I recently had a talk with a friend who switched from ioBroker and he was baffled by how hard it was to make a standard API call to an endpoint in the (local) network.
I understand that most of API calls should be abstracted behind integrations but I think there still can be valid reasons to occasionally call an API endpoint.
The only way I saw was to define the call in the configuraiion which is a big ask for my friend. He claims in ioBroker this is very simple and can be achieved through the UI.
So my ask: Make it easier to make API calls to any endpoint from Automations and Scripts. Preferrably through the UI (maybe a sevice call?).
Thanks for your reply. I have seen this. Maybe I stressed my point not enough about the UI support. My main ask was to have a possibility to do what you say through the UI, like the way many other integrations have gone.
This allows less experienced users to more easily set those up. You could argue, that users doing API calls are likely a little more tech savvy but I still think there is merit to my point.
If you have made API calls before - within for example another Home Automation System - and just want to port your call it can be a bit daunting to dive into the config. And also, it can be confusing why it is so much harder to do compared to other systems where you can essentially just visually assemble a few blocks and the call is created automatically.