Padersprinter Home Assistant sensor

This sensor uses official API provided by Padersprinter in Paderborn, Germany.

Thanks to Piotr Machowski who implemented the MPK Kraków sensor. Obviously, Kraków, Poland is using the same information system as Paderborn.

Example usage

sensor:
  - platform: padersprinter
    stops:
      - id: 1000 # Hauptbahnhof
        lines:
          - "1"
      - id: 1001 # Westerntor
        mode: arrival
        directions:
          - "Gesseln"

Value for id can be retrieved from stations.md.

Configuration options

Key	Type	Required	Default	Description
name	string	False	Padersprinter	Name of sensor
stops	list	True	-	List of stop configurations

Stop configuration

Key	Type	Required	Default	Description
id	positive integer	True	-	ID of a stop. See stations.md
mode	string	False	departure	One of departure or arrival
name	string	False	id	Name of a stop
lines	list	False	all available	List of monitored lines.
directions	list	False	all available	List of monitored directions.

Dashboard

These sensors provides attributes which can be used in HTML card (recommend install via HACS): html_timetable, html_departures

• HTML card:

  type: custom:html-card
  title: Bus Hauptbahnhof
  content: |
    <big><center>Abfahrt lt. Fahrplan</center></big>
    [[ sensor.padersprinter_1000_departure.attributes.html_timetable ]]
    <br>
    <big><center>Echtzeit Abfahrten</center></big>
    [[ sensor.padersprinter_1000_departure.attributes.html_departures ]]

Installation

You can install manually or by using HACS (the easier way).

HACS

1. Go to HACS
2. Search for Padersprinter

Manual

To install this integration manually you have to download padersprinter.zip and extract its contents to config/custom_components/padersprinter directory:

mkdir -p custom_components/padersprinter
cd custom_components/padersprinter
wget https://github.com/AlbrechtL/hass-padersprinter/releases/latest/download/padersprinter.zip
unzip padersprinter.zip
rm padersprinter.zip

Padersprinter API

• Get current bus information per station in JSON format

  curl 'https://www.padersprinter.de/internetservice/services/passageInfo/stopPassages/stop' -X POST --data-raw 'stop=1000'
  

• Get all Padersprinter stations in JSON format

  curl 'https://www.padersprinter.de/internetservice/geoserviceDispatcher/services/stopinfo/stops' -X POST --data-raw 'left=-648000000&bottom=-324000000&right=648000000&top=324000000'
  

• Get current bus locations

  curl 'https://www.padersprinter.de/internetservice/geoserviceDispatcher/services/vehicleinfo/vehicles' -X POST
  

Acknowledgement

I would like to thanks to following projects. Without these great work this Padersprinter Home Assistant component would not be possible.

• MPK Kraków sensor
• Kraków TTSS-documentation
• https://aczepielik.github.io/post/kraktram/