A realtime transit display meant for a kiosk with no user interaction. It shows realtime arrivals of MUNI and BART transit vehicles for nearby stations, Uber wait times and weather.
You can see the Realtime Transit Display in use at transit.bn.ee. Optionally, a raspberry pi can be used to power the display.
On OS X you can use brew:
brew install node
npm install
Copy config-sample.json to config.json
cp config-sample.json config.json
Add your wunderground token and Uber Token to config.js.
npm start
To setup a raspberry pi as a kiosk, see this post.
Follow all the regular Pi setup instructions for the basic kiosk as listed above. After testing and getting the BART arrival display to work correctly, comment out the @chromium --kiosk --incognito bart.blinktag.com/?station=16ST with the # to prevent the autostart.
Some things require
sudo, some do not. If anything fails, just retry it withsudo(SuperUser do) in front of it.
Overscan not working correctly?
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
scroll to the bottom for the config inserted by the NOOBS config utility and adjust per the instructions in the config.txt file.
We need to install an older version 0.10.xx of node.js in our user directory These are the Original Instruction I used as a reference.
Modified node.js instructions for the Realtime Transit Display
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
git tag
git tag will give you a list of all the versions
git checkout v0.10.9 [this is the last stable version of 0.10]
./configure
make
This will take a while . . . like 2+ hours
sudo make install
Then, check if node was installed correctly:
node -v
It will return your version if all went well. v0.10.9
Install npm.
sudo apt-get install npm
Then, check if node was installed correctly:
npm -v
It will return your version if all went well. 1.2.24 (1.2.24 as of 11/13/2014)
Go up one directory, back to your home directory, as you are still in /home/pi/node
cd ..
Copy the Realtime Transit Display code to your pi directory
git clone https://github.com/brendannee/Realtime-Transit-Display.git
Change directories in to the Realtime-Transit-Display directory
cd Realtime-Transit-Display
Or use a short cut!
cd Re*
Copy config-sample.json to config.json
cp config-sample.json config.json
Set up your own wunderground token and Uber Token and then add them to config.json with nano.
nano config.json
npm installation of required modules, (may have an occasional warning for empty repository fields)
npm install
Run the actual background application
npm start
View the site locally Visit http://localhost:3000 in your browser.
You can start Chromium in kiosk mode with the following command from the terminal
chromium --kiosk --incognito localhost:3000
After any reboots you will need to restart the application and Chromium. The easiest way to do this is via command line with two windows, one for the background applications
cd Realtime-Transit-Display
npm start
and one for
chromium --kiosk --incognito localhost:3000
Selecting your local BART station and the local Muni routes are all detailed in main.js located inside /public/javascripts/
Four letter BART Station codes are available here.
Brendan Nee [email protected] -- Code and initial README
Andy @zebadoba -- Detailed Raspberry Pi README
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