https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c91Ve-g0J2U
https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=621855.0
"I managed to get much better results with these ROI(Region of Interest)/zone settings: Width=8, Height=8, opticalCentre[] = {167, 223}"
Andrea Fox's arduino sketch which adds mqtt to the existing Sparkfun amd ST code. https://github.com/Andrea-Fox/peopleCounter
Esphome components
Esphome official component for the vl53l0x as distance sensor
https://github.com/esphome/esphome/tree/dev/esphome/components/vl53l0x
Libraries
Sparkfun VL53L1X library
https://github.com/sparkfun/SparkFun_VL53L1X_Arduino_Library
Pololu VL53L1X library used by ESPHOME PR #1447 esphome/esphome#1447
https://github.com/pololu/vl53l1x-arduino