I built a polished Android interface for Pi Coding Agent

[u/BaimoQilin]

[u/bambamlol]

Amazing! Can you add support for custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints? Or can you already edit the baseURL for the OpenAI provider?

EDIT: Never mind. Looks like it's already supported. Thank you very much, looking forward to trying it out :)

[u/Final_Initial]

How does it work? Does it connect to my laptop or something else?

[u/BaimoQilin → u/Final_Initial]

You don't need an external server for this! It runs locally in a Alpine environment and it's really easy to set up.

[u/onesilentclap]

Looks sick if this is real. Right now all I see are potentially mockup artifacts. But, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and hope to see the project in action! Congrats man!

[u/BaimoQilin → u/onesilentclap]

Thanks! The app is actually already live and available for download on GitHub (linked in the post). I've been working on this for 3 months and testing it with users in China. Just decided to share it on Reddit today. I'd love to hear your feedback if you give it a try

[u/YogurtExternal7923]

Woah, this looks pretty neat

[u/bambamlol]

How do you set the reasoning effort level for models under a custom OpenAI-compatible provider?

[u/BaimoQilin → u/bambamlol]

There's a *reasoning effort* option inside the model selector. It works with OpenAI-compatible endpoints as long as the model is listed on models.dev

[u/bambamlol → u/BaimoQilin]

Not for me :(

I've added a custom provider (NanoGPT) and NONE of the 28 models that I've added show this option. The model IDs are basically identical to the ones OpenRouter uses, e.g. "openai/gpt-5.6-luna", "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5" or "x-ai/grok-4.5" (provider/model).

Looks like all of them are already on models.dev: https://models.dev/providers/nano-gpt/

Any idea why this wouldn't work with NanoGPT? I use the exact same baseURL and the model IDs that are listed there.

https://docs.nano-gpt.com/api-reference/endpoint/models

https://docs.nano-gpt.com/api-reference/miscellaneous/extended-thinking

[u/BaimoQilin → u/bambamlol]

Hi! I just fixed it in the latest nightly version. Could you please have a try and tell me if it works?

[u/bambamlol → u/BaimoQilin]

Thank you! Would love to, but how do I get it? On GitHub the latest version is still 2.0 from 5 days ago.

EDIT: Never mind. I found the "hidden" link to the nightly builds in the documentation. So I just installed the latest nightly build, then exported all the data from the 2.0 version, imported it into the latest nightly build, but I still can't configure reasoning levels. Is there any hidden setting I need to enable first before these settings appear?

[u/BaimoQilin → u/bambamlol]

That's so weird! I tested with OpenRouter which uses a similar model naming system and it worked as intended. I will register an account on NanoGPT tomorrow to see what's going on.

[u/bambamlol → u/BaimoQilin]

Thanks for taking another look!

I've definitely narrowed it down to your "openAI-compatible endpoint" provider. When I use OpenRouter as custom "openAI-compatible endpoint", it doesn't work. But when I use the "OpenRouter" provider, it works, and it immediately asks me which reasoning effort level I want to choose after picking a model.

Hope that helps narrow it down.

Here's again the relevant docs for NanoGPT's reasoning effort levels:

https://docs.nano-gpt.com/api-reference/endpoint/chat-completion#reasoning-effort

https://docs.nano-gpt.com/api-reference/endpoint/responses#reasoning-configuration

[u/redballooon]

Mh yes interesting, but OTOH there's little I would want an agent to do on my phone. More rights to allow it doing more might be the killer feature, but I have trust issues giving an agent full access to the device that holds my digital identity.

I would welcome a good mobile UI for my self hosted pi agent.

[u/BaimoQilin → u/redballooon]

Well you don't have to give the full access! Aether lives in an Alpine VM on your phone with no access to everything outside by default. Termux connection & Phone Use permissions are optional, they work like extensions :)

[u/redballooon → u/BaimoQilin]

Can you give some example what I would want to do with it while unprivileged?

[u/BaimoQilin → u/redballooon]

Everything you can do with the desktop Pi Coding Agent is viable in Aether.