National Rail Integration

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Oops! How embarrassing. Yes, it seems I use a different integration.

It’s a different API as well (though presumably the same upstream source), so not sure if this one could be changed to include the service uid in the returned results.

I should thank you though, as your question prompted me to find a definite improvement to the data I can use in HA.

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Hi Guys,

I have forked jfparis’ national rail API and modified it. I have also created a custom card for my one.

Let me know your feedback. If it receives good feedback I will submit a pull request. My method uses different API calls so it will not work with the existing setups. (Maybe it should be kept seperate).

Integration:

Card:

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Your fork is to enable the card which you have created, or there are other modifications too?

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I pull arrival and departure times for each station as well as the current train location

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Cool, trying it out :+1:

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Sometimes a journey sensor becomes unavailable. If I delete that sensor and try re-adding it I get “Unexpected error”, but I can still add journeys to/from those stations to other places. So it seems like a periodic problem on particular routes. Have you experienced this?

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Hi Andrew

Which code base are you running? Whilst forking is totally welcome and encourage, perhaps we should fork this thread as well @plutomedia987

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Agreed, because in this case I am referring Pluto’s fork. I’ve not encountered this in the original integration, although I have not run them simultaneously to be sure it would not occur

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Agreed. Ill create a new thread for this. Ill have a look in to the unexpected and tag you in the new forum.

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Anyone else having issues post updating to 24.12 or is it just me (or the update could be a coincidence)?

Opened an issue on Github but essentially get this error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cgi'
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Hi
Yes, one of the dependencies had an issue with the upgrade to python 3.13. I fixed it last night and pushed a new version. Did you try that before opening the issue?

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I should have checked that first shouldn’t I…

Fixed now, many thanks.

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Probably. Although …
How do you install / update it? HACS (I don’t use that)?
Does it prompts you for updates?

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I think I had it installed as custom repo from HACS, but I don’t believe I got an update prompt.

I just updated manually today, (but should have looked first, apologies again).

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I’ve been using this successfully - thanks all for the work on it. One thing my fairly basic skills haven’t allowed me to do is to create an ‘arrivals board’ for a given station. I live near a fairly small station which doesn’t have a huge number of trains through it but they do come from a range of departure points. Has anyone been able to show planned arrivals to a given station rather than tracking them by individual departure points? If so I’d love to see some code. Thanks

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Love this integration and many thanks for the markdown card CarlBird provided - helped me understand a lot about how to query the attributes.

I’m a bit of a noob and wonder if there’s an easy way to show the trains sorted not by departure time but arrival time - i.e. not show a slow train before a faster train?

Thanks again.

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Hi,

I’ve started using the NationalRailUK integration.
It works for me, but I don’t know how to set up a nice departures board from my station.
Do you know where I can find some step-by-step instructions on how to do this?

Currently it looks like this:
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TIA!