Rest sensor refresh rate

[emavarela (Emanuel Varela)]

Hi there,

Searching for something similar I found some nice already answered threads that helped me out:

Force refresh a REST platform object on demand

I have a rest platform that gathers data from my smart tv and a few template sensors that parses the gathered data into individual entities. It looks like this: - platform: rest resource: !secret samygo_tv_living_channelinfo method: GET name: TV Living ChannelInfo json_attributes: - source - pvr_status - power_state - tv_mode - volume - channel_number - channel_name - program_name scan_interval: '00:05' - platform: template…

Manually refresh rest sensor?

Hi, is it possible to manually trigger a refresh of a restful sensor? According to the docs, there is no command for rest sensors. Only rest.refresh what I guess is to reload the configuration. Background is: I have a template switch which is based on a rest sensor. If you toggle the switch, the command is sent. But the switch still shows the old state, until the next refresh of the rest sensor. This is confusing…

So basically, setup a very long scan_interval value for your sensor, and whenever you want to update the value run with an action the following:

- service: homeassistant.update_entity
  entity_id: sensor.your_rest_sensor

Cheers,
Emanuel