Google travel time & proximity

Configuration
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I have an automation that send my wife a notification if I leave my work and head for home. As such (after a lot of testing) I finally have this working.

Basically it triggers hen I’m not at zone work and distance from home is <20 km and I’m heading towards. It then sends the notification that includes the Google travel time.

My issue: Although the proximity seems correct the Google travel time is still behind significantly.

Is there any way I can het the travel time to update more frquently or even better, to update at the moment it triggers?

2

Tyfoon, did you get anywhere with this?

3

Unfortunately not

4

I have experienced the same issue, the proximity seems to be more accurate that the Google Travel Time.

I use a combination of both with Google Travel Time used when I depart as a guesstimate of the arrival time and then the proximity as a warning just before I arrive home.

5

Hello,

Can you post your automation?
I have a problem while using proximity in a condition:

  • condition: or
    conditions:
    • condition: template
      value_template: ‘{{ states.proximity.phone_home < 5 }}’
    • condition: template
      value_template: ‘{{ states.proximity.phone_home == “not set” }}’

I want to send a message only when phone is less then 5km from home or “not set” but it’s not working for some reason.

E.

6

I could not get this to work with templates in the automation so I first created sensors and then the automation:

Added below to my binary_sensors.yaml:

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      enroute:
        friendly_name: enroute
        value_template: '{{(states.proximity.home.state | float) <= 20 }}'
        
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      towards:
        friendly_name: towards       
        value_template: '{{ states.proximity.home.attributes.dir_of_travel == "towards" }}'

Then created an automation:

  - alias: "Going home from work"
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.enroute
        from: "off"
        to: "on"
    condition:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.towards
        state: "on"
    action:
      - service: notify.mypushover
        data:
          title: "Attention"
          message: "XX has left work. Traveltime incl. traffic estimated at {{states('sensor.XX_to_home')}} min"
          target: ""

This is working fine beside the issue mentioned in the first post.

7

This is a big part of what I want to do to to put the heating on and off at home. Did it work?

8

yes it works

9

Is it still the same setup? I am quite new to it.
How do you link the google travel time?

10

It’ some time ago so I do my best:

First you need to setup zones (in configuration.yaml) and need a device tracker with GPS support (I use owntracks).

Then setup the sensor:

  - platform: waze_travel_time
    name: xxxx To Home
    origin: device_tracker.owntracks_owntracks
    destination: zone.home
    region: 'EU'

and:

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      towards:
        friendly_name: towards       
        value_template: '{{ states.proximity.home.attributes.dir_of_travel == "towards" }}'

  - platform: template
    sensors:
      enroute:
        friendly_name: enroute
        value_template: '{{(states.proximity.home.state | float) <= 20 }}'

And automation:

  - alias: "xxxx going home from work"
    trigger:
      - platform: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.enroute
        from: "off"
        to: "on"
    condition:
      - condition: state
        entity_id: binary_sensor.towards
        state: "on"
    action:
      - service: notify.mypushover
        data:
          title: "Attention"
          message: "xxxx has left work. Traveltime incl. traffic estimated at {{states('sensor.xxxx_to_home')}} min"
          target: ""
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