#🚀 [NEW INTEGRATION] NRW / KVV Public Transport - My First HACS Integration! 🚌🚇

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stray cypress
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Hey everyone! 👋

I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to share my first ever HACS integration with the community - VRR Public Transport Integration!

What it does: This integration brings real-time departure information for the VRR (Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr) public transport system directly into Home Assistant. Perfect if you live in the Rhine-Ruhr area in Germany! 🇩🇪

Features:
✅ Real-time departures with delays
✅ Supports trains (ICE, IC, RE), subway, trams, and buses
✅ Smart filtering by transport type
✅ Built-in rate limiting and error handling
✅ Proper German timezone support

GitHub: https://github.com/NerdySoftPaw/VRRAPI-HACS

Since this is my first integration, I'm sure there are things that could be improved or bugs I haven't caught yet. Please be gentle with me! 😅 Also, I'm not entirely sure if this kind of post belongs in this forum - if it doesn't, please let me know and I'll move it to the appropriate place!

Any feedback, suggestions, or bug reports are super welcome - I'm here to learn and make this better for everyone.

If you're in the VRR area and want to try it out, I'd love to hear how it works for you! And if you run into any issues, please let me know and I'll do my best to fix them.

Thanks for being such an awesome community - you've all inspired me to finally contribute something back! ❤️

GitHub
GitHub - NerdySoftPaw/VRRAPI-HACS

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vital latch
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Nice i forked dutch public transport some time ago. Your looks better. One note Can you also get the expected arrival time?

stray cypress
# vital latch Nice i forked dutch public transport some time ago. Your looks better. One note ...

Thanks 🙂

Currently you get the following Attributes

  • Line (Name of the Line like U76, 704 etc)
  • destination
  • departure_time (planned time incl. delay)
  • planned_time ( planned time in timetable)
  • real_time (Time the train leaved the station)
  • delay
  • platform
  • transportation_type (subway, train, bus, etc....)
  • description (what on the train)
  • is_realtime (true if realtime data provided)
  • minutes_until_departure
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and Fun Fact, a friend told me it also works with Cities out of the VRR Region like Cologne (incl. Real Time Data) and Berlin (without Realtime data)
so it seems to be not restricted on VRR only ^^

short pebble
stray cypress
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I've requested the API Access from Rheinbahn, let's see what they will answer

stray cypress
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Info: Integration is now Named NRW /KVV Integration.
Realtime Updates are available for NRW and KVV At the moment.
More will follow

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🚀 [NEW INTEGRATION] NRW / KVV Public Transport - My First HACS Integration! 🚌🚇

stray cypress
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@short pebble good news in version 3.2 now HVV is integrated

short pebble
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Wow, that are in deed good news. Will try out tomorrow.

short pebble
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Wanted to try out the integration. But it apparently does not load into system?

WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.helpers.translation] Failed to load integration for translation: Integration 'public_transport_de' not found.
ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.config] Platform error: sensor - Integration 'public_transport_de' not found.

What am I missing here?

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This is in my sensors.yaml:

##
## Public Transport
##
  - platform: public_transport_de
    place_dm: "Essen"
    name_dm: "Hauptbahnhof"
    transportation_types:
      - bus
      - tram