Homeassistant location provider returns 401 then crashes

[timkolloch]

Hello!

I am trying to set up HomeAssistant as a location provider. I have the app installed on my smartphone and it is available as a device tracker.

when I try to run the rest command manually via the developer tools I get a 401 http error.
After that my HomeAssistant crashed.

content: ""
status: 401
headers:
  Server: nginx/1.28.2
  Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:58:03 GMT
  Content-Length: "0"
  Connection: keep-alive
  Content-Security-Policy: >-
    default-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'
    https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com https://unpkg.com; style-src 'self'
    'unsafe-inline' https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com https://unpkg.com; font-src
    'self' https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com; img-src 'self' data: https: blob:;
    connect-src 'self' https:; frame-ancestors 'none'; base-uri 'self';
    form-action 'self'
  Permissions-Policy: camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=(self), payment=()
  Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
  X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
  X-Frame-Options: DENY
  X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

Do I need to add my homeassistant domain (homeassistant.example.com) to the GEOPULSE_UI_URL env variable to be able to communicate?

[tess1o]

Hello,

No, nothing else should be added to GEOPULSE_UI_URL. 401 error means that Home Assistant server rejected request from GeoPulse.

According to instructions you need to configure "Location Source" in GeoPulse (set token for auth)

On Home Assistant server side you need to do more configurations as per instructions:

https://tess1o.github.io/geopulse/docs/user-guide/gps-sources/home_assistant

As per instructions you need to add rest_command in configuration.yaml which includes Authorization: Bearer YOUR_CONFIGURED_TOKEN.

Please check what you configured in HA. If you still face issues please share screenshots of your GeoPulse config and what exactly you configured on HA side.

[timkolloch]

Hi there,

yes that is what I did but I cannot find an error.

This is what I have:

Edit Error message from backend container:

2026-02-19 11:55:29,570 ERROR [org.git.tes.geo.gps.ser.aut.HomeAssistantAuthenticator] (executor-thread-584) Home Assisant authentication failed: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid Bearer Auth header
	at org.github.tess1o.geopulse.gps.service.auth.AbstractGpsIntegrationAuthenticator.extractBearerToken(AbstractGpsIntegrationAuthenticator.java:98)
	at org.github.tess1o.geopulse.gps.service.auth.HomeAssistantAuthenticator.findConfig(HomeAssistantAuthenticator.java:21)
	at org.github.tess1o.geopulse.gps.service.auth.AbstractGpsIntegrationAuthenticator.authenticate(AbstractGpsIntegrationAuthenticator.java:25)
	at org.github.tess1o.geopulse.gps.service.auth.HomeAssistantAuthenticator_ClientProxy.authenticate(Unknown Source)
	at org.github.tess1o.geopulse.gps.service.auth.GpsIntegrationAuthenticatorRegistry.authenticate(GpsIntegrationAuthenticatorRegistry.java:74)
	at org.github.tess1o.geopulse.gps.service.auth.GpsIntegrationAuthenticatorRegistry_ClientProxy.authenticate(Unknown Source)
	at org.github.tess1o.geopulse.gps.integrations.homeassistant.rest.HomeAssistantResource.handleHA(HomeAssistantResource.java:35)
	at org.github.tess1o.geopulse.gps.integrations.homeassistant.rest.HomeAssistantResource$quarkusrestinvoker$handleHA_8cdd4fb46e315ea365697011706049c6c3b548f6.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at org.github.tess1o.geopulse.gps.integrations.homeassistant.rest.HomeAssistantResource_ClientProxy.handleHA(Unknown Source)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.reactive.server.handlers.InvocationHandler.handle(InvocationHandler.java:29)
	at io.quarkus.resteasy.reactive.server.runtime.QuarkusResteasyReactiveRequestContext.invokeHandler(QuarkusResteasyReactiveRequestContext.java:183)
	at org.jboss.resteasy.reactive.common.core.AbstractResteasyReactiveContext.run(AbstractResteasyReactiveContext.java:147)
	at io.quarkus.vertx.core.runtime.VertxCoreRecorder$15.runWith(VertxCoreRecorder.java:645)
	at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$Task.doRunWith(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:2651)
	at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$Task.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:2630)
	at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor.runThreadBody(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1622)
	at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1589)
	at org.jboss.threads.DelegatingRunnable.run(DelegatingRunnable.java:11)
	at org.jboss.threads.ThreadLocalResettingRunnable.run(ThreadLocalResettingRunnable.java:11)
	at io.netty.util.concurrent.FastThreadLocalRunnable.run(FastThreadLocalRunnable.java:30)
	at java.base@25.0.2/java.lang.Thread.runWith(Thread.java:1487)
	at java.base@25.0.2/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1474)
	at org.graalvm.nativeimage.builder/com.oracle.svm.core.thread.PlatformThreads.threadStartRoutine(PlatformThreads.java:832)
	at org.graalvm.nativeimage.builder/com.oracle.svm.core.thread.PlatformThreads.threadStartRoutine(PlatformThreads.java:808)

So even though the tokens are the same the Bearer Auth header is invalid

[timkolloch]

Well shit xD. Found the obvious mistake. Adding "Bearer" infront of my token obviously solves the problem.