Fetching a token every hour

@danielo515 wrote:

Hello.
I want to run a rest command every hour to fetch an auth token and then I want to use that token in some other automations.
I can’t find any good way of doing this.
If this were a normal application I will just make a post request and store the result token in some temporary variable, but I don’t find any HASSIO way of doing this.
What I tried so far:

• Set the basic auth (username and password) in secrets.yaml
• Because you can’t access secrets from templates ( I don’t understand this limitation) create an input text to hold the secret values
• Create a rest sensor that uses the input text values like this:

- platform: rest
  resource: http://192.168.0.121/cgi-bin/api.cgi?cmd=Login&token=null
  method: POST
  payload: '[{"userName":"{{ states.input_text.xxx_user.state }}","password":"{{ states.input_text.xxx_password.state }}"}]'  
  value_template: '{{ value_json.0.value }}'
  json_attributes:
    - value.Token.lease_time 
    - value.Token.name 

And that’s all for now. The rest sensor has been failing but I don’t know why because I don’t know what is the exact request it is doing. Is there any log where I can see the actual request? If I try a curl request with this same values I get a satisfactory response, which looks like this:

[
   {
      "cmd" : "Login",
      "code" : 0,
      "value" : {
         "Token" : {
            "leaseTime" : 3600,
            "name" : "the-actual-token-value"
         }
      }
   }
]

Do you know of any other better approach?
I would love to use AppDaemon, but it seems to be a silo where you can’t fetch values from.

Thanks in advance

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