Closed andreimoraru closed 2 years ago
These are very good and also tough questions. We had a lot of discussions in our discord server about various breakout boards and behaviors. I can’t give you an exact answer as it seems to depend also a lot on your own environment. What I can assure is that brands like Wemos, SparkFun and Pololu deliver high quality products. I personally use wemos Esps as well as some clones and stick to the pololu vl53l1x breakout board which is working flawless.
I also can tell you that you should avoid cheap chinese products by any means. @jcastro had some trouble with the waveshare sensor, maybe he can also give an update
I am in the process of defining supported hardware and evaluate some stuff before writing it down. But that being said it Wemos/Lolin ESPs and Pololu sensors are in the support list
Added a section to the README in #55
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am interested to build the Room Detection solution and I am looking for some reliable hardware recommendations. The motivation to have reliable hardware is to avoid unexpected behavior down the road due to the fact that I have saved a couple of dollars on hardware.
Describe the solution you'd like I would like to have a list of recommended hardware that proven to be reliable. So far I have compiled the following hardware list but not sure which one to choose. ESP32 boards:
VL53L1X sensors:
Describe alternatives you've considered I studied the open and closed issues for this git project and so far found only a mention from a user reporting that waveshare VL53L1X sensor proven to be much more reliable than cheaper versions bought from some other stores.
Additional context I plan to buy hardware for room detenction for 5 doors in my house initially, hopefully later will extend to all other rooms.