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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.

The JSON messages can contain different values like 1, "1", TRUE, true, on, or open. If the value is nested then use a template.

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

{% linkable_title Configuration %}

To enable this sensor, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml 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

{% configuration %} resource: description: The resource or endpoint that contains the value. required: true type: string default: string method: description: The method of the request. required: false type: string default: GET name: description: Name of the REST binary sensor. required: false type: string default: REST Binary Sensor device_class: description: > The type/class of the sensor to set the icon in the frontend. required: false type: string value_template: description: > Defines a template to extract the value. required: false type: template payload: description: The payload to send with a POST request. Usually formed as a dictionary. required: false type: string verify_ssl: description: Verify the certification of the endpoint. required: false type: boolean default: true authentication: description: "Type of the HTTP authentication. basic or digest." required: false type: string username: description: The username for accessing the REST endpoint. required: false type: string password: description: The password for accessing the REST endpoint. required: false type: string headers: description: The headers for the requests. required: false type: list, string {% endconfiguration %}

Make sure that the URL exactly matches your endpoint or resource.

{% linkable_title Examples %}

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

{% linkable_title 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: {% raw %}'{{ value_json.return_value }}'{% endraw %}

{% linkable_title Accessing an HTTP authentication protected endpoint %}

The REST sensor supports HTTP authentication and 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

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