tapo.cloudLogin get Error: Unexpected Error Code: -20004

[coffeemilkcrazy]

Today I just got the error after call tapo.cloudLogin always got error message Error: Unexpected Error Code: -20004 and cannot login, not sure what error -20004 code mean?

Could you please check this error? hope we can fix it

[avalkowsky]

+1 also observed that one and have no clue what it is about

[rpalfray87]

Same for me.
Apparently the message means: "API rate limit exceeded"
But I don't know how to solve it :/

[houdang]

Obviously TP-Link blocked request from specific UUID's and there's only a specific one used in the code.
Check this line in the file here

It supposed to be the UUID from your own account. I guess the only way to found out the number is by checking the requests sent to TP-Link from the TP App, i not yet found time for this.

I just tested the request and sent a random number for the uuid.
That seems to work and i guess TP-Link won't block you if you don't spam there system.

[timrogers]

I've fixed this in #24 by automatically generating a UUID on each request, rather than using the hard-coded one - we just need to wait for @dickydoouk to have the time to review it 😊

If you want to give my changes a try in the mean time, then you can install my version of the package by running npm install timrogers/tp-link-tapo-connect#random-uuid.

[rpalfray87]

I've fixed this in #24 by automatically generating a UUID on each request, rather than using the hard-coded one - we just need to wait for @dickydoouk to have the time to review it blush

If you want to give my changes a try in the mean time, then you can install my version of the package by running npm install timrogers/tp-link-tapo-connect#random-uuid.

It works for me. Thank you :)