Hello,
I using the Access token to connect Smart Things to Home Assistant and is not posible to maintain it because the access key expire after 24 hour. how can I set to more time?
Thanks
jkp
January 19, 2025, 5:24pm
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you can’t… it is set at 24 hours
As part of SmartThings’ ongoing work to improve our platform and deliver a high-performing and secure smart home experience for our users, we’re making some changes to how personal access tokens (PATs) work.
PATs were originally intended as a way to test and evaluate new integrations and SmartApps on the SmartThings platform. Since SmartThings provided an easy way to generate PATs over 10 years ago, they’ve been used extensively by our developer community to create and share new devices and unique integrations.
Unfortunately, their very nature (easy to generate, very wide scopes/permissions, and basically anonymous) have also become a problem over the years. The use of PATs for long-lived integrations was never their intent and presents a problem for how we manage the platform going forw…
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jkp
January 19, 2025, 5:26pm
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The developers at Home Assistant are aware of the new limitations and working on a fix.
opened 11:16PM - 19 Dec 24 UTC
integration: smartthings
### The problem
https://community.smartthings.com/t/changes-to-personal-access-… tokens-pat/292019
TLDR: Newly generated PATs will only work for 24 hours, which will be absurdly annoying for new users of this integration, so a change to OAuth auth is needed ASAP.
### What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?
NA
### What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?
NA
### What type of installation are you running?
Home Assistant OS
### Integration causing the issue
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### Link to integration documentation on our website
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### Diagnostics information
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### Example YAML snippet
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### Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?
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Thanks.
I hope that the fix get to production soon!