hi I’m using an access token to get info into node red but the token expires after 24 hours, what’s the point of that, how do i get one that does not expire .
thanks martin
You should also know that you’ll have to pay $5 / month starting in October, in case you prefer to just forget about it.
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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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Over the last several years, the SmartThings platform has grown into one of the most robust orchestration layers in the smart home industry, with over 460M+ registered users and hundreds of WWST partner brands — and our API is the gateway that connects third party apps and platforms to the SmartThings ecosystem.
Today, our commercial partners use it to power everything from short-term rental platforms and energy management systems to API aggregators and custom smart home dashboards, while our developer community uses our API to optimize their personal smart homes.
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