How can I integrate my lights into Home Assistant?(Controlled by REST API)

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How can I integrate my lights into Home Assistant?
All the lights in my home are controlled by REST API by intranet.

Dear All,
I’m not that good at English so I hope you understand.

Actually, my lights are controlled by REST API from my apartment’s server as below.

APARTMENT_SERVER/v2/api/livinglight/turnOn
APARTMENT_SERVER/v2/api/livinglight/turnOff
APARTMENT_SERVER/v2/api/livinglight/states

One of our resident has found these APIs from decompiling related mobile app.
So I want to introduce how to integrate our entities into HA.

  1. Is there any easy way to add entities into Home Assistant? I can find informations on internet, so please let me know core words or some related web pages. (I can’t find now :()

  2. How can I maintain the status of the device? I mean, there is a “states” API but I’m really care to be blocked by the administrator of the server if I call it every minutes.

  3. I think HA doesn’t have to know the status all the time. I need just can do on/off commands from HA. Is there a good way?

  4. I need to apply access_token in every APIs and I can retrive it by login API. This token is expired in every hours. How can I handle it? (ADDED)

Thanks for reading my thread and thank you in advance!

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Thanks a lot! I checked it but there is one more problem.
I need to apply access_token in header for every APIs and I can retrive it by login API. This token is expired in every hours. How can I handle it?

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You can add the access token to the headers of the restful call.

If you’re asking how to automate the retrieval of the token, that’s an entirely different story.

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Yes I need to know how to automate the retrieval of the token… I’m looking for the best pratice for this. maybe I can get token every swich’s operations…?

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There are no “best practices”.
You’ll have to find out how to get the access token without human intervention (likely another API), then you can automate it.

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Ahh thanks! I’ll figure that out :slight_smile: