Home Assistant WAZE Integration and Map Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- After the wall mounted tablet video, I had a number of people ask me about how I pulled off a full screen 'Waze" page. This video shows you exactly how I did it, as well as goes over the Waze Travel Time integration (Since it's related and easy to setup! I complete this video with a basic automation to show how to set a light to differnet colors based on commute times.
Some of the stuff I mention in this video that will be helpful to know:
Numeric Trigger documentaiton - www.home-assis...
Waze Travel time documentation -www.home-assis...
See the Wall Mounted Tablet video here: • 5 things to know about...
Tablets being used in that video (and current pricing):
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Nice video. You can make this in one automation using the choice action and not entering a minimum or a maximum in the Trigger.
Thankyou!! I had a feeling there had to be a way to do that but wasn’t familiar with choice yet! I’ll pin this so others in the community can see this, that’s great to know!
Awesome tutorial! I also added a time condition so it would only run M-F between my commute times!
Oh that’s a cool addition!! Thankyou glad it was helpful :)
Potential improved automation would take the travel time from green to yellow to red on a scale, then set the color variably based on updates. You could also use a 1 min fade between colors so it doesn't look too choppy when updating.
Yes I like that! I’ll have to play with it more. It’s going to be useful as things open back up. I may chart the times in Grafana for a bit to show what the range is to have a meaningful idea of when to switch to Red...almost like traffic data analysis.
Awesome video mate, thanks for taking the time to do a tutorial. Keep up the great work mate
Thankyou!! Glad to help and thanks for the kind comment
You make this so easy to understand, thanks for the content!
Yay glad it helped! Trying to get more content out so it’s not as polished but I am learning the contents more important sometimes
Thanks a lot for your grat video. This is exactly what I searched for. The map showed beautifully, but there is no advise how to reach my destination. Also I don't see a traveling time to my destination. I'm pretty new, so could you please give me a hint to make it happen.To be honest, this is a solution I seached for lots of time. Thanks in advance
I'm glad it was helpful! The thing is this is limited by what the integration offers and the , so I'm not clear on if you'd be able to get advice on how to reach the destination. The traveling time should come from the integration (Timecode 2:45 in the video starts showing that).
This is pretty cool! I wonder iF there's a way of creating an average commute time sensor and have an automation based off travel time being above that,with Alexa tts?
Well that's my weekend consumed! 🙈
Sounds awesome, let us know! I’m sure there is going to be a way to do that
hello, first of all I really like your videos, I'm from Portugal but I watch it... I did this one and everything went fine except activation of the red and green color automations, I deleted everything from yaml to do it again but I never got it to stay if with entity sensors, it just doesn't show up... any help? this is fantastic and I really liked it.thanks
Great video! Is it possible to show the route your travel time is based on on the map? I have two completely different routes and I’m never sure which route to take. I would like to see the suggested route when I click the waze map instead of an empty map whitout entering the destination manually.
Thanks for the kind comment! I don't know if you can choose routes, I haven't seen anything in the API that allows that that I can figure out yet
@@geektoolkit Im not sure how to do it but there is a input Substring * that allows you to force the integration to use a particular route. Travel time is great but without knowning which one its kinda useless lol. Thanks for the info maybe i can figure the rest out if i do ill post it.
@@joshm3985 Did you figure this out? I agree with your comment, travel can vary depending on the route. I need to see the route.
Great video!
Thankyou!!
Thank you for this video🙂🍻🍻🍻
Glad it helped!
I entered in the information found in your video, at 5:12, but the waze sensor entity doesn't show up. Help!
They moved it from YAML to the UI. You should be able to add waze via the UI integrations now which is much easier! www.home-assistant.io/integrations/waze_travel_time/
@@geektoolkit Thank you for the video and response. I was actually hoping to go the YAML route so as to set something up that I could easily modify the point of origin (my phone or wife's phone location) to destination address/GPS. Still, even with the integration at present it is pretty solid.
Great video. 3 qeustions
1. If i only want to fire the automation on weekdays is that possible
2. can i set it from a time like 30 minutes to just be greater then the time it is now ie i need to leave now kind of warning
3. is there a way to make the map show the route
Thankyou! I’ll have to research a bit to answer all 3. For 1..yes, automations have conditions and date is one of them. For 2 and 3 I’m not sure, I’ll have to Olay with it more.
Thank for the video...
You’re welcome! Thanks for the support!
Great Video. Instead of a LED is there a way to change the minutes on the lovelace card form green to red?
Thanks! I honestly am not sure, I haven't done much lovelace customization (yet). One thing I think I'd consider is maybe a picture card, and then try to use the CSS based on state (or a different image even which could be cool..could have images of cars based on the time) www.home-assistant.io/lovelace/picture-entity/. I'll try it out when I get time and if I pull something off I'll do a followup
@@geektoolkit Thanks, Retro Gamer, Home Theater Guy, and Home Assistant Autonation... You are me in a different body.😎
Great video, easy to add the destinations. How do you get it to display the 'min' text after the time??
template card: {{states('sensor.yourwazesensor')}} mins
Thank you for this video, it has made things a whole lot easier in commute time. Just need to tart it up but the entity is there now. Oh with the waze screen, do you struggle with the screen using the two fingers to navigate? when i scroll around using 2 fingers, it interprets my gestures to refresh the screen.
Thanks! Glad it was helpful. A little bit. It wasn’t super clean. I use it mainly to see what events are there in my route or around my house, and one finger to drag to peek which has worked wel
@@geektoolkit how does your say 1 finger to drag? Mine says use two fingers? Also do you have any easy guide (or know about) people detection? I.e. Track where people are in the town? Would you make a video on that as nothing on UA-cam shows anything recent.
Ah in the upper right is an expand icon, if you hit that you can one finger drag and it seems to react better for me. I just tried with two fingers in fully kiosk browser though and didn’t see a refresh issue. Hoping that helps
Thanks for the video. what if i want to use another Region, say Africa? is it supported? cant find it in the documentation. Any ideas?
Glad it helps! From what I can tell the region is used for address searching. If you’re using Long/Latitude it may work just by putting in EU. I’d try that to see if it works. I also found that it appears to be working from this pypi module: github.com/kovacsbalu/WazeRouteCalculator
@@geektoolkit thanks. will try that.
Doesn't seem to work in Chrome (blank page) but works in Edge.
That’s wierd my understanding is they use the same rendering engine now. Do you have an ad blocker on chrome or something?
thanks for the video. doesn't a 30.5 duration value trigger both of them and just make the last one win?
It depends on what it was before. It triggers, from what I’m seeing, when it exits a range and then renters. I’m still playing with it to try to predict it a bit better when it’s on the borders. It seems like if it was say 32, goes down to 30.5, it triggers the “below” and doesn’t “retrigger” the above (because it was already in that range)
I can go to the Waze site and get the map I want, and I can grab the embed URL and paste it into another window and see the correct map, but when I add it to the card in HA all I get is a Waze labelled gray background with zoom controls and no map. Any ideas? Edit: I can get the same map up with Google Maps embed URL, but obviously without any traffic detail.
I'm not sure...that sounds like what I did. I know if I didn't use the 'share' portion to get the embedded url that I'd get similar behavior..it'd work in other browsers but not the . If you followed my steps and are getting different results I'm not sure what could cause that :(
@@geektoolkit It's unfortunate, but what's worse is now they've broken Waze Travel Time (as you use it here). They have a proper integration (since 2021.5.0) which imports the platforms from configuration.yaml, so you can then remove it. Except it is using origin and destination for the unique ID, which means you can't do CAR and TAXI between the same points. In my case I was able to get all three major routes between work and home (highway, toll, surface steets) until I upgraded and it only imported the first one. And I can't manually add more unless I want to subtly change either the origin or destination. Still not fixed as of 2021.5.3. Might be time to get a Google dev account and try Google Maps.
@@notthesnail Argh! I JUST made this video and they already broke it! sigh. And regressed it. I thought that if something worked in yaml they'd protect that functionality. Ok, well, part of the culture...they break, we figure out and fix. I'll give them a release though and see if they end up fixing it first, maybe I can do a UI followup if they allow for the same functionality that they had.
Hello,
nice video.
but when i try to do it on my system (waze maps), i get only a little map not full screen as yours ??
found solution. stupid me
Oh you’re not stupid at all! It’s a bit no -intuitive, that’s why I made the video. Was it just the “panel mode” setting? That ones tricky
@@geektoolkit yes it was.
@@lecocqe Cool, that bit tons of people, not just you. Glad you're up and running!