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title: "First Bus"
description: "First Bus is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 94 installs sharing analytics, needs the vendor's cloud and was last updated September 9, 2026."
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url: "https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/bottlecapdave-homeassistant-firstbus.md"
last-updated: "2026-10-22"
version: "1.4"
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# First Bus

> First Bus is a Marketplace integration for Home Assistant. It has 94 installs sharing analytics, needs the vendor's cloud and was last updated September 9, 2026.

First Bus is an unofficial integration that shows the time to the next First bus at a chosen stop. It adds sensors to Home Assistant for each stop, named after the label given during setup. A stop is identified by its ATCO code, and the buses can be filtered to specific services or left unfiltered to show all of them. The filter can be changed later in the options. It was built because live times for the area stopped appearing in the UK Transport integration. Data comes from the vendor's cloud through a private API used by the First Bus website, so it could stop working at any time. It is set up in the UI.

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On Home Assistant 2026.11 or newer? [Open it in the Marketplace](https://my.home-assistant.io/redirect/marketplace_repository/?owner=BottlecapDave&repository=HomeAssistant-FirstBus&category=integration)

## Supports

- **Uses the vendor's cloud**: Needs an internet connection and an account with the vendor.
- **From the Marketplace**: Installed through the Marketplace, formerly HACS.
- **Actively maintained**: Its author released or pushed a change in the last six months.

## Setting it up

Install it from the Marketplace and restart Home Assistant, then add it under Settings, Devices and services.

### First Bus Stop

- **Name**: This is the name to help identify the stop. It will also be used in any created sensors. (sensor.first\_bus\_NAME\_OF\_SENSOR\_next\_bus)
- **Stop ATCO code**
- **Buses**: You can filter to specific buses, comma separated, or leave blank to see all buses

### After setup

- **Buses**: You can filter to specific buses, comma separated, or leave blank to see all buses

Texts from the code of [BottlecapDave/HomeAssistant-FirstBus](https://github.com/BottlecapDave/HomeAssistant-FirstBus).

## From the README

> Custom component built to bring you bus times for First Buses. This was built because buses in my area stopped having live times available in UK Transport integration, and time tabled based times were only available using the more expensive nextbuses call.
>
> This is unofficial and in no way endorsed by First Bus.

From the README of [BottlecapDave/HomeAssistant-FirstBus](https://github.com/BottlecapDave/HomeAssistant-FirstBus#readme), [MIT License](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html). Shortened.

## At a glance

- Kind: Marketplace integration
- Number: 94 installs sharing analytics; 12 GitHub stars
- Connection: Needs the vendor's cloud
- Upkeep: Updated in the last 6 months
- Needs: Needs the Marketplace (HACS on 2026.10 and older)
- Latest version: v2.0.5, last updated September 9, 2026
- Domain: `first_bus`
- Source: <https://github.com/BottlecapDave/HomeAssistant-FirstBus>
- Issues: <https://github.com/BottlecapDave/HomeAssistant-FirstBus/issues>

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Last updated 2026-10-22. Source: https://vulpo.app/integrations/marketplace/bottlecapdave-homeassistant-firstbus

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