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Israel Railways

The Israel rail integration will give you the next three departure times from a given location to another one in Israel rail.

Configuration

To add the Israel Railways integration 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.

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.
    • Choose your targets by selecting the Choose area, Choose device, Choose entity, or Choose label buttons. Update entity
  4. Save your new automation to poll for data.