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You can buy the sensors of aliexpress and link them with esp8266 via esphome (a home assistant addon) if you’re into it.
It’s fairly easy if you’re a tech savvy and will cost you next to nothing like 3 dollars each node which can have multiple sensors (temp / humidity / light / relay / etc).
It’s better to make dumb devices smart yourself to avoid being locked out. I literally cannot change the water level in my vacuum mopper if the server in china is down.
Have you links or eamples of the devices?
Yeah.
Link to check devices supported by esphome (which make it easy to configure in home assistant) https://devices.esphome.io/
Esp8266 Wemos D1 mini https://a.aliexpress.com/_c3y0qeA3
DH22 Humidity and temperature sensor https://a.aliexpress.com/_c3XQ9FsF
Breadboard to connect them https://a.aliexpress.com/_c4kYJrWB
Cables to connect them https://a.aliexpress.com/_c2zuMp5d