NEW UK bus & train component: Beta testers required

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This add on looks very useful. Would there be a way to just look for a specific train. E.g I get the 8.15 everyday and only really want to know whether that one.is running on time.
Thanks

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Yes see https://www.hackster.io/robin-cole/traffic-light-alerts-for-my-morning-train-350a27

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Amazing, thankyou!

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How do you set the scan interval for a specific time, like you metnioned? Ie. weekdays between 7-9am?

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Hi @sentur this isn’t implemented yet but I’m willing to do so. My idea is to add a service to allow setting the scan interval from automations. Will have a go when I get time.

In the meantime, if you need a faster update from 7-9am you could just set a higher SCAN_INTERVAL in your sensor config. You get 1000 API calls per day, so if you doubled your scan interval you would just use up your daily allowance at midday.

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Thanks. Having granular control of when the sensor refreshes would be perfect. +1 from me.

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Hello.

Since there is now a way to use lovelace with your cracking component I am putting this back in place. I have 3 bus routes all going from different places but all to the same destination. So the sensors are names xxxx_middlesbrough_1 _2 _3 which is fine, but I group 2 of them in the same stack as they are from the same location but different stops.

However the names of the stops swap around, so _1 is_2 etc? Is there another way to name them differently please? i.e. Middlesbrough_co Middlesbrough_po so they don’t switch around

Does this make sense? :smiley:

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HI @MarkR you are asking can the component name the entities differently?

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yeah I guess I am, if not it is no big deal. I was hoping to name them say

name: Route 12

like I said no big deal if not

Thanks

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You can rename entities from the HA UI, have you given it a try?

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I have and it doesn’t allow it? I must be missing something as I used to be able to change names etc…

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For people using this component for train info, checkout the live map of trains moving on the network at https://www.map.signalbox.io/ The colour indicates whether the train is on time. I added to HA using an ipanel with:

panel_iframe:
  signalbox:
    title: Signalbox
    icon: mdi:speedometer
    url: https://www.map.signalbox.io/

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More great work. Are there any more plans on implementing a service so that theres more granular control of scanning via an automation?

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I think that functionality was added to all REST sensors a couple of releases back

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This is great and with 100 free calls with an Innovator api I feel sure there is a deeper HA use here :wink:

Have you found a way to get the map to be centred at a specific location when opening the webpage?

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Brilliant. Is that through the homeassistant.update_entity service?

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@sentur yes

@klogg I am sure it is possible to inject the correct coordinates, but I don’t know how myself, will do some googling

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I’m guessing you had no luck on this?

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I did not try, probably a front-end dev would know how to do this

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Quite an old thread but this could be of interest

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