# Is there anyone who has a solution for "SmartThings Changes To Personal Access Tokens (PAT) to 24h"? **URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-anyone-who-has-a-solution-for-smartthings-changes-to-personal-access-tokens-pat-to-24h/126384 **Category:** Apps **Created:** [January 3, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-anyone-who-has-a-solution-for-smartthings-changes-to-personal-access-tokens-pat-to-24h/126384 "2025-01-03T14:13:22Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 10
### Author: ![Peter\_Kawa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/peter_kawa/32/173848_2.png) [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa) #### Post date: [January 9, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-anyone-who-has-a-solution-for-smartthings-changes-to-personal-access-tokens-pat-to-24h/126384/10 "2025-01-09T20:23:11Z")
> [@Gervercom](#): > > if adding the use of a smartthings hub could be an option? This doesn’t seem to omit the need to use a PAT > [@Smartthings app?](https://community.homey.app/t/smartthings-app/35517/65): > > Hi, I’m a Homey noob, previously being a Smartthings user. Rather than moving all of my devices (mostly Fibaro switch modules, and a range of across to my Homey Pro hub I thought it would be easier and quicker to keep the Smartthings hub running in conjunction with Homey and user this app to bring everything in to the Homey environment in order to create flows etc. I have installed this app (I have tried it both from the Homey app site and GitHub), created and added a personal access token (u… > [@\[App\]\[Pro\] SmartThings Community (was the HCS version 2) Live 2.0.28, Test 2.0.33](https://community.homey.app/t/app-pro-smartthings-community-was-the-hcs-version-2-live-2-0-28-test-2-0-33/61418/374): > > It appears SmartThings have changed the rules for the PAT. Any PATs obtained now will expire after 24 hours and have more restrictions on the number of calls. I think this means the end of the SmartThings apps for Homey. The alternative to a PAT is to use OAUTH2 but each private key is limited to 500 users, which is nowhere near enough for Homey as my app has around 1500 users. It is possible to apply for a key with more users, but I got no reply to that, probably because I am not a device ma… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.homey.app/t/is-there-anyone-who-has-a-solution-for-smartthings-changes-to-personal-access-tokens-pat-to-24h/126384)._