I ran an apex for about a year. It was cool as hell. I also don't think I'll bother again. All the best equipment have good stand-alone controllers, and integration is a little overrated. Some of the things I did really appreciate: Keep skimmer off for n minutes after power failure, or after I turned off the return for any reason (I was planning to switch this to trigger off float switches instead, but never did), Disable (kalk) ATO if pH went too high, Turn off lights at a temperature threshold, etc.
But I feel like I spent half my time tweaking various settings - the software can be really finicky - and those features were never entirely stable.
I used a standalone doser at the time so can't speak to that aspect.
Anyway, this was an Apex classic a few years ago. The new ones probably have better software. And the Trident thing is wow. But so is the cost.
I'm going to be making heavy use of the new wifi "smart" power strips on my next build.
--ian
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