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If you want something inexpensive to play with, start looking at Zigbee devices. There are a variety of environmental sensors, plus motion sensors, contact sensors, and smart lights, sockets and switches.
You will need a Zigbee coordinator to get started, popular choices include the Home Assistsnt SkyConnect, SONOFF USB dongles, and Conbee II.
Building custom devices with ESP8266/ESP32 boards and ESPHome is also a lot of fun, there are plenty of projects for weather and air quality monitoring for instance.
Got the skyconnect and configured it into my podman HA! Now what to buy... ๐ค Project ideas so far: 1 Door and window sensors 2 Ceiling Fan and Wall switch 3 Fountain lights 4 Window shades Probably will go in order