MMM-KVV - Local Karlsruhe transport (KVV) departure times

Jay

As a Karlsruher I have to say, the MMM-KVV Script runs like a charm, big thanks to @yo-less !
One or two annotations and suggestions:
For me, it seems like that the maxConn (maximum amount of displayed connections) is limited to 10 even if a value higher than 10 is stated. So in practice, if you have to walk 7-8 minutes to the station, every of the 10 trains already departed. As a workaround, I determined a specific direction to get more possible choices, but only the amount of the 10 trains which head to the specified direction appear (mostly 4-6 connections).
Is there any way to exclude departure times (like exclude: now to departure in 5 minutes) or to extend the displayed connections further than 10?

Jopyth

@yo-less Nice module you have here, it would be a shame if someone … would steal it. :)

I am currently working on a departure time module for Berlin/Brandenburg, I like the layout of your module and would like to use a similar layout, and I guess the MIT license says yes, but I would still like to ask.

Also I have a few suggestions, which I either implemented already, or are going to implement for my module. Maybe you want some of these options, too.

You could allow users to use a custom header, maybe they want a custom name instead of the station name? E.g. check if this.data.header is set, and if yes, do not create your own one.
Also when version 2.1.0 of the MagicMirror is released, you can use the https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/tree/develop/modules#getheader function.
And no matter which of these methods you use in the future, it might be nice to have an optional small appendix (last updated: 12:30) to the header with the time the data was last updated at, e.g. something like a font awesome refresh symbol + the time in case of connection issues.

yo-less

@Jay Thanks for your kind words, I’m happy to hear somebody else is running the module on their mirror, I’ve been wondering whether someone else from our our region might eventually turn up here :). Should you run into any issues, feel free to report them here or over on the Github page.

Unfortunately, there is very little I can do to help you with your request. The data is pulled from the same dataset as the results you can see listed on http://live.kvv.de - try it for your stop and you will see that the maximum number of connections is 10 in your web browser as well. This is the way the service is designed, so if the KVV people decide to change their API at some stage to allow for more connections, the module should automatically pick that up and offer you more connections as well. If your stop is in the inner-city area, you are bound to end up with trams and trains that depart within the next few minutes. If your stop is only serviced by one line, you can normally see pretty well into the future :).

It would be possible to add a config option to only show trams that depart in, say, 5 minutes or later, but this would only shorten your list to the few of the 10 given trams that depart in 5 minutes or later. There is no way for me to add an option to extend the list of trams into the future by cutting the first few connections. This is something the API people would have to do.

I thought I had added this information to the readme, but I’ve just notice that I hadn’t, so thanks for that, will add this piece of information.

yo-less

@Jopyth Thanks for your interest in my module. As it says in the license, all you have to do is include the copyright notice, should you decide to base your module on mine. Good luck with your module development :).

Also, feel free to play around with it and submit a pull request, should you add additional features.

Thanks as well for your ideas on improving the module. I had originally toyed with the idea of allowing custom module headers but then decided against it as the way it works right now, you automatically notice should you have entered the wrong stop id, which is something that happened to me from time to time when I was still developing the module. If some people feel the need to change the header, I could see myself revisiting the idea.

The update timestamp might be interesting for some people as well, so I’ll consider implementing it. I wanted to have the module as uncluttered as possible and the more info you show, the easier it is to lose sight of what’s relevant.

Thanks again for your thoughts :). It’s always nice to have some fresh ideas to include in further development stages.

Jopyth

@yo-less Thanks! And the cluttering is an important aspect, indeed. Should definitely be optional and that is why I would think a symbol is nice, for less space usage.

4thaKids

@yo-less I installed your module, but it looks like, that there is an download issue. I will receive the information “loading” only.
What could be my problem?
thx in advance