Login attempt or request with invalid authentication from HEOS-HomeCinema

[leon-volt]

The problem

I'm getting the following error when I try playing music to my heos soundbar HEOSHCBKE2 via the media browser.
I've tried re adding the integration but no luck.

Login attempt or request with invalid authentication from HEOS-HomeCinema (192.168.1.72). (AvegaMediaServer/2.0 Linux/2.6)

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2022.4.0

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

Integration, heos

Link to integration documentation on our website

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

Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

Logger: homeassistant.components.http.ban
Source: components/http/ban.py:125
Integration: HTTP (documentation, issues)
First occurred: 22:48:52 (7 occurrences)
Last logged: 22:52:10

Login attempt or request with invalid authentication from HEOS-HomeCinema (192.168.1.72). (AvegaMediaServer/2.0 Linux/2.6)

Additional information

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[probot-home-assistant]

Hey there @andrewsayre, mind taking a look at this issue as it has been labeled with an integration (heos) you are listed as a code owner for? Thanks!
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[ianfretwell]

Have you actually used the heos.sign_in service to log it into your Heos account? It'll not work until you do.

[leon-volt]

Have you actually used the heos.sign_in service to log it into your Heos account? It'll not work until you do.

Yes I've done that. Favorites are working and everything. But the error still occurs. I will try it tomorrow with a clean Hass vm to confirm that there's nothing else in my setup causing it.

[frankvollebregt]

Since this issue also occurs when playing through the media browser, I feel like it might be the same issue that was reported here. Do you have a similar message in your own logs @ianfretwell ?

[ianfretwell]

@frankvollebregt No errors at all for me - it just doesn't do anything so I'm pretty sure it's different.

[frankvollebregt]

After enabling the logs as per the documentation, I can view the URL that is sent to the Heos to be played. It looks a bit like this (some parts obscured for obvious reasons):

http://192.168.1.xxx:8123/media/local/Firstname%2520Lastname%2520-%2520Album/02%2520-%2520Firstname%2520Lastname%2520-%2520Songtitle.mp3?authSig%3DeyREST_OF_TOKEN

Sure enough, running this URL in Postman returned the same 401 (unauthorized) error.
And I thought, hey, this looks strange. As it turns out, is it encoded twice. When I decode this URL (just using some random online URL decoder), I get a URL that looks much more like a 'normal' encoded URL:

http://192.168.1.xxx:8123/media/local/Firstname%20Lastname%20-%20Album/02%20-%20Firstname%20Lastname%20-%20Songtitle.mp3?authSig=eyREST_OF_TOKEN

When I put this URL in my browser's address bar, it plays as expected.

In conclusion, I suspect that the URL is encoded twice: Once in pyheos, and once in the HA component.

I'm not very experienced with how HA works, so I hope I may have saved someone some time figuring things out :)

Edit

Never mind the above, since it's a URL inside a URL, of course the inner part would have to be encoded twice (otherwise it might break the outer URL...)

I see there have been some changes on the dev channel to the media_player.py file, maybe this somehow helps resolve the issue here?

999e2f3

[frankvollebregt]

To supplement to the original issue, here is a part of the debug logs I get:

2022-04-07 15:38:32 DEBUG (MainThread) [pyheos.connection] Command executed 'heos://browse/play_stream?sequence=16&pid=xxx&url=URL_WITH_TOKEN': '{'command': 'browse/play_stream', 'result': 'success', 'message': 'sequence=16&pid=xxx&url=URL_WITH_TOKEN'}'
2022-04-07 15:38:33 DEBUG (MainThread) [pyheos.connection] Event received for player {HEOS HomeCinema (HEOS HomeCinema)}: {'command': 'event/player_queue_changed', 'message': 'pid=xxx'}
2022-04-07 15:38:33 DEBUG (MainThread) [pyheos.connection] Command executed 'heos://player/get_now_playing_media?sequence=17&pid=xxx': '{'command': 'player/get_now_playing_media', 'result': 'success', 'message': 'sequence=17&pid=xxx'}'
2022-04-07 15:38:33 DEBUG (MainThread) [pyheos.connection] Event received for player {HEOS HomeCinema (HEOS HomeCinema)}: {'command': 'event/player_now_playing_changed', 'message': 'pid=xxx'}
2022-04-07 15:38:34 WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.components.http.ban] Login attempt or request with invalid authentication from HEOS-HomeCinema (192.168.1.72). (AvegaMediaServer/2.0 Linux/2.6)
2022-04-07 15:38:34 DEBUG (MainThread) [pyheos.connection] Event received for player {HEOS HomeCinema (HEOS HomeCinema)}: {'command': 'event/player_state_changed', 'message': 'pid=xxx&state=stop'}
2022-04-07 15:38:34 DEBUG (MainThread) [pyheos.connection] Event received for player {HEOS HomeCinema (HEOS HomeCinema)}: {'command': 'event/player_playback_error', 'message': 'pid=xxx&error=Unable to play media. Please try again later.'}
2022-04-07 15:38:34 DEBUG (MainThread) [pyheos.connection] Command executed 'heos://player/get_now_playing_media?sequence=18&pid=xxx': '{'command': 'player/get_now_playing_media', 'result': 'success', 'message': 'sequence=18&pid=xxx'}'

[ianfretwell]

And yet I'm not having ANY problem playing to my Heos Homecinema through the media browser.

Just for clarity I'm selecting music from a DLNA server.

My original issue still stands that it won't play an album, only individual tracks. Playing an album just causes the previous Heos instigated queue to play instead - as per here.

[haivala]

I have Marantz amp and when I try to play media through the hass media player I get the same login error and I cannot play any local media from the media browser when I select the HEOS output. It just jumps to play one of the working HEOS playlists.

Seems like the url that is given from hass to the HEOS and which it is trying to play inside the amp is not reachable from the hass instance and hass gives HEOS the login prompt in which it does not have creds. Am I right?

I'm running: Home Assistant 2022.4.3

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