I was given some Squeezebox hardware by someone at work. It works really well, aprat from the Duet remotes. They’re hard to see, and lose connection to the network too easily. I was despondent about this, as the Squeezebox kit and software is really good, but not being able to reliably control it was a PITA. I could use the web interface, but my work laptop can’t connect to my LAN for reasons.
I run HomeAssistant on some no-name fanless PC which has WiFi and Ethernet. I mainly access it over Ethernet, but it uses the Wifi to connect to my IOT SSID and expose its MQTT broker to the various Tasmota and ESP32 devices I have kicking around. The problem was that every now any then the Wifi would quietly crap out and all my devices would stop updating. I could do one of two things.