grizfyrfyter
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The apex integration already exists, through HACS, and is in fact "read-only"
AI-based Management of Aquarium stuff is crazy cool [Hydros, EcoFlow, ReefBeat, HomeAssistant]
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grizfyrfyter
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You could reverse engineer an integration that isn't read-only but kinda bold to call out software you haven't seen.
Is that to me? I was referring to the hydros integration I did was without any API available and isn't dependent on HA.
If you're taking it as in regards to the Apex, I don't have a specific comment on that, but if it's accurate that the apex things have a web UI, then without question it'd be possible to do the writes from automation as well. Worst case you have it use a headless browser to send clicks. More realistic case similar to the hydros reverse engineering one would reverse engineer the calls the browser is making and do it that way.
Likely even easier because it seems the apex has a local ip based UI.
grizfyrfyter
Supporting Member
Not targeted.
If anyone gets stuck using a headless browser for interactions or just probing to reverse engineer control, the Playwright MCP allows llm to "see" the actual UI that people would interact with.
As for actually having ai control things, there are pocket size models that can run on cell phone and would work for device automation if it's tools are well defined or even custom trained. You don't HAVE to pay openai, Google or Anthropic for model use.
Local LLM > more data centers.
If anyone gets stuck using a headless browser for interactions or just probing to reverse engineer control, the Playwright MCP allows llm to "see" the actual UI that people would interact with.
As for actually having ai control things, there are pocket size models that can run on cell phone and would work for device automation if it's tools are well defined or even custom trained. You don't HAVE to pay openai, Google or Anthropic for model use.
Local LLM > more data centers.