Setting up an API to create a custom GUI

Installation
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I hope this still falls under the “Installation” category. If not, let me know, willing to repost it on “Development”.

Anyway: I’m a complete noob to HA & I’ve been really struggling with getting the API to work, as nothing that I found in the documentation seemed to work for me. (stuck at 401: unauthorized).

I used to have my configuration.yaml set up with http: api_password:, but then apparently this has been deprecated. Then I tried setting it up with auth_providers, but now HA keeps going into safe mode and I really haven’t got the slightest clue of what I’m doing.

Can anybody please point me to a step by step to-do-list (or tutorial) for setting up the API? I find the documentation very confusing… and I may just be too much of a noob to pull this off.

Thanks in advance!

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This is how i use the api in a python script:

import yaml
import requests

config_file = '/home/homeassi/.homeassistant/variables.yaml'
url = 'http://localhost:8123/api/states/variable.'

headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer 123...abc',
    'content-type': 'application/json'
}

You can create the Bearer token in your user profile.
Auswahl_396

3

I kind of understand where everything is coming from except this line. Is this the folder of your own application or is this somewhere inside the HA folders?

Thanks in advance!

4

Forget this line, just a part of the script.
Has nothing to do with the API.

5

Cool! I finally got my API up-and-running thanks to your help!

Thanks a lot! :grin: