Personal Access Token stops working after a couple of days

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Changes To Personal Access Tokens (PAT)

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…