Using the ADC Pi with Home Assistant on the Raspberry Pi

This tutorial will setup the ADC Pi to use with Home Assistant Operation System on your Raspberry Pi.

This custom component is designed to run the ADC Pi Raspberry Pi development boards from AB Electronics UK with Home Assistant Operating System to add up to 32 analogue sensor inputs Home Assistant.

The ADC Pi is an 8 channel 17 bit analogue to digital converter designed to work with the Raspberry Pi. The ADC Pi is based on two Microchip MCP3424 A/D converters each containing 4 analogue inputs. This library uses our own ADC Pi Python library from abelectronics.co.uk/kb/article/23/python-library-and-demos

This component will enable the following platform.

• sensor: Show pin voltage via eight attributes.

I2C Support Required

First you will need to enable I2C support in the Home Assistant Operating System, we have a tutorial to enable I2C.

Installation and Configuration

To be able to install the custom components for the ADC Pi you need to be able to edit files in your configuration directory / folder.

We recommend using either the Samba add on or Studio Code Server which allows you to use Visual Code within Home Assistant.

Download the custom component from GitHub and extract to a directory on your computer.

1. Using your tool of choice, open the directory (folder) for your HA configuration (where you find configuration.yaml).
2. If you do not have a custom_components directory (folder) there, you need to create it.
3. In the custom_components directory (folder) create a new folder called abelectronicsadcpi.
4. Copy all the files from the custom_components/abelectronicsadcpi/ directory (folder) to the new abelectronicsadcpi directory (folder).
5. Restart Home Assistant

Using your HA configuration directory (folder) as a starting point you should now also have this:

custom_components/abelectronicsadcpi/__init__.py
custom_components/abelectronicsadcpi/sensor.py
custom_components/abelectronicsadcpi/ADCPI.py
custom_components/abelectronicsadcpi/manifest.json

Example configuration.yaml

sensor:
  - platform: abelectronicsadcpi
    name: ADCPi
    i2c_address: 0x68
    i2c_address2: 0x69
    pga: 1
    bitrate: 18
    scan_interval: 5  

Usage

Sensor Configuration Variables

The sensor component uses the following variables to configure the ADC sensor

Editing the configuration.yaml file to add the binary sensor

Using the text editor of choice open the configuration.yaml for your HA configuration.

Add a new sensor with the following code:

sensor:
   - platform: abelectronicsadcpi

Add the following attributes to setup the component:

name: ADCPi
i2c_address: 0x68
i2c_address2: 0x69
pga: 1
bitrate: 18
scan_interval: 5

Add the template sensor for the component to access the attributes:

- platform: template
  sensors:
    adcinput1:
      value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input1}}"
      friendly_name: "ADC input 1"
      unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
    adcinput2:
      value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input2}}"
      friendly_name: "ADC input 2"
      unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
    adcinput3:
      value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input3}}"
      friendly_name: "ADC input 3"
      unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
    adcinput4:
      value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input4}}"
      friendly_name: "ADC input 4"
      unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
    adcinput5:
      value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input5}}"
      friendly_name: "ADC input 5"
      unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
    adcinput6:
      value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input6}}"
      friendly_name: "ADC input 6"
      unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
    adcinput7:
      value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input7}}"
      friendly_name: "ADC input 7"
      unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
    adcinput8:
      value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input8}}"
      friendly_name: "ADC input 8"
      unit_of_measurement: "Volts"

The completed YMAL code should look like this:

sensor:
  - platform: abelectronicsadcpi
    name: ADCPi
    i2c_address: 0x68
    i2c_address2: 0x69
    pga: 1
    bitrate: 18
    scan_interval: 5

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      adcinput1:
        value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input1}}"
        friendly_name: "ADC input 1"
        unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
      adcinput2:
        value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input2}}"
        friendly_name: "ADC input 2"
        unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
      adcinput3:
        value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input3}}"
        friendly_name: "ADC input 3"
        unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
      adcinput4:
        value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input4}}"
        friendly_name: "ADC input 4"
        unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
      adcinput5:
        value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input5}}"
        friendly_name: "ADC input 5"
        unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
      adcinput6:
        value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input6}}"
        friendly_name: "ADC input 6"
        unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
      adcinput7:
        value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input7}}"
        friendly_name: "ADC input 7"
        unit_of_measurement: "Volts"
      adcinput8:
        value_template: "{{states.sensor.adcpi.attributes.input8}}"
        friendly_name: "ADC input 8"
        unit_of_measurement: "Volts"

After a restart you can now add the sensor into the user interface.

Demo UI Cards

type: entities
entities:
  - entity: sensor.adcinput1
  - entity: sensor.adcinput2
  - entity: sensor.adcinput3
  - entity: sensor.adcinput4
  - entity: sensor.adcinput5
  - entity: sensor.adcinput6
  - entity: sensor.adcinput7
  - entity: sensor.adcinput8