vas3k/home-assistant-berlin-transport

Berlin (BVG) and Brandenburg (VBB) transport widget for Home Assistant

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home-assistant-berlin-transport's Issues

Custom element not found: berlin-transport-timetable-card

Hellooo,

I tried this promising integration, but somehow failed to get the card running. Its my first custom card without HACS, so its probably something I am missing.

I added the integration and can see two entities.

I added the card to www directory:

and added the resource:

but in the dashboard, I receive an errors

Thanks alot!

Restriction of the mode of transport

At one of the public transport stop, I would like to see only one view, for example, only buses.

What could I change in this code?

Error occurred loading configuration flow

Hi. Unfortunately after installation and HA restart I have such error message:

---

Logger: homeassistant.config_entries
Source: config_entries.py:809
First occurred: 22:54:09 (2 occurrences)
Last logged: 22:54:51

Error occurred loading configuration flow for integration berlin_transport: No module named 'custom_components.berlin_transport.config_flow'

---

2022-12-03 23:14:50.563 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config_entries] Error occurred loading configuration flow for integration berlin_transport: No module named 'custom_components.berlin_transport.config_flow'

---

Home Assistant 2022.11.1
Frontend 20221102.1 - latest

Install via hacs

It would be awesome if this integration can be installed via hacs as it would simplify the install as well as make it easier to upgrade the integration.

Have you considered supporting this?

https://hacs.xyz/docs/publish/start/

config_flow missing?

I can not install the sensor component following the documentation.

I tried the example configuration-yaml as well as a custom one with my own stops and ids. But whenever I want to add the entity "Berlin (BVG) and Brandenburg (VBB) transport" I get the following error in the home assistance interface: "Der Konfigurationsfluss konnte nicht geladen werden: {"message":"Invalid handler specified"}"

In the log file it shows "2023-02-09 09:41:57.597 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant. config_entries] Error occurred loading configuration flow for integration berlin_transport: No module named 'custom_ components berlin_transport.config_flow'"

I can not find the file berlin_transport.config_flow in the git - but I'm new to home assistant and do not understand (yet) the whole concept of flows.

Home Assistant 2023.2.3
Supervisor 2023.01.1
Operating System 9.5
Frontend 20230202.0 - latest

Caching API responses

As https://v6.vbb.transport.rest/ mentions, they support caching.

Caching-friendly[🔗](https://v6.vbb.transport.rest/#caching-friendly)

This API sends [ETag](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/ETag) & [Cache-Control](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Cache-Control) headers, allowing clients cache responses properly.

@vas3k do you know if this is something the custom component would benefit from? (I'm not sure if they reload every time the frontend card is triggered)

Also asking because there's a rate limit of 100 reqs/min

Wrong Lovelac Card

Hey together,

thanks for your integration. I follow your steps, but i doesn't got the lovely result.
I do it step by step and got the following result

Can you help me?

I'm new in Home Assistant and i hope to get some support of you.

THX
David

Canceled trips are displayed

Dear developers,

I have just noticed that cancelled trips (in case of train cancellations etc.) are unfortunately still displayed.

Perhaps further attributes of the VBB API can be evaluated in order to be able to display aborted trips or not to display them in the first place?

Entity:

VBB-Fahrinfo:

Installation on HA 2023.2.4?

Hi,
I guess I ´m doing something wrong, but I can ´t manage to install it correctly, and I get an error on the configuration when trying to re-start: "Invalid config for [sensor.berlin_transport]: [sensors] is an invalid option for [sensor.berlin_transport]. Check: sensor.berlin_transport->sensors. (See ?, line ?)."
I have copied the berlin_transport folder as per instructions:

and added this to my sensors.yaml:

Berlin Transport

• platform: berlin_transport
  sensors:
  departures:
  • name: "S Heiligensee" # free-form name, only for display purposes
    stop_id: 900091203 # actual Stop ID for the API
    direction: 900089303 # Tegel Optional stop_id to limit departures for a specific direction (same URL as to find the stop_id)
    walking_time: 8 # Optional parameter with value in minutes that hides transport closer than N minutes
  • name: "Ziegenorter Pfad" # currently you have to add more than one stop to track
    stop_id: 900091253
    direction: 900089303 # Tegel Optional stop_id to limit departures for a specific direction (same URL as to find the stop_id)
    walking_time: 7 # Optional parameter with value in minutes that hide transport closer than N minutes

Finally, I copied the berlin-transport-timetable-card.js file to www folder, and added it to the resources. (but I cannot see the card yet, I guess I have to re-start... which I can't as I get an error in the config.

help please?

Entity not available

Entities are not available since 14.12.2022 @17:35:24
Adapted berlin_transport to the latest changes as of 13.12.2022

Defining how far to look ahead

First of all, awesome integration, many thanks. Also, we seem to live in the same neighbourhood. :-D.

So, it says in the documentation:
After fetching the API, it creates one entity for each stop and writes 10 upcoming departures into attributes.departures.

The behaviour is a bit different for me. It seems to show all connections in the upcoming 5 - 10 minutes. Is there a way to define this time span? For instance set it to 20 or thirty minutes?

Display warnings

The API provides warnings like

				{
					"id": "213021",
					"type": "warning",
					"summary": "Störung.",
					"text": "Aufgrund des Streiks der Gewerkschaft GDL ist der Zugverkehr der S-Bahn Berlin von Mittwoch den 10. Januar 2 Uhr bis einschließlich Freitag den 12.Januar bis 18 Uhr massiv beeinträchtigt. Bitte mit Zugausfällen rechnen. Für Fahrten innerhalb Berlins nutzen Sie bitte die Verkehrsmittel der BVG (U-Bahn, Tram, Bus). Auch der Regional- und Fernverkehr der Deutschen Bahn sind von diesem Streik betroffen. Bitte informieren Sie sich entsprechend bei diesen Unternehmen.\n<a href=\"https://sbahn.berlin/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Information</a>",
					"icon": {
						"type": "HIM2",
						"title": null
					},
					"priority": 32,
					"products": {
						"suburban": true,
						"subway": false,
						"tram": false,
						"bus": false,
						"ferry": false,
						"express": false,
						"regional": false
					},
					"company": "VBB",
					"categories": [
						2
					],
					"validFrom": "2024-01-10T03:00:00+01:00",
					"validUntil": "2024-01-10T15:00:00+01:00",
					"modified": "2024-01-08T08:28:13+01:00"
				},

under departures[].remarks[] e.g. on this endpoint: https://v6.vbb.transport.rest/stops/900100003/departures

It would be nice if we could have them displayed in lovelace as well (I'm not sure how to achieve that though) Maybe a little attention mark on the line icon (not sure if this is an easy thing to do in CSS)

cannot hide name of stop in card title

Hi,

I changed show_stop_name to false but the title did not hide.
Am I missing something maybe?

type: custom:berlin-transport-timetable-card
show_stop_name: false
max_entries: 5
entities:
  - sensor.u_vinetastr_alex
  - sensor.u_vinetastr_heinersdorf

EDIT: not sure what happend, but suddenly I also had the issue , that the custom card was not found.
Just deleted the card.js and added the lovelace card from scratch incl. the ressource and now everything is working again.

Add logo on integration

According to https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2020/05/08/logos-custom-integrations/ a logo could be added here to make it easy to find: https://github.com/home-assistant/brands

Maybe this can be used? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:VBB-Logo.svg

Entity State Unavailable

Hi

I'm new to Home Assistant, and I'm trying to use this component but I'm getting the following error after creating the card:

"Entity State Unavailable"

My configuration:

• type: custom:berlin-transport-timetable-card
  show_stop_name: true
  max_entries: 8
  entities:
  - sensor.stop_id_900000171514
  - sensor.meraner_str

Home Assistant 2022.12.8

Unsorted list of upcoming departures

The API returns a list of departures in unsorted order, therefore next_departure returns not really a next (closest) departure, but rather a first in the returned list of departures. The widget shows the list in unsorted order as well.

Update API to V6

The V5 of the vbb transport rest API is marked as deprecated and currently not responding.