Creating automations using Ansible

[JamesGeddes]

Hi all,

I need to create automations via Ansible. I appreciate that this is perhaps an unusual request, but I want to automate my automations! Turtles all the way down…

As far as I can see, the only way to do this currently is via the RESTful API using a POST, is that correct? What is the recommended way to create/update automations using Ansible?

I have also posted about this in the Development channel but no reply as yet.

REST API docs for automations?

I have a similar requirement, except that I need to create automations via Ansible. I am getting a “HTTP Error 405: Method Not Allowed” when I do a POST to http://homeassistant.local:8123/config/automation/config/[random ID]. Here is my Ansible YAML, which includes the JSON body exactly as described above. - name: Generate deterministic 13-character numeric IDs for each hostname and env var name combination set_fact: "{{ inventory_hostname }}_{{ env_uuid }}_deterministic_id": "{{ '%013d'…

Thus far, I have been able to create a text helper using Ansible, but not an automation. As mentioned in my other post, my POST request gets a 405.

Thanks!

[PeteRage]

I generate most of my automations and packages vis configuration generators. So if you a trying to automate config generation this is a good approach. Break up your config into packages and then build it from whatever tool you want (I use shell scripts and YQ).

[JamesGeddes]

My main problem at the moment is that when I try to create an automation via the REST API it returns “HTTP Error 405: Method Not Allowed”. Not sure what I’m doing wrong but would appreciate any suggestions.

I am also open to directly adding files to the automations directory, however I guess that this would need me to SSH into the home assistant box. As I am running HAOS on my own server, I am not sure how to do this.

[francisp (Francis)]

Do you send a long lived token with your HTTP request?

[JamesGeddes]

Yes. If I were not, would it return 403 instead?