Plugin: Travel Times

[mastair]

Created a very small plugin that let's you monitor travel times and delays (by car only for now) between A and B. Yeah I know, not so much to do with smart home he.

What you get:

• Sensor with current travel time in minutes (i.e. if you would leave right now)
• Sensor with percentage delay in relation to normal traffic for that time of the day

Why do you want that:

• You probably won't
• But maybe because you want to drive a RGB led with the current traffic congestion
• Or have your eardrums blown up by a z-wave sirene while at breakfast, because you really need to leave the house now to get on work in time

Prerequisites:

• urllib package (pip install urllib if you ain't have it)
• Google API Key - Get one https://developers.google.com/maps/docu ... et-api-key

Installation and configuration:

• Put complete folder from zip in plugins folder
• Add 'Travel Times' hardware device
  • In from and to add a descriptive text that gives a distinctive location as if you would search on Google Maps
• Set a not so small polling interval as free Google API Key gives you 2,500 requests per day only

Furthermore:

• If for any reason people are actually interested in this, I will probably make the code a bit nicer. Leave some feedback or feature requests if you'd like.

[Grove]

I was thinking about it this afternoon. Great idea. Something like a map where on the road it is busy will be a nice feature.

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[Derik]

Great job!!!
When i have time i will give this a try...
NICE .... for my work...

[CaesarPL]

Excuse me - is there any special way that I should 'install' this plugin or it should be automatically recognized by Domoticz?

After sudo pip install urllib I also get:

Downloading/unpacking urllib
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement urllib
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for urllib
Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log

Where is the issue, then? Should I install it through apt-get? python-urllib3 is already the newest version in my case

[CaesarPL]

Excuse me - is there any special way that I should 'install' this plugin or it should be automatically recognized by Domoticz?

After sudo pip install urllib I also get:

Downloading/unpacking urllib
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement urllib
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for urllib
Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log

Where is the issue, then? Should I install it through apt-get? python-urllib3 is already the newest version in my case

Ok, first of all I have to check it at home. Can't restart Domoticz remotely for some reason, which is necessary to see new plugin.

[qwerk]

Hi, I installed this plugin.
It is really nice.
I set the interval at 300 seconds. But almost every 30 seconds I get in my domoticz logging:

Error: Reistijd hardware (28) thread seems to have ended unexpectedly

Reistijd is the name I gave it.

any clue?

[mastair]

Hi, I installed this plugin.
It is really nice.
I set the interval at 300 seconds. But almost every 30 seconds I get in my domoticz logging:

Error: Reistijd hardware (28) thread seems to have ended unexpectedly

Reistijd is the name I gave it.

any clue?

It's a bug in Domoticz if you have large heartbeat intervals.

[mastair]

Excuse me - is there any special way that I should 'install' this plugin or it should be automatically recognized by Domoticz?

After sudo pip install urllib I also get:

Downloading/unpacking urllib
Could not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement urllib
Cleaning up...
No distributions at all found for urllib
Storing debug log for failure in /root/.pip/pip.log

Where is the issue, then? Should I install it through apt-get? python-urllib3 is already the newest version in my case

When you have placed the folder in the plugin folder you should restart Domoticz, and you should be able to create one on the hardware tab.

As for urllib, try if it works without pip install. You probably already have it.

[qwerk]

Hi, I installed this plugin.
It is really nice.
I set the interval at 300 seconds. But almost every 30 seconds I get in my domoticz logging:

Error: Reistijd hardware (28) thread seems to have ended unexpectedly

Reistijd is the name I gave it.

any clue?

It's a bug in Domoticz if you have large heartbeat intervals.

thanks for the quick reply.
is there a way to measure the heartbeat intervals and can I change them?
I am running on a raspberry b

[mastair]

The heartbeat interval is exactly the polling interval as you defined in the hardware settings.

Also, if you don't mind the error message in the log. You can leave the polling interval as it doesn't harm the plugin function.

[emme]

this is very intresting!!!

a possible feature (to reduce the API Calls) is setting up a time schedule for quering the traffic information...
example.... I'm suppose to go at work at 8.00am... so I will query from 7.30 to 8.00
it does not make senso to me to query the traffic at 5.00pm


P.S.
I'm willing to do the same with the Milan public transportation (ATM): undeground and surface lines status

[Mooseknuckle]

Hi there,
Thanks for the great plugin. Is it possible to make input fields for travel options? I use the train to get to work. I could change mode to "transit" and transit_mode to "train" in the file but maybe more ppl would like to configure it in the hardware tab.

Thanks in advance,

[corederoma82]

Is this plugin ok with Windows?

[mastair]

Yes, I only tested on windows.

[Failure404]

Hi,
runs reliably on Rpi2.
The only annoying thing is the repeating message in the log saying
"2017-07-12 17:55:13.479 Error: Travel (16) thread seems to have ended unexpectedly"
Every 30 seconds.
Nothing that can be done about this? I don't want to run it less than every 300 seconds.

[mastair]

As said, it's a bug in Domoticz, not the plugin.

[corederoma82]

Yes, I only tested on windows.

which is procedure for windows? And how associate the script?
Thanks

[Andree]

Plugin works,sensor will be update but the log is full of error!

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[Andree]

Plugin works,sensor will be update but the log is full of error!
TTTError.JPG

Help!

[mastair]

Still a bug in Domoticz.