Philips Walita 5000 XL Airfryer, works connected to WiFi and is compatible with Alexa, being possible through its skill to adjust temperature, time, pause, turn on, etc. Would it be possible to create a drive edge for it to be compatible with SmartThings? Just like they did for older LG TVs that work very well.
Depends on whether the device exposes a local API/interface for a LAN edge driver to communicate with. I believe Alexa integrations are cloud to cloud so it’s more likely a ST cloud->cloud integration could be developed, however, that would be on the device vendor to develop.
How do you check if it exposes local API?
According to this discussion in the Home Assistant forum, it’s a cloud integration and while the API is simple, the authentication is not. It is possible to write Edge drivers that can call HTTP/S URIs, but hubs can only communicate with the local LAN on RFC1918 IP addresses. To reach public IP addresses and communicate outside of the local LAN, you would need a proxy.
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