Brand with WIFI interface for Home Assistant?

Hi Patrick,
thank you for share your opinion. Based on your messagge i made some research. I like a lot ESPHome and i planned to use a bounch of them to manage rollershutter, fingerprint, read some input and write some output, but about clima was not an option. as I understand it the option you speak about is with the USB doongle connect to and manage by an ESP with ESPHome via WIFI. That’s a perfect solution, but this works only with the model you collect in the list here ?
And, the only way to increase the models\brands available is the broadlink solution via IR ?
Mmm in 2022 no standard solution for a clima system it’s really nonsense.
Thank you very much for the infos,