“Designing a product requiring three relay outputs led me to the Pimorni Automation Hat for for Raspberry PI. I am happy to say that the unit performs flawlessly and does the job exactly as required. I appreciate the LED indication of relay status and find it very helpful when testing the equipment. I have so far used 5 units and will certainly order more in due time. Excellent product and excellent shipping.
Per Berntsen
CEO Norant
Norway”
“The example code shows that it really does what it says it is supposed to do. The documentation is enough to get started but it would really be nice if there was a schematic available so you can gain enough understanding of how the board works to maybe write code for other languages than python.”
“I like this hat. It does what it can do quite well. The relays are well-behaved and work as advertised. I was disappointed in two respects, however. First, the 1-wire comm interface which I use was ignored. Secondly, the 40-pin GPIO interface was not passed up so that another hat or another interface could easily be made with the pins ignored by the automation hat. At least add a header on top so that those signals you don't use can be used by the end-user.”
“This is a very good product for those who want to interface Pi with the real world. Is is well made and works out of the box. The only gripe is that a manual with lots of code examples would be useful. There are only three examples on the web site. Some practical project examples would be very useful.
Good value for money.”
“I love the Automation HAT, but where is the documentation?
I have spent most of the day searching the Internet for more that the description, photo and basic software?
The silk screening on the board leave nothing to guess work. All the inputs/outputs are clearly labelled. As are the terminal connectors, but where do I find information about how to use them? Am I to guess that the tx/rx is a serial port?
I downloaded the library and ran the examples. I even modified one or two of them to
entertain myself. I can toggle the relays and LEDs, but what about the ADC. Where are the bits and pieces to control/read the converters?
New Product!
I hope to find the answers to my questions somewhere and this HAT will help me control my Solar system.”
