The goal of this project is to detect the presence of people in a room and also count how many there are present in the room. To, eventually, with that information toggle the state of the light(s) and do other automation 'stuff'.
| Description | Expected date | Actual date | ☒ / ☐ |
Result commentary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delivery of the VL53L1X time of flight sensors | February 9 - 10 | February 10 | ☒ | |
| Checking if hardware is nondefective | February 10 | February 10 | ☒ | The I2C-device address differed from the SparkFun and Polulu boards. This meant that the address was needed to be set before the initalisation of the sensor. (0x29) |
| Dry testing using Andrea Fox's Arduino IDE sketch | February 10 | February 10 | ☒ | |
| Testing distance sensor esphome component PR #1447 | February 10 | February 10 | ☒ | See issue comment |
Steps to an ESPHome VL53L1X presence component
- https://github.com/Lyr3x/Roode has already done what I've planned / tried to do.