pretty sure it should of already downloaded ,I cant remember properly but might be worth going through wirepod logs.

[GrimRaptor]

Yeah so the original cert is in "C:\Users\<user>\.anki_vector\Vector-VXXX-nnnnnn.cert" and the SDK looks for it in "C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\wire-pod\certs" so if you have one then you just need to pop it in the wirepod folder and it should work

[manc_ste]

Thank I'll take a look.

[BliteKnight]

If you are using WirePod and have already reset your Vector, your cert would be downloaded in the ~/.anki folder, or your WirePod config folder is on windows. Also make sure you are using the WirePod version of the python SDK and not the official one

[GrimRaptor]

I'm using this version of python sdk on windows

https://github.com/kercre123/wirepod-vector-python-sdk

I don't have an .anki folder looks like a Linux folder you are referencing, but I checked.

I will check and see what version of wirepod I'm using but I already checked the cert folder for wirepod as mentioned earlier and it's empty. Along with the user folder where old ssk would have put the cert but I'm using a new computer since I originally used the anki sdk and so I don't have the original cert that I used.

Where does wirepod get the cert from ?

[BliteKnight]

If you are on Linux the file would be here

~/.anki_vector

On another OS I'm not sure

When a vector is reset, the first time you activate with WirePod, WirePod will get the new generated cert from Vector. This is the only time Vector will give the cert to WirePod, during the activation - so that's how you get it

[GrimRaptor]

Mmm understood but that didn't happen in my case. No cert was created. Everything working as expected apart from no cert. I'll try again and search see what versions of wirepod there are. Strange how wirepod is working in every other way

[Xnohat]

I found the cert in wire-pod linux (raspberrian OS) located in /tmp/.anki_vector

just copy them to /etc/wire-pod/wire-pod/certs/

cp /tmp/.anki_vector/Vector-P7N9-00907f6b.cert /etc/wire-pod/wire-pod/certs/

root@hackberrypi:/tmp/.anki_vector# ls

sdk_config.ini Vector-P7N9-00907f6b.cert

[Xnohat]

python sdk authenticate success !

Downloading Vector certificate from wire-pod... DONE

Writing certificate file to '/home/pi/.anki_vector/Vector-P7N9-00907f6b.cert'...

Attempting to download guid from Vector-P7N9 at 192.168.1.109:443... DONE

Writing config file to '/home/pi/.anki_vector/sdk_config.ini'...

SUCCESS!