This is a small script for displaying the upcoming arrivals of busses at a specific bus stop (in the uk).

This is meant to work with the inky phat pi top

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-phat?variant=12549254217811

It also (if you want it to) will output the results to the command line.

Follow these instructions: https://learn.pimoroni.com/tutorial/sandyj/getting-started-with-inky-phat

I found that I had to enable I2C (found in raspi-config / Interfacing Options) as a separate step.

Have a play and then...

You'll need to update the file example_config.json to config.json so that you may also want to add a different default bus stop.

I've used the api's here: https://api-portal.tfl.gov.uk/docs to figure out stop points.

To run so that it outputs to the console.

python3 inky_bus.py

To run on an inky phat you'll need to add --inky (or -i):

python3 inky_bus.py --inky "true"

Congrats you now know what buses you can get from a very specific bus stop that's near (ish) my house!

You can also turn off the output to the command line.

python3 inky_bus.py --cmd "true"

So to set it running in the background on a raspberry pi and not to worry about it...

python3 inky_bus.py --inky "true" --cmd "false" &

You can also override the stop from the config file.

python3 inky_bus.py --stop "490007732S"

I've gone with adding this to the crontab, this will have it run every 2 minutes.

*/2 * * * * /home/pi/git_repos/inky-bus/inky_bus.py -i "true" -c "false"

The data is coming from https://github.com/javieraviles/covidAPI

You can now run this as a covid-19 tracker (I'm still not sure this is a good idea). This will output to your inky (or with -c true your terminal) the details for a random country.

python3 inky_bus.py -f covid -i true

You can add the country name with --country (or -ct e.g. -ct UK) for a specific country: