After the connection power up ESP.
A new AP should be available on WiFi to connect to with name: SleepSensor
Connecting to the AP should open a webpage ( 192.168.4.1 )
Click to “Configure WiFi”
Insert WiFi Credentials + Mqtt Settings
If everything working there should be a new MQTT device available in HA with the name: SleepSensor
Bonus: If you give the http://ESP_IP/update (where ESP_IP the ip from the SleepSensor) in your browser you should get a page where you can flash a bin file to your esp allowing for OTA future updates.
I didn’t think I was going to find someone also working on this… I am happy to be your beta tester! I was trying to get their code over to ESPhome and realized that it was way over my head (don’t have any experience with UART sensors). Nonetheless, I have two of these and would love to get them working for presence and HR/RR detection.
I’ll work on installing tonight and let you know how it goes. Thanks for all of your work!
I had the same idea to use MQTT and did have some success creating a device and sensors in HA using that method. I’ve also managed to create a proper ESPHome integration if interested I’m happy to share. I feel like this is old so you probably found a way
That’s understandable, I’ve also shifted focus away from the sleep radar and I’ve made a fairly comprehensive Fall Detection integration for ESP instead. The FDA firmware seems to have better range and is further along in its development, and works much better as a presence/motion/activity sensor than the BHA firmware. I can’t make any claim as to the accuracy of the actual fall detection features, but it does seem to work in my tests.
