Custom sensor component and lovelace card that displays upcoming departures from your defined public transport stops for Aachen.
This widget was forked from vas3k's repository and adopted to work for Aachen
The component consists of two parts:
- A sensor, which tracks departures via AVV Widget Service every 30 seconds
- A widget (card) for the lovelace dashboard, which displays upcoming transport in a nice way
We will look at the installation of each of them separately below. But first, let's learn how to find the Stop IDs.
- Go to this URL: https://abfahrt.avv.de/
- Choose your stop and desired lines
- Copy the value at the and of the link in
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1. Copy the whole aachen_transport directory to the custom_components folder of your Home Assistant installation. If you can't find the custom_components directory at the same level with your configuration.yml — simply create it yourself and put aachen_transport there.
2. Go to Home Assistant web interface -> Developer Tools -> Check and Restart and click "Restart" button. It will reload all components in the system.
3. Now you can add your new custom sensor to the corresponding section in the configuration.yml file.
sensor:
- platform: aachen_transport
departures:
- name: "Ponttor" # free-form name, only for display purposes
avv_widget_id: fIha9h4yt78VWMfViwcBLlPSLh5oYAee # actual AVV widget id for the API
- name: "Aachen Bushof" # you can add more that one stop to track
avv_widget_id: rhAYAkp7I0xEi5DwWuFB6SjaR23fgWO5
# Optional parameter with track id that show only transport, which stops at the defined track
# track: 1 4. Restart Home Assistant core again and you should now see two new entities (however, it may take some time for them to fetch new data). If you don't see anything new — check the logs (Settings -> System -> Logs). Some error should pop up there.
When sensor component is installed and working you can add the new fancy widget for your dashboard.
1. Copy the aachen-transport-timetable-card.js card module to the www directory of your Home Assistant. The same way you did for the sensor above. If it doesn't exist — create one.
2. Go to your Home Assistant dashboard, click "Edit dashboard" at the right top corner and after that in the same top right corner choose "Manage resources".
3. Add new resource with URL: /local/aachen-transport-timetable-card.js and click create. Go back to your dashboard and refresh the page.
4. Now you can add the custom card and integrate it with your sensor. Click "Add card -> Manual" or just go to "Raw configuration editor" and use this config.
- type: custom:aachen-transport-timetable-card
show_stop_name: true # show or hide the name of your stop in card title
max_entries: 8 # number of upcoming departures to show (max: 10)
entities:
- sensor.stop_id_900110001 # use your entity IDs here
- sensor.stargarder_str # they might be different from mineIf you want to change any styles, font size or layout — the easiest way is to use card_mod component. It allows you to change any CSS classes to whatever you want.
Contributions are welcome. Feel free to open a PR and send it to review. If you are unsure, open an Issue and ask for advice.
Since this is my small hobby project, I cannot guarantee you a 100% support or any help with configuring your dashboards. I hope for your understanding.
- If you find a bug - open an Issue and describe the exact steps to reproduce it. Attach screenshots, copy all logs and other details to help me find the problem.
- If you're missing a certain feature, describe it in Issues and try to code it yourself. It's not hard.