RESTful binary sensor

The rest binary sensor platform is consuming a given endpoint which is exposed by a RESTful API of a device, an application, or a web service. The binary sensor has support for GET and POST requests.

Tip: If you want to create multiple sensors using the same endpoint, use the RESTful configuration instructions.

If the endpoint returns one of the values of these pairs: 0/1, "0"/"1", FALSE/TRUE, false/true, off/on or closed/open it can be used as-is. If the return value differs, use a template. If the endpoint returns XML with the text/xml, application/xml, or application/xhtml+xml content type, it will automatically be converted to JSON according to this specification.

{
    "name": "Binary sensor",
    "state": {
        "open": "true",
        "timestamp": "2016-06-20 15:42:52.926733"
    }
}

Configuration

To enable this sensor, add the following lines to your configuration.yamlThe configuration.yaml file is the main configuration file for Home Assistant. It lists the integrations to be loaded and their specific configurations. In some cases, the configuration needs to be edited manually directly in the configuration.yaml file. Most integrations can be configured in the UI. [Learn more] file for a GET request:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
binary_sensor:
  - platform: rest
    resource: http://IP_ADDRESS/ENDPOINT

or for a POST request:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
binary_sensor:
  - platform: rest
    resource: http://IP_ADDRESS/ENDPOINT
    method: POST

or a template based request:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
binary_sensor:
  - platform: rest
    resource_template: "http://IP_ADDRESS/{{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}"

Examples

In this section you find some real-life examples of how to use this sensor.

aREST sensor

Instead of using an aREST binary sensor, you could retrieve the value of a device supporting aREST directly with a REST binary sensor.

binary_sensor:
  - platform: rest
    resource: http://192.168.0.5/digital/9
    method: GET
    name: Light
    device_class: light
    value_template: '{{ value_json.return_value }}'

Accessing an HTTP authentication protected endpoint

The REST sensor supports HTTP authentication and template-enabled customized headers.

binary_sensor:
  - platform: rest
    resource: http://IP_ADDRESS:5000/binary_sensor
    username: ha1
    password: test1
    authentication: basic
    headers:
      User-Agent: Home Assistant
      Content-Type: application/json
      X-Custom-Header: '{{ states("input_text.the_custom_header") }}'

The headers will contain all relevant details. This will also give you the ability to access endpoints that are protected by tokens.

Content-Length: 1024
Host: IP_ADDRESS1:5000
Authorization: Basic aGExOnRlc3Qx
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Type: application/json
User-Agent: Home Assistant