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Thermal camera for Home Assistant
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Very poor range #3

Open grego1981 opened 3 years ago

grego1981 commented 3 years ago

Using latest latest version from github for the sensor and from HACS for the HA component

Configuration

camera:
  - platform: thermal
    name: lr_thermal
    host: http://10.10.10.43
    min_temp: 20
    max_temp: 45
    mirror: true
sensor:
  - platform: thermal
    host: http://10.10.10.43
    scan_interval: 2
    sensor:
      rows: 8
      cols: 8
    state: max

Describe the bug

The sensor picks up cahnges for up to 60-70cm I'm using the grid-eye sparkfun breakout board on a Wemos D1 clone ESP8266 board. Is there anyhing more I can do to improve the range?

TheRealWaldo commented 3 years ago

@grego1981 I'm using: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001585288156.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4d2UGPyP

With a D1 Mini clone, albeit I'm not using the code provided here, I get a range in meters, at least 4 or 5.

If you're interested, I can post my code for the ESP; I've already posted the updated version of this addon to https://github.com/TheRealWaldo/thermal