Brussels Public Transportation (STIB-MIVB) integration (API v2)

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Hi,
Just wanted to share my new script that publishes waiting times as json data to a mqtt topic which then can be used in Home-Assistant : GitHub - danito/stib2mqtt: Send realtime data from the Stib api v2 to a mqtt broker

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The integrations made by @Helldog136 and @Emilv2 are still working, but I wanted to check out their new API v2.
Update:
I rewrote the script https://github.com/danito/stib2mqtt/tree/main/stib2mqtt to use the new API v2.1 and creating mqtt autodiscover topics.
Add a list of stop names, no need to look for stop_ids anymore.

Update 2:
new script available on GitHub - danito/stibgtfs2mqtt: get real time data from STIB-MIVB api and offline data from GTFS that uses or GTFS or API data to create the sensor.
Stib API:

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GTFS + API:
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Daniel

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Thanks Daniel, I will try this.

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I just updated the script. It corrects some bugs and tries to catch connexion errors.

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Hi Daniel,

Everthing is installed but when the script runs, I get the following error:
Error loading script stib2mqtt.py: Line 314: ā€œnameā€ is an invalid variable name because it starts with ā€œ_ā€

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Strange. Do you run it with python3 stib2mqtt.py ?
Can you copy the output?

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I think I made a mistake, I just copy the files into the python_scripts directory and used the service python_scripts.stib2mqtt.
How to install this in ha ?

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Iā€™m afraid it doesnā€™t work in HA, itā€™s meant to run in its own session. I run it in a tmux session so I can run it forever. It pushes the data to my mqtt server and HA gets the data from there.
Maybe @helldog136 can have a look and make it a custom integrationā€¦

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Update: new version https://github.com/danito/stib2mqtt/tree/main/stib2mqtt

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@nxd4n I try the latest version of your python script but the command ā€˜python3 stib2mqtt.pyā€™ give me the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/stib2mqtt/stib2mqtt.py", line 8, in <module>
    import async_timeout
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'async_timeout'
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Hi,
did you try in install it ?

pip3 install async_timeout

You might need to do this for other modules.
And please re-download the script, I just found out that it didnā€™t update the second sensor. I just updated the git.

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And if you want to delete the entities, please uncomment the line 405

#j_config  = ""

so it sends an empty config string.

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Now I get this error message:

  File "/root/stib2mqtt/stib2mqtt.py", line 430
    continue
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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@nxd4n Hello, do you have any idea about the syntax error in my preview post ?

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yes, there was a missing ] on line 429. I have uploaded a new version.
Please try again and open an issue on Github if you have any other issues.
Thanks
Daniel

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@nxd4n
The module paho canā€™t be installed on my system:

root@odroidhc4:~/stib2mqtt# python3 stib2mqtt.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/root/stib2mqtt/stib2mqtt.py", line 16, in <module>
    from paho.mqtt import client as mqtt_client
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paho'
root@odroidhc4:~/stib2mqtt# pip3 install paho
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement paho
ERROR: No matching distribution found for paho
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pip3 install paho-mqtt

it would be too easy if the pip package has the same name than the module name.

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It works now. Thanks
Could you explain how to start this python in background at startup. Iā€™m on linux Debian

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There are several ways, but I have installed tmux (sudo apt install tmux).
This permits to launch a script in a sort virtual terminal that stays running even if you close your initial terminal.

pi@raspberrypi:/samba/shares $ tmux
pi@raspberrypi:/samba/shares $ python3 stib2mqtt.py
[ctrl + B D to exit the instance]

With

pi@raspberrypi:/samba/shares $ tmux a

you can return to this instance from any other terminal window.
Screen is also an alternative.

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hello, thank you for your work
I test it, and it working good ! i used tmux to maintain the session running but the probleme is the script stop after like 2 hours ! the stop behouvior is similair to clt - c

as workaround, i used cron to be sure that the script run, but i got another probleme with aiohttp connection, i got this error ā€œUnclosed client sessionā€

do you have any solution for this?

is there any project t intgrate this to custum componant of ha, to run it on hassio?

thank you very much

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Hi,
Iā€™m afraid thereā€™s a bug in the published version. As soon as a line is out of service, the script stops working (key errror). Iā€™m working on a new version which works with a different approach and corrects different bugs.
Iā€™m testing it now, and will soon upload it to Github.
Next step I will try to get a custom integration working.

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