On November 29, 2021 at 22:42, ask4mikie said...
Prontos are really best suited, in my opinion, for IR control, either directly or with an extender. Although they can do IP control, you have to do the programming yourself at a basic level, using Prontoscript. (Based on Javascript.) Unless you have experience with sockets, http protocols, networking, etc., the water gets deep pretty fast. You could start with IR to learn the basics and add in IP later.
Agreed, I did want to get my 9400 doing some smart home stuff but a bit of lateral thinking led me towards home assistant running on a raspberry pi, I have a FLIRC attached to the pi with an emitter from my extender, a single IR code from the Pronto can execute complicated automations with any device supported by home assistant.