Anyone get the plotly graph working to config LD2420 mmWave sensor?

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Hi, I’m trying to get zones set up for my LD2420 mmWave sensor in Home Assistant, via plotly, and I can’t seem to get it to work.

I’ve set up the sensor in ESPHome. It works. I’ve added it to Home Assistant, and can see the distance and presence being detected.

Here’s the sensor ESPHome code:

esphome:
  name: esp32_bme688_test

esp32:
  board: esp32dev
  framework:
    type: esp-idf

logger:

api:
  port: 6053

uart:
  # Movement Sensor (LD2420)
  id: uart_bus
  rx_pin: GPIO16
  tx_pin: GPIO17
  baud_rate: 115200
  parity: NONE
  stop_bits: 1

ld2420:

select:
  - platform: ld2420
    operating_mode:
      name: Operating Mode

number:
  - platform: ld2420
    presence_timeout:
      name: Detection Presence Timeout
    min_gate_distance:
      name: Detection Gate Minimum
    max_gate_distance:
      name: Detection Gate Maximum
    gate_select:
      name: Select Gate to Set
    still_threshold:
      name: Set Still Threshold Value
    move_threshold:
      name: Set Move Threshold Value

binary_sensor:
  # Movement Sensor (LD2420)
  - platform: ld2420
    has_target:
      name: Presence

sensor:
  # Movement Sensor (LD2420)
  - platform: ld2420
    moving_distance:
      name : Moving Distance

I want to be able to:

  1. Get a visual feel for how it works, the angles, the distances. For this, I’d like to see myself move around on the graph.
  2. Define zones and limits/exclusion zones.

I’m trying to add a plotly graph, as I found advised in the HA forum and linked to here.

I’ve tried to follow the following guides/yamls:

I have a feeling there’s an issue with sensor names. But it could be that that code is incompatible with this specific sensor? Or this sensor doesn’t implement zones the same?

I’ve tried substituting the substitutions (eg. the “sensor.everything_presence_lite_name_” with “sensor.esp32_bme688_test” or with the name of the ld2420 sensor from my own yaml), but that doesn’t fix it.

Has anybody got this working with this specific LD2420 sensor? Or can you see what I’m missing?

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did you try with HLKRadar Tool app

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Hey! Yeah, I’d tried that. Forgot to mention it. LD2420 doesn’t have Bluetooth for my phone to be able to find it. I thought maybe it would find the ESP32, but it didn’t find that either.

This video is also for the LD2450, which definitely works, but I wanted to try it out with the LD2420 as I’d heard good things about it. But it seems zones aren’t available to be configured…