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Israel Railways

The Israel Railways integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] will give you the next three departure times from a given location to another one in Israel rail.

Configuration

To add the Israel Railways service to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

Manual configuration steps

If the above My button doesn’t work, you can also perform the following steps manually:

  • Browse to your Home Assistant instance.

  • Go to Settings > Devices & services.

  • In the bottom right corner, select the Add Integration button.

  • From the list, select Israel Railways.

  • Follow the instructions on screen to complete the setup.

The public timetables are coming from Israel rail.

Sensors

For each configured connection, the integration creates a set of sensors for the next three upcoming departures. The first departure sensors have no +N suffix. The second and third are labeled with +1 and +2.

  • Departure / Departure +1 / Departure +2
    • Description: Scheduled departure time from the start station.
  • Platform / Platform +1 / Platform +2
    • Description: Platform the train departs from at the start station.
  • Train number / Train number +1 / Train number +2
    • Description: Identifier of the train operating the connection.
  • Trains / Trains +1 / Trains +2
    • Description: Number of trains involved in the connection (1 for a direct connection, more when a transfer is required).
  • Departure delay / Departure delay +1 / Departure delay +2
    • Description: Delay of the departure in minutes, based on real-time data from Israel Rail.

If a departure time has already passed, that route is skipped. The sensors only ever show upcoming departures.

Defining a custom polling interval

If you want to define a specific interval at which your device is being polled for data, you can disable the default polling interval and create your own polling automation.

To add the automation:

  1. Go to Settings > Devices & services, and select your integration.
  2. On the integration entry, select the .
    • Then, select System options and toggle the button to disable polling. Disable polling for updates
  3. To define your custom polling interval, create an automation.
    • Go to Settings > Automations & scenes and create a new automation.
    • Define any trigger and condition you like.
    • Select Add action, then select Other actions.
    • Select Perform action, and from the list, select the homeassistant.update_entity action.
    • Add the entities you want to poll to the Entity field. The homeassistant.update_entity action only supports targeting by entity. Selecting an area, device, or label is not supported. Update entity
  4. Save your new automation to poll for data.