README.md

sensor.ctabustracker

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Show departure information from ctabustracker (Chicago Transit Authority).

This plafrom is based of the findings of @SilvrrGIT in this forum post

Installation

HACS

Add this as a custom repository and restart your HA instance.

Manual

To get started put /custom_components/ctabustracker/sensor.py here:
<config directory>/custom_components/ctabustracker/sensor.py

Example configuration.yaml

sensor:
  platform: ctabustracker
  api_key: 'dfshkdkf7333ykgdfk73'
  type: 'bus'
  lines:
    - stop_id: 77
      departures: 2
      name: 'Union Station'

sensor:
  platform: ctabustracker
  api_key: 'lk38vjklrj4nj'
  type: 'train'
  lines:
    - stop_id: 3045
      departures: 2
      name: 'Logan Square'

Configuration variables

key	type	description
platform (Required)	string	The platform name.
api_key (Required)	string	CTA Bus API Key or CTA Train API Key
type (Required)	string	Transit type: ["bus", "train"]
lines (Required)	list	List of lines you want to track.

Note: Bus times and train times each required a different API key.

Lines configuration

key	type	description
stop_id (Required)	string	Stop ID (stpid)
departures (Optional)	int	Number of future departures.
name (Optional)	list	Name of the HA sensor

Change Log

0.0.3

@ludeeus: Initial release.

0.0.3 (on HACS)

@jonochocki: Added easy install via HACS support.

0.0.4

@smcpeck: Added support for train lines.

• route config variable is no longer supported since the APIs don't need it was a "bus only" API parameter.

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contributor	support
@ludeeus
@smcpeck