request-error=CloudflareChallengeError about pyaarlo

[twrecked]

Annoying isn't it.

It's something to do with python requests and the Cloudflare servers. I've added cloudscraper support and it seems to work until it doesn't.

There are a couple of things you can do to try to get it to work:

• change your user agent. Add this parameter to PyArlo, user_agent='linux'. As well as linux you can try ipad or mac or firefox.

• force the authentication to try a particular Arlo server. You can add entries to your /etc/hosts file to try this. Change the commented out line to see if it makes a difference

104.18.30.98 ocapi-app.arlo.com
#104.18.31.98 ocapi-app.arlo.com

And once it works it will save out the authentication token and re-use it without using the Cloudflare servers. I think it's generally valid for 14 days. The token is saved in the storage directory which defaults to /tmp/.aarlo. You can alter this with the storage_dir parameter.

[scottmil]

I just discovered the same Cloudflare challenge that caused authentication to fail.
I added user_agent='linux' to the pyaarlo login on my RaspberryPi server as well as the 2 Cloudflare servers to my /ect/hosts file. I left the first server uncommented as above, and after rebooting and logging in with pyaarlo, your suggestions worked!
Thank you!

[phene]

Can confirm that cycling through user-agents helps.