We want to bring the advanced TOF laser sensor to HA, which means now we can do some automation regarding the proximity of objects, this sensor has an advanced anti-jamming laser sensor that works pretty well at a range of around 2m, just use a TYPE-C cable that has been optimized by us with the simple EPHome firmware, and it can be plugged in to HA in less than 10 seconds to do some cool automation. I hope you guys get creative and share with us some of the cool things you can do with it. The sensor itself (VL53L1X) can also be used for head counting, the English sensor can distinguish whether an object is from the left to the right or the other way around, this feature is not particularly ideal in our testing, it can be counted vaguely, but if more than one person is together it is still possible to be recognized as one. We will further develop this feature if we have the opportunity. For now, let's concentrate on the matter of detecting the distance to the target, which can be automated precisely with respect to the proximity, which is a new possibility.
