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esphome
ESPHome is a system to control your ESP8266/ESP32 by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.
Have you considered Zigbee2mqtt[0]? You'd be running an extra program, but the docs are really good, it's pretty lightweight, and MQTT is incredibly easy to talk to from python or basically anything else.
[0] - https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/
I got a Sonoff RF gateway and flashed it with Tasmota. Now all the normal 433Mhz device work unchanged. My doorbell is unchanged, 3 year battery life and costs 10 bucks.
The doorbell sound does ring on a custom device. A esp32 with an I2S class D amplifier that can play an an arbitrary mp3 from a web server with an mqtt command:
https://github.com/mianos/doorbell2/tree/main/src
You might want to take a look at https://esphome.io/ for an easy integration of an ESP32/8266 into home Assistant.