The 511 — traffic cameras, incidents, road conditions & travel times in Home Assistant

Just made a HACS installable custom integration that pulls North American 511 traffic data into HA:

  • Traffic cameras — DOT camera snapshots as camera.* entities
  • Incidents — crashes/closures/hazards as binary_sensor + map markers
  • Road conditions — per-roadway surface status (wet, snow, ice, …)
  • Weather stations — temp, humidity, dewpoint, wind
  • Travel times — route estimates with delay
  • Message signs — live text from dynamic message signs

Covers 24 providers (US + Canada) across two vendor platforms — Wisconsin, New York, Georgia, Florida, Alberta, Ontario, North Carolina, and more. Most need that state’s free 511 developer API key; Alberta, Ontario, and the Iteris/ATG states (SC, MT, SD) publish openly with no key. There’s a companion dark dashboard for it too.

Install: HACS → ⋯ → Custom repositories → https://github.com/ihavespoken327/ha-the511 (category: Integration), or via the install button on the repo README.

Repo: GitHub - ihavespoken327/ha-the511 · GitHub

It’s still early days (v0.9.x), so feedback is welcome. Also: **your state not lis

ted?** Adding one is usually a ~25-line provider file — happy to help walk you through it or add it for you. Working on growing provider coverage and getting it HACS-default-eligible, so any testing/usage reports help a lot.

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