MMM-PublicTransportBerlin - Public transport for Berlin and Brandenburg (departures)

[done]

@Jay
There is an ID mentioned in the readme

[Jay]

@done
the station ID in the readme of Berlin-Alexanderplatz indicates a “There are currently no departures.” message.
I think the readme is a bit deprecated, the modulename had to be reconfigered in the config as well.
All I need to know is, where can I get a list with the stationIDs? As I posted above, my source could be wrong for this task.
Any experience?

[done]

@Jay
Have you checked “How to get the stationId” in the readme?

I have no installation right now. Otherwise you could have my ID.
But as far as I remember it was pretty easy to get an id.
If it’s missing station names:

Zoologischer Garten
Osloer Straße
Ostkreuz
Westkreuz

Hope this helps.

[Beh]

Hey @Jay,
what did you have to change for the module name in the config?! o_O
I didn’t make any changes according this…

You can get valid station IDs via an easy cURL command as mentioned in the readme like this (you can do it from the mirror’s command line):

curl 'https://transport.rest/stations?query=alexanderplatz'

You just have to switch ‘alexanderplatz’ with your nearest station. This command will return all station fitting the search term.

[Jay]

@Beh
After the recent update from olexs (2-3 days ago), the module works like a charm.

[Beh]

Okay, I think there’s a misunderstanding here.

To make things clear for the future:
The Module from @olexs MMM-PublicTransportDB is not really the same as my MMM-PublicTransportBerlin. Olexs made some changes on the original module to use the data from DB (Deutsche Bahn) while my module is just using the data from VBB (Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg).

I think this could be the reason why the stationIds you used did not work @Jay. Since you used a stationId from VBB for DB data. I didn’t test this but maybe @olexs can make a statement to this?

[Dicous]

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[Dicous]

Hallo Gemeinde,

ich probiere es mal in Deutsch.

Wenn ich das Module hinzufüge, sehe ich nur noch ein schwarzen Bildschirm. Kann mir jmd helfen?

Vielen Dank.

/* Magic Mirror Config Sample
 *
 * By Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl
 * MIT Licensed.
 */

var config = {
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1"],

	language: 'de',
	timeFormat: 24,
	units: 'metric',

	modules: [
		{
			module: 'alert',
		},
		{
			module: "updatenotification",
			position: "top_bar"
		},
		{
			module: 'clock',
			position: 'top_left'
		},
{
			module: 'calendar',
			header: 'Berlin',
			position: 'top_left',
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
						url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/XXXX.ics'
					},
					{
						symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
						url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/XXXX.ics'
					}
									]
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'calendar',
			header: 'Basti',
			position: 'top_left',
			config: {
				calendars: [
					{
						symbol: 'calendar-check-o ',
						url: 'https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/XXXX.ics'
					}
				]
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'compliments',
			position: 'lower_third'
		},
		{
			module: 'currentweather',
			position: 'top_right',
			config: {
				location: 'Berlin',
				locationID: '6545310',  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org
				appid: 'xxx'
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'weatherforecast',
			position: 'top_right',
			header: 'Weather Forecast',
			config: {
				location: 'Berlin',
				locationID: '6545310',  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org
				appid: 'xxx'
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'weatherforecast',
			position: 'top_right',
			header: 'Weather Forecast',
			config: {
				location: 'Dieburg',
				locationID: '2937591',  //ID from http://www.openweathermap.org
				appid: '6f549a70275dff25b166f08f5ea012f7'
			}
		},
		{
			module: 'newsfeed',
			position: 'bottom_bar',
			config: {
				feeds: [
					{
						title: "Spiegel Online",
						url: "http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/tops/index.rss"
					},
					{
						title: "Kicker",
						url: "http://rss.kicker.de/news/fussball"
					}
				],
				showSourceTitle: true,
				showPublishDate: true
			}
		},
{
    module: 'MMM-PublicTransportBerlin',
    position: 'bottom_right',
    config: {
        name: "Ostkreuz",
        stationId: 900000120003,
        hidden: false,
        ignoredStations: [9100003,2342,1337], 
        excludedTransportationTypes: 'bus,suburban,subway',   
        delay: 10,
        interval: 120000,
        departureMinutes: 10,          
        maxDepartures: 15,
        marqueeLongDirections: true,
        showColoredLineSymbols: true,  
        useColorForRealtimeInfo: true,
        showTableHeadersAsSymbols: true,
        maxUnreachableDepartures: 3,    
        maxReachableDepartures: 7,
        fadeUnreachableDepartures: true,
        fadeReachableDepartures: true,
        fadePointForReachableDepartures: 0.25
    }
},
	]

};

/*************** DO NOT EDIT THE LINE BELOW ***************/
if (typeof module !== 'undefined') {module.exports = config;}

[yawns]

@Dicous
Did you install (git clone) the module into the right folder ~/MagicMirror/modules/ ? Did you also run npm install in the new subfolder ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-PublicTransportBerlin ?

[Dicous]

yes. i did:

pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/default $ git clone https://github.com/deg0nz/MMM-PublicTransportBerlin.git
Klone nach 'MMM-PublicTransportBerlin'...
remote: Counting objects: 184, done.
remote: Total 184 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 184
Empfange Objekte: 100% (184/184), 109.67 KiB | 0 bytes/s, Fertig.
Löse Unterschiede auf: 100% (110/110), Fertig.
Prüfe Konnektivität... Fertig.
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/default $ cd MMM-PublicTransportBerlin
pi@raspberrypi:~/MagicMirror/modules/default/MMM-PublicTransportBerlin $ npm install
MMM-PublicTransportBerlin@0.2.0 /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/MMM-PublicTransportBerlin
└─┬ vbb-client@1.0.0
  ├─┬ isomorphic-fetch@2.2.1
  │ ├─┬ node-fetch@1.6.3
  │ │ ├─┬ encoding@0.1.12
  │ │ │ └── iconv-lite@0.4.15
  │ │ └── is-stream@1.1.0
  │ └── whatwg-fetch@2.0.3
  └─┬ ndjson@1.5.0
    ├── json-stringify-safe@5.0.1
    ├── minimist@1.2.0
    ├── split2@2.1.1
    └─┬ through2@2.0.3
      ├─┬ readable-stream@2.2.6
      │ ├── buffer-shims@1.0.0
      │ ├── core-util-is@1.0.2
      │ ├── inherits@2.0.3
      │ ├── isarray@1.0.0
      │ ├── process-nextick-args@1.0.7
      │ ├── string_decoder@0.10.31
      │ └── util-deprecate@1.0.2
      └── xtend@4.0.1

[yawns]

No, you did not. You are in ~/MagicMirror/modules/default and not ~/MagicMirror/modules. Modules in default won’t be executed, the default area is “protected”.

[Dicous]

Thank You.
I am still a Noob
You made my day

[olexs]

@Beh This is correct. Station IDs are different between DB and BVG networks (and others, such as my local RMV), and I haven’t yet added a proper error message for “wrong” IDs, instead it fails silently. Getting DB IDs is a bit of a pain, too, I’m working on a small public interface for that. I’ll open a separate thread for the fork.

While I’m here: thanks a lot for your work! Without your code, my module would never exist. I’ve put an attribution in the readme, if you want it higher up just say a word :)

[Beh]

@olexs
You’re very welcome :smile:
I’m happy that someone had use for it, so the code is not useless :) I already noticed the attribution in the readme and appreciated it ;) Thanks a lot

[pauabaer]

hey guys,
i am still a noob. please be patient with me :)

i dont know how to get the station id. obviously i dont understand the api-documentation. can you please help me with this?

i have already installed the mmm-publictransportberlin module and the vbb-rest from github. but now i dont get on.

greets
pauabaer

[strawberry 3.141]

@pauabaer you have to open a terminal and execute the command curl 'https://transport.rest/stations?query=alexanderplatz' replace alexanderplatz with your station name or part of it. then your response will look like this

{"type":"station","relevance":1.0161290322580645,"id":"900000100003","name":"S+U Alexanderplatz","tokens":["sbahn","ubahn","alexanderplatz","bahnhof","berlin"]}
{"type":"station","relevance":1.0119047619047619,"id":"900000100006","name":"S+U Alexanderplatz/Grunerstr.","tokens":["sbahn","ubahn","alexanderplatz","bahnhof","gruner","strasse","berlin"]}
{"type":"station","relevance":1.015625,"id":"900000100005","name":"U Alexanderplatz [Tram]","tokens":["ubahn","alexanderplatz","berlin","tram"]}
...

so if you want to use the station S+U Alexanderplatz/Grunerstr. you have to use the id 900000100006

[pauabaer]

@strawberry-3-141
thanks! worked fine. Now i have a new question. is it possible to hide a line on a station instead of the whole station?

[strawberry 3.141]

@pauabaer I’m not sure if that is possible as no config option looks like that it handles this case.

But if it is e.g. a bus line and you want just display trams and subways you can exclude bus with excludedTransportationTypes

[pauabaer]

It is indeed a busline, but the station has only buslines. But one of these lines is for me irrelevant, that’s why I asked for that option. But it’s ok. It is a really good module. Thank you for this one!!

[Beh]

Hey, @strawberry-3-141, thanks for supporting!

@pauabaer:
currently there is no such function to filter out lines directly. Only to filter for stations, as @strawberry-3-141 mentioned. But I can implement that function if you want to have it. It’s not soo much effort I think… I can’t promise to do this fast, but I would try to find time for it ASAP.

If you want that feature, please open an issue for that on github, so I won’t forget it ^^’