I am trying to figure out how to do this, but even though I read a lot in the forums or the docs, I couldnt make it work… I am not good at templating but I am even worse in time (which I believe it is a special learning skill by itself)… Anyway, I am having a sensor for my bus arrival with the sta…

Ok this is alittle long winded but it should give you what you are looking for. This assumes your sensor name is sensor.bus_arrival. Just change the entity_id and you should be good to go. Also, you need to have the time_date platform sensor to update this every minute, so that is added in the ya…

you need to use the false parameter in your timestamp_custom to ensure the time is local to you and not UTC. This is what I use for my setup. In this instance, a negative time would be the bus had already passed. {{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(states.input_boolean.xiaomi_switch_charging.la…

Try bus_arrival: friendly_name: "bus arrival" value_template: >- {% set minutes = ( as_timestamp(states.entity_id.state) - as_timestamp(now()) ) | timestamp_utc %} {{ strptime(minutes, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S').strftime('%M') }} min

here is something that might help a little in understanding time in Linux: [image] The EPIC Time Conversion and Manipulation Thread! Configuration After seeing many threads on the forum asking for help with time conversions and calculations using time and realizing I gene…

Thank you all guys for your help! I went for Petro’s suggestion and it works like a charm.

I want to use the same template for the next arrival. But there is a problem. The next arrival is an attribute in the sensor (sensor.bus_arrival.attributes.second_next_arrival) When there is no other bus coming after, the attribute is gone. So it has no state. It is not even “unknown”. Can you tw…

Can you post your full template and I’ll take a look at it.

I have copy-pasted yours from earlier. Havent changed anything but the entityid. :smile:

take a pic of the entity in the states page

[3] I hid some attributes for privacy. EDIT: The “second_next_arrival” is the one that is going away if there is no other bus on the way. I mean, it is completely gone.

Is next arrival time what you used in the template? Or second?

Time template for bus arrival in x minutes

Configuration

finity May 9, 2019, 11:47pm 5

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