The Belgian public transport companies for railway and busses/metros opened up their data recently to the public.
Maybe somebody finds this interesting to create components for:
https://data.delijn.be/
http://docs.irail.be/#vehicle
Personally I do not get around by public transport, but it can be useful.
I do use Belgian public transport and it would be nice to have this integrated into home assistant (mostly the irail.be api)
That way i can glance in the morning if the car or the train is faster.
I tried to get it working using the iRail API but know too little Python unfortunately…
@geoffrey @T_L what would you like to get as state value from this component. Managed to set it up and retrieve data from irail in my lunch break:
i was looking into implementing this.
what would you like to have integrated?
1- a list of trains departing in a station? = https://docs.irail.be/#stations
2- a specific route (between 2 stations)? = https://docs.irail.be/#connections
3- disturbances? https://docs.irail.be/#disturbances
4- info in one station? https://docs.irail.be/#liveboard
i think 2 and 3 are the highest priority not?
I would also choose 2 and 3 as a starting point.
@thibmaek Really nice that you are picking this up and trying to get this working. I don’t know any python.
As the 2 mentions above. point 1,2 and 3 would be nice to have. I’m looking for a way to calculate the total travel time between 2 station with delays so I can easily see if the train or car (via the waze platform) is faster to work at the moment of departure.
OK! This already uses a connection between 2 stations but the specific question was what the state value should be: the total time it takes? Amount of delay on this connection etc. etc.
I’d link everything else that is relevant data as an attribute since you can only have 1 state field for a sensor.
Ideally for me the total time it takes (including the delay). So probably just like the waze travel time sensor where you get the time it takes to get to a certain location.
Alright, will split them up in multiple sensors like this:
- platform: nmbs
station_from: 'Brugge'
station_to: "Gent Dampoort"
station_live: "Gent Dampoort"
PS: Also working on getting De Lijn up and running, nearly there 
i will leave this component up to you, as you are far further then me
Cool. I have the live sensor pretty much done. Until I manage to make a PR to Home Assistant itself anyone can track the progress here: https://github.com/thibmaek/custom-components/blob/master/sensor/nmbs.py
iRail is great 
i used to do a student job for them.
But you might want to check out the official data from the nmbs.
As of today, you can request the official GTFS real-time feeds of SNCB! This is great news: our real-time feeds were only a scraped version of what was announced on their websites. If you now want to rely on a high-quality data feed of train disturbances and train delays, you can rely on their new feeds. Request this over here:
http://www.belgianrail.be/nl/klantendienst/infodiensten-reistools/public-data.aspx
i requested access
@thibmaek cool you also have the velo sensor integrated
we should get that one merged into HA
I requested this before and then needed to sign a Word document with a bunch of stuff I didn’t want to fill in.
Would rather use the iRail API.
Using this GTFS feed is probably also better with the HA provided sensor.gtfs platform
Chance that I’ll ever merge this again is small though. See this PR I previously made but closed: https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/pull/18276#pullrequestreview-172266227
Still, the custom component is available and works excellent:
how wopuld you pass 2 directions?
i want one for my daily track to, and one for my track back from work
Create 2 sensors:
sensor:
- platform: nmbs
name: "Work"
from: "Gent Dampoort"
to: "Brugge"
- platform: nmbs
name: "Home"
from: "Brugge"
to: "Gent Dampoort"
I had some errors in my log file today
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/cereal/home-assistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py”, line 221, in async_update_ha_state
await self.async_device_update()
File “/home/cereal/home-assistant/homeassistant/helpers/entity.py”, line 349, in async_device_update
await self.hass.async_add_executor_job(self.update)
File “/usr/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py”, line 56, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File “/home/cereal/.homeassistant/custom_components/sensor/nmbs.py”, line 144, in update
next_connection = connections[“connection”][0]
TypeError: ‘int’ object is not subscriptable
Using the config you provided, I get an error message
- platform: nmbs
name: "Work"
from: "Gent Dampoort"
to: "Brugge"
2018-11-16 14:01:17 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config] Invalid config for [sensor.nmbs]: required key not provided @ data['station_from']. Got None
required key not provided @ data['station_live']. Got None
required key not provided @ data['station_to']. Got None. (See ?, line ?).
2018-11-16 14:01:17 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config] Invalid config for [sensor.nmbs]: required key not provided @ data['station_from']. Got None
required key not provided @ data['station_live']. Got None
required key not provided @ data['station_to']. Got None. (See ?, line ?).