Recommendations for BLE receiver

I’ve been tinkering around with some BLE temperature/humidity sensors and using cheap ESP32 devices as ad-hoc receivers. This approach works fine but I know there are some dedicated alternatives that could simplify my setup.

What can you recommend for a centralized Bluetooth Low Energy receiver that is compatible with Home Assistant? Anything to watch out for?

EDIT: To add on to my original post - I’m planning a new installation of Home Assistant on a HA Yellow device. If you were building one of these yourself, which Bluetooth adapter would you choose?

Are the ones with external antenna significantly better?

There’s this list in the Bluetooth docs: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bluetooth/#known-working-high-performance-adapters

And the lists below that on the ones not to get.

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Rad, thanks @tom_l

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