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Pulse Counter Sensor
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====================
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.. seo::
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:description: Instructions for setting up pulse counter sensors.
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:image: pulse.png
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The pulse counter sensor allows you to count the number of pulses and the frequency of a signal
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on any pin.
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On the ESP32, this sensor is even highly accurate because it's using the hardware `pulse counter
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peripheral <https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/api-reference/peripherals/pcnt.html>`__
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on the ESP32. However, due to the use of the pulse counter peripheral, a maximum of 8 channels can be used!
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.. figure:: images/pulse-counter.png
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:align: center
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:width: 80.0%
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.. code-block:: yaml
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# Example configuration entry
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sensor:
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- platform: pulse_counter
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pin: 12
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name: "Pulse Counter"
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Configuration variables:
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------------------------
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- **pin** (**Required**, :ref:`config-pin`): The pin to count pulses on.
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- **name** (**Required**, string): The name of the sensor.
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- **count_mode** (*Optional*): Configure how the counter should behave
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on a detected rising edge/falling edge.
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- **rising_edge** (*Optional*): What to do when a rising edge is
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detected. One of ``DISABLE``, ``INCREMENT`` and ``DECREMENT``.
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Defaults to ``INCREMENT``.
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- **falling_edge** (*Optional*): What to do when a falling edge is
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detected. One of ``DISABLE``, ``INCREMENT`` and ``DECREMENT``.
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Defaults to ``DISABLE``.
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- **internal_filter** (*Optional*, :ref:`config-time`): If a pulse shorter than this
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time is detected, it’s discarded and no pulse is counted. Defaults to ``13us``. On the ESP32,
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this value can not be higher than ``13us``, for the ESP8266 you can use larger intervals too.
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If you enable this, set up the ``count_mode`` to increase on the falling edge, not leading edge.
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- **update_interval** (*Optional*, :ref:`config-time`): The interval to check the sensor. Defaults to ``60s``.
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- **id** (*Optional*, :ref:`config-id`): Manually specify the ID used for code generation.
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- All other options from :ref:`Sensor <config-sensor>`.
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.. note::
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See :doc:`integration sensor </components/sensor/integration>` for summing up pulse counter
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values over time.
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Converting units
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----------------
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The sensor defaults to measuring its values using a unit of measurement
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of “pulses/min”. You can change this by using :ref:`sensor-filters`.
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For example, if you’re using the pulse counter with a photodiode to
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count the light pulses on a power meter, you can do the following:
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.. code-block:: yaml
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# Example configuration entry
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sensor:
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- platform: pulse_counter
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pin: 12
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unit_of_measurement: 'kW'
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name: 'Power Meter House'
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filters:
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- multiply: 0.06
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See Also
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--------
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- :ref:`sensor-filters`
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- :doc:`rotary_encoder`
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- `esp-idf Pulse Counter API <https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/api-reference/peripherals/pcnt.html>`__.
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- :apiref:`pulse_counter/pulse_counter_sensor.h`
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- :ghedit:`Edit`
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