Thanks, I was not aware of that either. Had the info entered, but never linked. I did link it, but have not gone back to enable yet. The waze sensor is working good. I’ll probably go ahead and put it back to google at some time in the near future though.
Brings up a side question. Anyone have any pros/cons of the waze vs google sensors
Only thing I can think of for waze is - No API key, or billing account required
Google allows for public transport times, that’s a pro for anyone not driving…
I rebuilt the waze app based on the google app’s functionality. So it should be identical in that regards.
EDIT: Waze does not do public transport though as @johnflorin said.
@petro The Waze Travel Time doesn’t seem to like zip codes, can you confirm?
My Config:
### Waze Travel Time Test
- platform: waze_travel_time
name: Travel Time To NYC Waze
origin: zone.home
destination: 10001
region: 'US'
Error Log:
2018-08-08 19:45:26 ERROR (Thread-16) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: Internal Error
FYI, for those wondering how Google Travel Time may compare to Waze Travel Time.
FYI, Waze can take upto two minutes to update, where as Google seems to be instant.
My Config:
### Waze Travel Time Test
- platform: waze_travel_time
name: Bruce Time To Home Waze
origin: device_tracker.bruce
destination: zone.home
region: 'US'It does not, the waze api doesn’t accept it. All we do is hand the origin and desitnation string to waze http api and it returns a 3 duration, route pairs. The api appears to only accept addresses, towns, cities, states, and lat/long.
to get back to topic, is the google travel time sensor broke…?
in my settings, credit card is added, and both static and traveltime are enabled in the dashboard, and were working until 2 days ago.
Not sure if updating to 0.75 helped, but since then all of my google_travel_time sensors fail to initialize.
any suggestions please?
After linking to my account as recommended here, it has been working for me. Definitely not intutive, but made sense once I did it.
thx, will try again.
Believed to have followed Google previous announcements and form filling…
am I correct this is the google distance matrix api? that google site is so confusing…
Yeah, I set it up, loaded my CC and thought I was good. Once you do that, then you need to link your API to the paid account. makes sense, You get to pick what count towards your credits, CC. Not automatic. It is confusing.
Thanks…
Adding a CC and linking it to the HomeAssistant project solved this riddle for me… now my travel time sensors work again!
does anybody know how much a single traffic sensor will cost after the free trial is over?
I I understand it correctly, you should not have to pay for a single sensor at all. I believe the cost of a pull is low enough that you could have 4-5 sensors running and stay under the limit. Don’t quote me on that, but that was what I had read somewhere.
I’m running with four sensors, and I’m comfortably inside the free limits.
I started having an issue over the past few days. I’m within the free limit and I haven’t changed anything on my end.
Mine is still working, I’m running 76.2. But I will say that mine was working and then just stopped working (a few weeks back), I had not made any changes. At that time I had not added CC info or associated HA to that paid account. I was (and still am) well within the free limit. I suspect that my sensors stopped working on a date set by google for my account. One that required me to finish setting it up. So, just making sure. You have set up CC info AND linked it like shown here?
not so sure about that…
I have 2 devices being tracked, and only a hand full of sensors based on these 2 devices.
yesterday I received my first bill…
total is still 0… but apparently I have spent half of the free credits (for a year ) in a month…??
had a look in the account and the rate is going fast: first 3 days in september already 21,- euro??
still says this though:
now what to make of that… so unclear and fuzzy
is that it then? I had 5 sensors and it stopped last week. Just logged into google to check and it says
“You have reached the free trial limit and your free trial is over. Upgrade before 1 October 2018 and we’ll restart your services.”
Anybody else still having issues with the Google Travel sensor? I’ve checked the Google API and I am getting hits on the project. I also had to restart HASS and one time sensor popped up. I restarted again to see if it would be persistent but now it’s gone. That seems to me that I have things setup properly within HASS to get results. But now it’s gone and I am 
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googlemaps/client.py", line 253, in _request
result = self._get_body(response)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/googlemaps/client.py", line 276, in _get_body
raise googlemaps.exceptions._RetriableRequest()
googlemaps.exceptions._RetriableRequestAnyone has any news regarding google travel? Or any other good service to use for transit information?
I just tried this sensor for the first time, my first ever request worked and I saw the sensor populate with a proper value. Every request after that got a 403 (forbidden) response 
If anyone ever solves this please let us know 
Really? Perhaps you forgot to read this https://community.home-assistant.io/t/how-to-help-us-help-you-or-how-to-ask-a-good-question/