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"QR code Detection Failed" message attempting to scan QR
In 1Password app, I am trying to enable MFA for a site
I select the "Scan QR Code" button and I get this message
Note that I have allowed screen recording permissions
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1P_Dave Yes, adding TOTP to 1Password when the QR code is presented in the browser window works properly, for the single test case I performed using hover.com. When the QR code image from Hover was displayed in a browser page modal, I clicked the QR code import button on the record being edited in the 1Password for Mac application. That all worked as expected.
However, having OTP Auth show that same QR code baffled 1Password. The actual code content in these two situations was different. For the one in the browser that 1Password "saw" the content was otpauth://totp/Hover:jlamoree?secret=sdm2lnkgly6e5nux75pmnn5fhi&issuer=Hover but when OTP Auth generated the QR code, the content was otpauth://totp/Hover:jlamoree?secret=SDM2LNKGLY6E5NUX75PMNN5FHI======&issuer=Hover&digits=6&period=30&algorithm=SHA1.
It's my belief that 1Password for Mac has no problem seeing QR codes on the screen, but rather that the parser does not like the content that it saw. Perhaps 1Password is angry because the secret is padded or that config fluff was added to the query string.
I suspect the mechanism for parsing the text content of the QR code differs when 1Password is running in iOS vs. macOS, since 1Password for iOS doesn't have a problem importing QR codes from OTP Auth when I aim my iPhone's camera at the desktop display.
