Is Home Assistant the recommended default for smart homes?

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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
IoT Internet of Things for device controllers
MQTT Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking
NAS Network-Attached Storage
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
PoE Power over Ethernet
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
VPN Virtual Private Network
Zigbee Wireless mesh network for low-power devices

10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.

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