London Bus status

Porkiddo

It look good but it doens’t load. Any idea?

nwootton

Do you have an account set up at Transportapi.com?
Do you have an app_id and app_key set up?
Do you know the ATCOCode for the bus stop?

If you use the live api documentation here and put in the info you want to use does it respond without an error?

Is the info in your config the same as that you’ve used successfully in the live api docs?

Nick

nwootton

@Porkiddo

~~Just Had a look at the Bus stop module again. When it’s used with certain other modules, it appears to error when trying to render the DOM.~~

I managed to get it to fall over when used in conjunction with the commute module. I can see the data is coming in, I can see the params are correct, but an ‘appendChild’ error is being thrown when it tries to draw it on screen.

~~I’ll investigate more tomorrow and see if I can figure it out.~~

Nope I’m an idiot… the issue was a wrong location in my config “bottom_middle” instead of “bottom_center”

N

soqueen

HI there! Thanks so much for tackling this. I seem to be a mess and can’t get it to load. There must be some mistake in my config file as I get the error upon loading. I have checked off all the boxes in the troubleshooting - as in I have an app_id, app_key and I know the atcocode - I have verified all against the live api docs and it runs without error. I will try to load my config entry and see if you guys can help me spot what I entered wrong. Thanks in advance!!

nwootton

@soqueen I’d normally copy and paste the code into either my config or into jsonlint.com to check it’s validity. But, as you’ve posted a picture not a snippet, I can’t do that, so if I type it, it will not be the same as yours!

However, first glance you’ve got a ‘//’ on your header row (far left), nothing else stands out as being wrong.

Try pasting the entire config.js into jsonlint.com. That will tell you if the file is properly formed and highlight any errors.

If that comes back ok, try removing everything except the bus stop module and see if it still fails. If it does paste the reduced config and we’ll see what we can do next.

strawberry 3.141

@soqueen there is a comma missing after limit: 5

soqueen

That certainly helped! The code loads now and now it’s stuck on Loading bus info… time to recheck my api codes?

nwootton

@strawberry-3.141 good catch!

soqueen

Thank you both! I have gotten it up and running! Looks GREAT!

soqueen

@nmootton Hi there! Thank you for being so responsive! I had another question. I actually want to load 3 of these. I tried loading the module three separate times, but it just loads 3 of the initial entry, even though the atcocodes are different for each one. Any suggestions?