Waze Travel Time

I have added the waze travel time and it seems to work well.
I took a look at my log though, and see a lot of errors.
Has anyone else seen this?
Is there something wrong with the service?
Or could it be my setup?

LOG:

2019-03-12 22:46:04 ERROR (SyncWorker_20) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-12 22:56:07 ERROR (SyncWorker_7) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-12 23:26:12 ERROR (SyncWorker_18) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-12 23:36:13 ERROR (SyncWorker_37) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-12 23:46:15 ERROR (SyncWorker_2) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-12 23:56:17 ERROR (SyncWorker_6) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-13 00:06:19 ERROR (SyncWorker_7) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-13 00:26:23 ERROR (SyncWorker_9) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-13 00:36:25 ERROR (SyncWorker_8) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-13 00:46:26 ERROR (SyncWorker_16) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-13 00:56:27 ERROR (SyncWorker_28) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-13 01:06:29 ERROR (SyncWorker_10) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-13 01:16:32 ERROR (SyncWorker_12) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-13 01:26:32 ERROR (SyncWorker_27) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response
2019-03-13 01:36:33 ERROR (SyncWorker_27) [homeassistant.components.sensor.waze_travel_time] Error on retrieving data: empty response

Here is my (simple) sensor:

- platform: waze_travel_time
  origin: !secret waze_home
  destination: !secret waze_work
  region: 'US'

Thanks!

I have the same errors (occured since 0.88.0) seems to work fine though. I also have a parsing error but this only occurs on startup.

It’s an error in the response from the server. Search the forums for another thread called “Waze Travel Time Update” in the Share your Projects section. This error is discussed and some attempts to fix it were discussed in the past 20 or so posts.

EDIT: You can try and chose a different region and it will force the component to use a different Waze server that won’t respond with that error, but your route calculations might be wrong.

There’s no way to fix it in this version.

This may work in the version coming soon. My response in that thread is jumping the gun in regards to an address issue.

EDIT: A safe approach that MAY fix the error temporarily would be to use the current version but change the line:

REQUIREMENTS = ['WazeRouteCalculator==0.9']

to

REQUIREMENTS = ['WazeRouteCalculator==0.6']

and run it as a custom_component.

I’m not 100% sure this will work because I believe that Waze changed the api. I can’t say for sure as I never looked into this prior to this release because the WazeRouteCalculator has never had problems before.

I get these in my logs as well. The sensors do seem to miss updates sometimes but the majority of the time they seem to be fairly accurate.

Personally I prefer logs getting spammed vs inaccurate route info by forcing the version which may or may not work.

I rely on these sensors to notify me of what my commute time will be in the afternoons and it has not failed me yet.

What you’re posting isn’t the waze travel time component. It’s an iframe card with a waze url. I recommend you create a new post.

Ah, yes, you’re right… i will post in right place…

i having terrible adding a name to my waze travel time – works great till i add the line name: my travel- under the word platform then it stops working . anyone know whats going on --thank
sensor:

  • platform: waze_travel_time
    origin: “address 1”
    destination: “address 2”
    region: ‘US’

what name are you trying to add? It most likely has to do with your characters that you are adding. I.E. wrap it in quotes if you have odd characters.

i tried with and with out Quotes

name: FL to WW
or
name: WW to FL

when added below platform
with no name seem to work great

the code should be:

- platform: waze_travel_time
  name: anything
  origin: 'address 1'
  destination: 'address 2'
  region: 'US'

if that doesn’t work you need to paste the error here.

ok i willl later – yea the name in my card does not show and i get a yellow ! instead of the info

here you are
working%201 working%202 not%20working%201 not%20working%202

Because your entity_id changed, when you changed the name…

ty – its the simple thing

Hi all,

I’m getting an error in the log file at star-up:

Log Details(ERROR): The waze_travel_time platform for the sensor integration does not support platform setup. Please remove it from your config. 

The sensor appears to otherwise function though.

- platform: waze_travel_time
  origin: !secret iphone_family_member
  destination: zone.home
  region: 'EU'
  name: Family Member ETT Home

Any ideas?