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Appreciate the response, it’s for a seap/evaporative cooler.

How about simulating the button presses? Would that be safest way?

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The safest way would be to have a SwitchBot press the existing buttons. But the existing buttons are part of your problem.

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It looks like it is these type of buttons

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Hard to tell from the first photo, if you take the board out of the housing (looks like it’s just held in with plastic clips) and turn it over to see the actual buttons you can possibly wire in relays to press the buttons.

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It looks like it is these type of buttons

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You should be able to wire a relay onto the legs of those switches and control it that way. Take a screwdriver, bridge two legs and see if the button activates, if it does and esp32 and a relay board should sort you out nicely.

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