For what I know, there are only two manufacturers, where you can replace the cloud based service with a local only option - Midea and Mitsubishi (I don’t know, which one, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries or Mitsubishi Airco?).
All others seem to require some kind of internet connection to work. As I wanted to be independent from internet and cloud, I chose a Midea A/C and can’t report any problems in five years. Neither with the unit itself, nor with the ESPHome dongle to control it. It just runs smoothly and makes my life much easier (and colder 
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As Midea is a very big manufacturer of A/Cs, they do produce for different brands and label the units. That’s why we started a list to see, what brands and models are known working with the ESPHome dongle (self built or bought) locally:
In that topic you will also find the link to the support topic, where you can find a few links to plug&play dongles as well as guides to built it yourself (no soldering necessary). Have fun!