I’m planning to build several WiFi connected devices for home automation: an AC remote control and air quality sensors. These devices would send data and be controlled through a local server. I’m considering two approaches: running custom software on a server PC (hardware to be determined) or integrating with Home Assistant’s protocols and purchasing their hardware. Would using Home Assistant be excessive for this use case?

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HA Home Assistant automation software
    ~ High Availability
    MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

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