In this video I'm walking you through the steps I took to make a standalone version of my pellet level monitoring sensor that is not directly connected to Home Assistant but it functions separately .

Time-of-flight sensors used to be expensive obscurities, capable of measuring the travel time of photons themselves and often used for tracking purposes. However, the technology is cheaper now, such ...

You can do all kinds of wonderful things with cameras and image recognition. However, sometimes spatial data is useful, too. As [madmcu] demonstrates, you can use depth data from a time-of-flight ...