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xgkkp
8 months agoNew Contributor
"Invalid OTP" as complication
I've tried adding one of my (microsoft) 2FA OTP keys as a complication on my apple watch. Although the app (on all platforms, including the watch app directly) can generate keys fine (as can Authy, o...
xgkkp
8 months agoNew Contributor
It didn’t come in that form. I didn’t scan the QR code but instead chose “put into an app manually” (I previously wanted to generate through oath-tools) at which point it gave me the base secret - so tkltt6yvdtvc5jh2
is literally the entire contents of the field I put into 1password.
That said, manually putting it into 1password as
otpauth://totp/Microsft:emailaddress?secret=tkltt6yvdtvc5jh2&issuer=Microsoft
does work on the complication (and gives exactly exactly the same answer as all the apps did with the bare secret).
So, apparently the complication only requires it in this explicit format. Confusing, but now working, thanks.