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seeking tips for using SEN0395 mmWave outdoors - Libraries, tips for reducing false positives, etc.

userHead Jon.M. 2026-04-28 04:01:12 26 Views0 Replies

Hello -

 

I am currently experimenting with the 24GHz mmWave sensor SEN0395 and have a few questions regarding outdoor use.  If anyone has info on this topic I would appreciate your advice!

 

Using the stock DFRobot library (https://github.com/DFRobotdl/DFRobot_mmWave_Radar) I was doing some testing with various distance settings where the antennas are facing out into an empty grassy lawn.  It seemed like when the wind / breeze picks up that the sensor would actually detect the grass moving even several meters away with no humans in the ‘frame’.  Is there any way to limit this type of false positive when you are trying to detect only human signals? We don't really want anything to activate unless there's a human in the field of view.

 

Second question - I stumbled on this slightly newer 3rd party library for the sensor but it seems like with the ESP32-C6 board I'm using it just endlessly reboots. (That's a whole other thread for some other time) But I was hoping to adjust the sensitivity settings on the sensor to try to reduce false positives, which this newer library supports, but the original library seems to only have distance and latency settings and no sensitivity. (https://github.com/MaffooClock/DFR_Radar)

 

OR are there other libraries to try?  Any other tips to use this sensor outdoors and only detect humans within say 3-7 meters away?

 

Thanks for any help!  - JM