Google Travel Time Help

Configuration
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Would it be possible to manually enter in the origin and destination from the Frontend and calculate drive times based on those values? Or at least given 3 separate input_select values for origin and destination?

I’m sure this is completely off, but for an input_select example something like this for the sensor file:

- platform: google_travel_time
  api_key: API_KEY
  origin:
    value_template: >-
        {%- if is_state("input_select.google_origin", "Home") %}
            35.28352, -119.79375600000002
        {% elif is_state("input_select.google_origin", "Work") %}
            35.0583595, -119.71483319999998
        {% else %}
            35.1544745, -119.77298309999996
        {%- endif %}
        
  destination:
    value_template: >-
        {%- if is_state("input_select.google_dest", "Home") %}
            35.28352, -119.79375600000002
        {% elif is_state("input_select.google_dest", "Work") %}
            35.0583595, -119.71483319999998
        {% else %}
            35.1544745, -119.77298309999996
        {%- endif %}
        
  travel_mode: driving
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2

Did you find a way to get this to work?

3

Unfortunately not

4

I can make the value_template work with destination or origin. But it works with a template sensor.

5

You can use an input_text.
Use the frontend to write the address.

At the google travel sensor write this:

...
origin: '{{states.input_text.nameoftheorigininputtextsensor.states}}'
destination: '{{states.input_text.nameofthedestinationinputtextsensor.states}}'
...

This should work.

edit: I just realized this is 2 years old :smiley: