Waze Travel Time

The waze_travel_time sensor provides travel time from the Waze.

Unit system is by default set to the metric system.

Configuration

To use this sensor in your installation, add the following sensor section to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example entry for configuration.yaml
sensor:
  - platform: waze_travel_time
    origin: Montréal, QC
    destination: Québec, QC
    region: 'US'

Configuration Variables

origin string Required

Enter the starting address or the GPS coordinates of the location (GPS coordinates has to be separated by a comma). You can also enter an entity id which provides this information in its state, an entity id with latitude and longitude attributes, or zone friendly name.

destination string Required

Enter the destination address or the GPS coordinates of the location (GPS coordinates has to be separated by a comma). You can also enter an entity id which provides this information in its state, an entity id with latitude and longitude attributes, or zone friendly name.

region string Required

Choose one of the available regions from ‘AU’, ‘EU’, ‘US’, ‘NA’ (equivalent to ‘US’) or ‘IL’.

name string (Optional, default: Waze Travel Time)

A name to display on the sensor.

incl_filter string (Optional)

A substring that has to be present in the description of the selected route (a simple case-insensitive matching).

excl_filter string (Optional)

A substring that has to be NOT present in the description of the selected route (a simple case-insensitive matching).

realtime boolean (Optional, default: true)

If this is set to false, Waze returns the time estimate, not including current conditions, but rather the average travel time for the current time of day. The parameter defaults to true, meaning Waze will return real-time travel time.

units string (Optional)

Set the unit of measurement for the sensor in metric or imperial, otherwise the default unit of measurement is the same as the unit set in unit_system:.

vehicle_type string (Optional)

Set the vehicle type for the sensor: car, taxi, or motorcycle, otherwise the default is car.

avoid_ferries boolean (Optional, default: false)

If this is set to true, Waze will avoid ferries on your route.

avoid_toll_roads boolean (Optional, default: false)

If this is set to true, Waze will avoid toll roads on your route.

avoid_subscription_roads boolean (Optional, default: false)

If this is set to true, Waze will avoid roads needing a vignette / subscription on your route.

When using the avoid_toll_roads, avoid_subscription_roads and avoid_ferries options be aware that Waze will sometimes still route you over toll roads or ferries if a valid vignette/subscription is assumed. Default behavior is that Waze will route you over roads having subscription options, so best is to set both avoid_toll_roads and avoid_subscription_roads or avoid_ferries if needed and experiment to ensure the desired outcome.

Example using dynamic destination

Using the flexible option to set a sensor value to the destination, you can setup a single Waze integration that will calculate travel time to multiple optional locations on demand.

In the following example, the Input Select is converted into an address which is used to modify the destination for Waze route calculation from device_tracker.myphone location (It takes a few minutes for the value to update due to the interval of Waze data fetching).

input_select:
  destination:
    name: destination
    options:
      - Home
      - Work
      - Parents

sensor:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
       dest_address:
         value_template: >-
            {%- if is_state("input_select.destination", "Home")  -%}
              725 5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA
            {%- elif is_state("input_select.destination", "Work")  -%}
              767 5th Ave, New York, NY 10153, USA
            {%- elif is_state("input_select.destination", "Parents")  -%}
              178 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA
            {%- else -%}
              Unknown
            {%- endif %}
    
  # Tracking entity to entity
  - platform: waze_travel_time
    name: "Me to destination"
    origin: device_tracker.myphone
    destination: sensor.dest_address
    region: 'US'

  # Tracking entity to zone friendly name
  - platform: waze_travel_time
    name: Home To Eddie's House
    origin: zone.home
    destination: Eddies House    # Friendly name of a zone
    region: 'US'

  # Tracking entity in imperial unit
  - platform: waze_travel_time
    origin: person.paulus
    destination: "725 5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA"
    region: 'US'
    units: imperial    # 'metric' for Metric, 'imperial' for Imperial
    vehicle_type: motorcycle  # vehicle type used for routing
  
  # Avoiding toll, subscription
  - platform: waze_travel_time
    name: Westerscheldetunnel
    origin: 51.330436, 3.802043
    destination: 51.445677, 3.749929
    region: 'EU'
    avoid_toll_roads: true
    avoid_subscription_roads: true

Using the live map in an iFrame

If you plan to use Waze’s live map in Lovelace iframe then use https://embed.waze.com/iframe and not the live map URL itself.