LD2410 esphome tips

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I managed to get a LD2410C working with a Wemos D1 Mini Compatible ESP32 board and also got it to light up the internal blue LED when motion is detected. The LD2410C is connected using the UART pins (the pins marked TX and RX on the D1 Mini ESP32 board didn’t work and I had to use GPIO16 and GPIO17). Also the Bluetooth Proxy has been enabled for Home Assistant.

If it will help anyone, here is my config which got the LED working:

substitutions:
  name: "esp32-motion-sensor"

esphome:
  name: ${name}
  name_add_mac_suffix: false

api:
ota:

logger:
  level: INFO
  baud_rate: 0

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

esp32_ble_tracker:
  scan_parameters:
    interval: 1100ms
    window: 1100ms
    active: true

bluetooth_proxy:
  active: true
  cache_services: false

wifi:
  ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
  password: !secret wifi_password

uart:
  id: ld2410_uart
  tx_pin: GPIO17
  rx_pin: GPIO16
  baud_rate: 256000
  parity: NONE
  stop_bits: 1

ld2410:
  uart_id: ld2410_uart

binary_sensor:
  - platform: ld2410
    has_target:
      name: Presence
    has_moving_target:
      name: Moving Target
      on_press:
        then:
          - light.turn_on: led
      on_release:
        then:
          - light.turn_off: led
    has_still_target:
      name: Still Target

output:
  - platform: ledc
    id: onboard_led
    pin:
      number: GPIO2
      inverted: false

light:
 - platform: monochromatic
   name: "Onboard LED"
   output: onboard_led
   id: led
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