Plotting target movment from mmWave sensor

[comkubus7]

Hello,Today, I had an interesting idea to display position data from an mmWave sensor for motion tracking. I currently have a basic Plotly graph working. However, I believe that using entities and storing values in variables might not be the most efficient approach, but it's what I have implemented for now. Or is there? And also, is it possible to display an icon inside the graph? An icon (for instance mdi:antenna) would be much nicer and easier than creating it over predefined data points... 😄

type: custom:plotly-graph
hours_to_show: 0.02
entities:
  - entity: sensor.everything_presence_lite_24ec8c_target_1_x
    fn: $fn ({ ys, vars }) => vars.targetx = ys
  - entity: sensor.everything_presence_lite_24ec8c_target_1_y
    fn: $fn ({ ys, vars }) => vars.targety = ys
  - entity: ''
    name: Target1
    x: $fn ({ vars }) => vars.targetx
    'y': $fn ({ vars }) => vars.targety
    show_value: true
    xaxis: x2
    yaxis: y1
    line:
      width: 0.75
  - entity: ""
    name: Positon of Sensor
    x: [0, 0, -300, 300]
    y: [300, 0, 0, 0]
    xaxis: x2
    yaxis: y1
    line:
      width: 2
layout:
  height: 450
  yaxis:
    fixedrange: true
    range:
      - 6000
      - 0
  xaxis2:
    type: number
    fixedrange: true
    range:
      - -4000
      - 4000

[dbuezas]

How cool!
You can hide the x axis if you want. Or offset it a bit so it doesn't overlap so you can still scroll it (that's a clever hack you created there!)

Regarding storing variables, you could use the "store_var" filter, but it does exactly the same thing.

Regarding icons, I don't think that will work, but you can at least show a marker.
One cool thing you can try is plotting this in 3d. I'm not sure if you also get the z axis, but you can always use time as the third dimension

[dbuezas]

See this example for 3d scatters

[dbuezas]

Ups, forgot the link #298

[dbuezas]

Regarding icons, here are some alternatives https://community.plotly.com/t/i-want-to-use-custom-icon-for-the-scatter-markers-how-to-do-it/6644