Custom Sensor Integration Issues

Devices & Integrations
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I have a current OpenHAB installation and several custom sensors (temp/humidity and garage door control) that I have been able to integrate using a custom device handler and REST. I am able to get updates when hitting an update button but have not yet been able to set an update schedule using the scheduler. I tried to add the command runEvery5Seconds() to the device handler as shown below as well as trying to write a smartapp with the sole purpose of updating the temps. Any help here would be GREATLY appreciated.
Pete

Device Handler:

metadata {
	definition (name: "Temp", namespace: "pjacobs4", author: "Peter Jacobsen") {
		capability "Relative Humidity Measurement"
		capability "Temperature Measurement"
        capability "Refresh"
        
        command "get_status"
	}


	simulator {
		// TODO: define status and reply messages here
	}
    preferences {
        
        input name: "t_path", type: "text", title: "Temp Path", description: "", required: true, displayDuringSetup: true
        input name: "h_path", type: "text", title: "Humid Path", description: "", required: true, displayDuringSetup: true
    }
	tiles
    {
		valueTile("temperature", "device.temperature", inactiveLabel: false, decoration: "flat") {
			state "temperature", label:'${currentValue}°',
			backgroundColors:[
				[value: 31, color: "#153591"],
				[value: 44, color: "#1e9cbb"],
				[value: 59, color: "#90d2a7"],
				[value: 74, color: "#44b621"],
				[value: 84, color: "#f1d801"],
				[value: 95, color: "#d04e00"],
				[value: 96, color: "#bc2323"]
			]
		}
		valueTile("humidity", "device.humidity", inactiveLabel: false, decoration: "flat") {
			state "humidity", label:'${currentValue}% humidity', unit:""
		}
        standardTile("refresh", "device.door", inactiveLabel: false, decoration: "flat") {
			state "default", label:'refresh', action:"refresh.refresh", icon:"st.secondary.refresh"
		}
        
		main "temperature"
		details(["temperature", "humidity", "refresh"])
	}
}


// parse events into attributes
def parse(String description) {
	log.debug "Parsing '${description}'"
	// TODO: handle 'humidity' attribute
	// TODO: handle 'temperature' attribute

}
def poll(){
	get_status()
}
def refresh() {
	runEvery5Minutes(get_status())
    get_status()
}

def configure() {
	runEvery5Minutes(get_status())
}

def get_status() {
	def params = [
        uri: "http://xxxxxx",
        path: "/rest/items/${t_path}/state"
    ]
    def aa
	try 
    {
    	httpGet(params) { resp ->
        	aa =  resp
            aa=aa.data.text
            log.debug "${aa}"
      		sendEvent(name: "temperature", value: aa)
        }	
	}
    catch (e)
    {
    	log.error "something went wrong: $e"
	}
    
    params = [
        uri: "xxxx",
        path: "/rest/items/${h_path}/state"
    ]

	try 
    {
    	httpGet(params) { resp ->
        	aa =  resp
            aa=aa.data.text
            log.debug "${aa}"
      		sendEvent(name: "humidity", value: aa)
        }	
	}
    catch (e)
    {
    	log.error "something went wrong: $e"
	}
}

Smartapp:

definition(
    name: "temp_updater",
    namespace: "pjacobs4",
    author: "Peter Jacobsen",
    description: "updates openhab temps",
    category: "Convenience",
    iconUrl: "https://s3.amazonaws.com/smartapp-icons/Convenience/Cat-Convenience.png",
    iconX2Url: "https://s3.amazonaws.com/smartapp-icons/Convenience/Cat-Convenience@2x.png",
    iconX3Url: "https://s3.amazonaws.com/smartapp-icons/Convenience/Cat-Convenience@2x.png")


preferences {
	section {
        input "ref", "capability.refresh", multiple: false
    }
}
    

def installed() {
	log.debug "Installed with settings: ${settings}"
	initialize()
}

def updated() {
	log.debug "Updated with settings: ${settings}"
	unsubscribe()
	initialize()
}
def refresher(){
    	ref.refresh()
}
def initialize() {

	refresher()
    runEvery5Minutes(refresher())
}