GET JSON on Command

[Salve]

Hello Guys,
Got an issue again.

I have following sensor.
I would like to trigger the sensor to update not by the “scan interval”. I would like it to update only to a certain time (like every 5 minutes past fill hour) or by an automation

Any Ideas how to get this running?

sensor:  

- platform: rest
  name: EurUsd
  resource: https://api.twelvedata.com/cci?symbol=XXXX
  method: GET
  scan_interval: 3600 
  value_template: "{{ value_json['values'][0]['cci'] }}"

[Olivier1974 (Olivier Toussaint)]

How do you get the response from a Restful command?

You can set a very high scan_interval on a sensor and trigger an update “manually” as required. For my printer, I do this under the rest: section (with a daily default update, but you could go much higher): - resource: http://192.168.1.9/DevMgmt/ProductUsageDyn.xml scan_interval: 86400 sensor: - name: "Printer total page count" and then have an automation to update it when a spike in UPS load suggests printing is happening: action: - service: homeassistant.update_entity ta…

[Salve]

@How do you get the response from a Restful command?

86400

Works great, Thanks