high jetty
I've read the API docs here https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/api/rest and the configurator page here https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/tree/master/configurator and I can't figure out how to get the full automations.yaml via a API call. I have a token and list devices etc..
Does anyone have working code to get this file? Thanks!
harsh gyro
I've read the API docs here https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/api/rest a...
I have to ask... why?
royal quartz
I'm pretty sure you can't via the REST API
And HA generally doesn't care where automations are located as long as they're included or are in a package. Only the UI cares
So perhaps you're asking how to get all the automations somehow?
high jetty
I would like to write code to create the automations. Before I start automating the creation of automations, I'd like to be able to quickly get the current config(s) to validate or check into git. I know HA has it's own backup system and I use it, but I thought it'd be straight forward to get the entire config.
Should I just enable ssh and scp them over? How are people using external IDEs or writing code to create or version control their automations?
royal quartz
It's much more straightforward to simply make a backup of the config directory than trying to extract it from the API
And generating the YAML directly into an included file or package is much more straightforward than trying to build an automation from the API
And if you want to use the API, it will be the websockets API and not the REST API
high jetty
Thanks RobC, and when you say make a backup. You mean calling a function inside HA to create the backup in the HA filesystem (I'm running HAOS on a vm).
Or do you mean simply expose the filesystem outside of HAOS and copy the dir myself?