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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.