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petykowski / London-TFL-Arrivals-Board

Miniature Python-based TfL arrivals board running via Raspberry Pi Zero W
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Missing config file makes it hard to puzzle out the URL for station_url the Amazon S3 bucket. #8

Closed clockwatching closed 1 year ago

clockwatching commented 1 year ago

You've got your config.py (quite smartly!) excluded from check. Puzzling through the app_id and app_name settings was easy... but it took a while to figure out the third missing variable in the config was a URL for an amazon S3 bucket where you're pulling station info. That one I couldn't puzzle out.

This project looks cool, and I was interested because it uses the public TFL api. A few months back transportapi.com that Hutchinson uses switched the free accounts from 1000 queries per day to 30, so its sadly kinda useless.

petykowski commented 1 year ago

Hi @clockwatching. The third parameter in the config file is a URL to a .txt file on AWS which stores a JSON string with the parameters, station, direction, and updated_on. An example of the file is as follows:

{"station": "Seven Sisters", "direction": "Inbound", "updated_on": "2022-06-20T23:45:16+01:00"}

I keep this information in a S3 bucket so that I can change the station that is displayed on the arrival board via API call.

I hope this helps!

petykowski commented 1 year ago

Merged commit https://github.com/petykowski/London-TFL-Arrivals-Board/commit/d83c807ba08677d0a8766ff9a7b65627d2508b11 with an updated README.md file containing details about the station.txt and config.py.