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Alerts not working after changes made by Google to switch to TFA
I had my alerts working just fine but with the change of Google To Two Factor Authenticating the alerts were no longer working. I deleted all the settings and am now trying to login with the Google i...
Thank you schumaku I have been on the wrong foot all the time I realize now. I have read in the release notes from one of the fimrmware version that there was support for 2FA of Google and as such assumed that it worked right out of the box. The method you referred to is for connecting devices that don't support 2FA to your Google mail account. Anyway thank you I created app passwords for my two RN628X's and now my alerts are working again. Thanks!
Both the App password as well as the automatically fetched token (along with the config) does work regardless of the 2FA configuration. Especially on the automated process, you already are authenticated to the Google account with 2FA in the browser. For the runtime of submitting email notifications 2FA would be unhandy, isn't it?
Sometimes the items in the marketing are more marketing than real tech 8-)
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