diff --git a/home-panel/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/secrets.sh b/home-panel/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/secrets.sh
index 37c13d2..0602b9f 100644
--- a/home-panel/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/secrets.sh
+++ b/home-panel/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/secrets.sh
@@ -3,5 +3,4 @@
 # Community Hass.io Add-ons: Home Panel
 # This updates the internal auth secret for the API
 # ==============================================================================
-# shellcheck disable=2094,2016
-bashio::jq /opt/panel/config/default.json '.authentication.secret="$(openssl rand -base64 32)"' > /opt/panel/config/default.json
+sed -i -e "s/API_AUTH_SECRET/$(openssl rand -base64 32)/g" /opt/panel/config/default.json