Trafikverket Camera

The Trafikverket Camera integrationIntegrations connect and integrate Home Assistant with your devices, services, and more. [Learn more] shows images from the public traffic cameras of Trafikverket, the Swedish Transport Administration. Use it to check road and traffic conditions on your route in Sweden directly from your Home Assistant dashboard.

Each camera you add becomes its own entry in Home Assistant, with a camera entity showing the latest picture and sensors with details about the camera.

Use cases

• Check the road conditions on your daily commute before you leave home.
• Show a traffic camera next to the weather on your dashboard, for example together with the Trafikverket Weather Station integration.
• Get a notification when a camera you rely on stops working.
• Save a snapshot of the road at a fixed time every day.

Prerequisites

1. Register an account on the Trafikverket open data portal.
2. After you sign in, create an API key and copy it.
3. Find the camera you want to add on the Trafikverket traffic information map. Note the name or location of the camera.

Configuration

To add the Trafikverket Camera service to your Home Assistant instance, use this My button:

If more than one camera matches your search, Home Assistant shows a list of the matching cameras. Each camera is listed with its ID, name, and location.

For example, a search for Hisingsleden matches several cameras. To go straight to one camera, use a more detailed location, such as Hisingsleden norrut.

To add more cameras, add the integration again for each camera.

Reconfiguration

You can change the API key or switch to another camera without removing the integration.

1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the Trafikverket Camera integration.
2. Next to the camera entry, select the three dots menu, then select Reconfigure.
3. Enter the new API key or Location, and select Submit.

Supported functionality

The Trafikverket Camera integration provides the following entities for each camera.

Camera

• Camera
  • Description: The latest picture from the traffic camera. If Trafikverket provides a full-size picture, the integration uses it.
  • Attributes:
    • Description: A free-text description of the camera.
    • Location: Where the camera is placed.
    • Camera type: The type of camera.

Binary sensors

• Active
  • Description: Shows whether the camera is active.

Sensors

• Direction
  • Description: The direction the camera is pointing, in degrees.
• Photo time
  • Description: The date and time when the latest picture was taken.
• Modified
  • Description: The date and time when the camera information was last changed.
  • Remarks: Disabled by default.
• Photo URL
  • Description: The web address of the latest picture.
  • Remarks: Disabled by default.
• Status
  • Description: The status of the camera, as reported by Trafikverket.
  • Remarks: Disabled by default.
• Camera type
  • Description: The type of camera.
  • Remarks: Disabled by default.

Trafikverket Camera automation examples

You can use the camera entities in automations, for example to know when a camera stops working or to keep a picture of the road from a certain time of day.

Automation: Get notified when a camera stops working

If you rely on a camera to check your route, it’s useful to know when it’s no longer active. This automation sends a notification to your phone when the Active binary sensor has been off for 30 minutes.

• Trigger: State changed
  • Target: Hisingsleden norrut Active (binary_sensor.hisingsleden_norrut_active)
  • To: Off
  • For: 00:30:00
  • For at least: 00:30:00
• Action: Send a notification message
  • Target: My Device (notify.my_device)

alias: "Notify when traffic camera stops working"
triggers:
  - trigger: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.hisingsleden_norrut_active
    to: "off"
    for:
      minutes: 30
actions:
  - action: notify.send_message
    target:
      entity_id: notify.my_device
    data:
      message: >
        The Hisingsleden norrut traffic camera is no longer active.

Automation: Save a picture of the road every morning

This automation saves a picture from the camera every weekday morning, so you can look back at the road conditions on different days.

• Trigger: Time: At 07:00:00
• Condition: Time: Weekdays Monday to Friday
• Action: Take camera snapshot
  • Target: Hisingsleden norrut (camera.hisingsleden_norrut)
  • Filename: /config/www/traffic/hisingsleden_{{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}.jpg

alias: "Save traffic camera picture every morning"
triggers:
  - trigger: time
    at: "07:00:00"
conditions:
  - condition: time
    weekday:
      - mon
      - tue
      - wed
      - thu
      - fri
actions:
  - action: camera.snapshot
    target:
      entity_id: camera.hisingsleden_norrut
    data:
      filename: "/config/www/traffic/hisingsleden_{{ now().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') }}.jpg"

Data updates

The integration pollsData polling is the process of querying a device or service at regular intervals to check for updates or retrieve data. By defining a custom polling interval, you can control how frequently your system checks for new data, which can help optimize performance and reduce unnecessary network traffic. [Learn more] Trafikverket for new camera information and a new picture every 5 minutes.

Trafikverket cameras take new pictures on their own schedule, which can be less often than every 5 minutes. The Photo time sensor shows when the current picture was taken.

Known limitations

• Only cameras from Trafikverket in Sweden are available.
• The integration shows still pictures, not a live video stream.
• Each integration entry covers one camera. To follow several cameras, add the integration once for each camera.

Troubleshooting

Removing the integration

This integration follows standard integration removal. No extra steps are required.

To remove an integration instance from Home Assistant

1. Go to Settings > Devices & services and select the integration card.
2. Next to the entry you want to remove, select the three dots menu. Then, select Delete.
   • Depending on the integration, the entries are listed under one of the following headings:
     • Devices
     • Hubs
     • Services
     • Integration entries
3. To confirm, select Delete.
   • Home Assistant also deletes the devices and entities of the entry.
4. If Home Assistant asks you to restart, restart Home Assistant.
5. If Home Assistant asks whether to also delete the application credentials, select Remove or Keep.
   • If you keep them, Home Assistant uses them automatically when you add the integration again.
   • To delete them later, refer to Deleting application credentials.

If you no longer use the API key for anything else, you can also remove it from the Trafikverket open data portal.