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

derhuerst

hey folks!

i am the developer and maintainer of the (inofficial) REST API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport at vbb.transport.rest (previously transport.rest). I would like to clarify a few things.

First of all: I’m not involved with MagicMirrors projects in any way, I just noticed that a lot of you are using my API.

If you haven’t updated your setup for a while, please do so. I shut off the old endpoint transport.rest in favour of the new vbb.transport.rest a while ago.

@Beh I wrote a JavaScript client for DB that should be mostly compatible with the VBB one, give it a shot! It should be possible to adapt the magic mirror to use it, if someone can run an API server for it. See https://github.com/derhuerst/db-hafas

If you are interested in DB station IDs, I automatically compile a list from the 3 APIs DB provides, but it is not complete. See https://github.com/derhuerst/db-stations

Tekki

Hallo,
ich möchte das Modul MMM-PubliTransportDB einsetzen. Dieses habe ich installiert und die Config angepass. Es wird mir auf dem Mirror jedoch nur Loading… angezeigt. Das ganze läuft auf einem Rpi 3.
Anbei noch die Config die nutzen möchte.

  	{
    module: 'MMM-PublicTransportDB',
    position: 'top_right',
    config: {
        name: "Günzburg",
        stationId: 8000139,
        hidden: false,
	ignoredStations: [],
        ignoredLines: [],               
        excludedTransportationTypes: '',   
        delay: 0,
        interval: 120000,
        departureMinutes: 2,          
        maxDepartures: 15,
        marqueeLongDirections: true,
        showColoredLineSymbols: true,  
        useColorForRealtimeInfo: true,
        showTableHeaders: true,
        showTableHeadersAsSymbols: true,
        maxUnreachableDepartures: 3,    
        maxReachableDepartures: 7,
        fadeUnreachableDepartures: true,
        fadeReachableDepartures: true,
        fadePointForReachableDepartures: 0.25
    }
},

Vielen Dank
Ralph

gekberlin

@M1dn8 said in MMM-PublicTransportBerlin - Public transport for Berlin and Brandenburg (departures):

Hey @Beh,

thank u for ur big updates last days works great for me.

My problem is…my station has only 1 Tramline and your module show me departures in both directions but I only need one direction cause the other way is the last station so I never will took this one :P
Is there any possibilities to show only one direction?
I think it’s not the same option like your “ignoredStations” and “ignoredLines” config, right?

thank u and greetings

M1dn8

Hey @Beh, is there any possibility to imply the direction feature? I would be really appreciate that! Best greetings from Berlin.

derhuerst

just a small reminder for those who want to have direction filtering. in berlin, there’s no machine-readable information about directions in the data that VBB provides.

as an example, take U2:

in the west, it may end at ruhleben, theodor-heuss-platz
in the east, it may end at bülowstr, spittelmarkt, pankow

this is without more complicated construction work.

the best way to indicate a direction you want to get departures for is the next station after yours. @Beh we can try to implement this somehow, not sure wether in the API or in your magic mirror client.

Beh

Hey @Tekki
Unfortunately, I’m not really familiar with the changes, that @olexs made in his MMM-PublicTransportDB module, so I don’t really know, if your config is correct. You could open an issue on his GitHub repository with the same question again. Here it is:
https://github.com/olexs/MMM-PublicTransportDB

Beh

To @M1dn8 @gekberlin:
As @derhuerst mentions, this feature can be implemented, but it is a bit of work… We can try this. If you have any programming skills, your contribution is more than welcome :)

To @derhuerst:
Do you think, that some other possible future services that use your API will likely use this feature? If so, I think it should be done in the API. If not, I can just throw away the entries that are not used. But as you said, determining the direction could be a bit tricky. So one would need to know the next station on the line, huh?

gekberlin

@derhuerst said in MMM-PublicTransportBerlin - Public transport for Berlin and Brandenburg (departures):

the best way to indicate a direction you want to get departures for is the next station after yours. @Beh we can try to implement this somehow, not sure wether in the API or in your magic mirror client.

Yeah, that would help me actually a lot. I could also use the db api, but unfortunately the real-time data are not really accurate for the bvg-trams.
@beh Unfortunately I’m a realy beginner in the software devolopment, but I think i’m not the only one who would appreciate that future and maybe some of them can program

derhuerst

On the API level, further discussion on this feature should be done at https://github.com/derhuerst/vbb-hafas/issues/19 .

Beh

Hey guys, I have good news for you:

Commit 8c5e69f in the GitHub repo implements the one direction feature feature via the directionStationId variable. You just enter the next station on your line for the direction you want the departures to be shown.

Some words about that:

After some tests, the data delivery of this feature seems not to be as reliable as the normal version. Also, please make sure you actually have the right stationId for the direction station.
Additionally, more request results take more time for the request. So please make sure to keep your maxUnreachableDepartures and maxReachabledepartures low when using this feature.

If you encounter any issues with that, please open an issue on GitHub.

I also mentioned this in the readme. Thanks again to @derhuerst for implementing the feature in his service!

/cc @M1dn8 @gekberlin @ROMSY

Kleriker

Hi,
this is a very nice module! One thing though: Is there a way to make the text stop scrolling from right to left, if it’s a realy long station name?

Beh

@Kleriker Yes, you can set the marqueeLongDirections option to false`.

It’s described in the “Configuration” section here: https://github.com/deg0nz/MMM-PublicTransportBerlin

Kleriker

@Beh OH how did I fail to see that… Thank you!

PaulB

this is an awesome module. Thank you for that!
Unfortunately, HVV does not support the API Key anymore.

Does anyone of you guys know a different way of getting the API key?

Thanks in advance :)

Iseknutz

@rudibarani @olexs Did you solve the problem with the delay-calculation?

Beh

Attention:

Due to changes in the API, the stationId must be a string now. If you experience errors, please check the updated readme and change your configuration to use a string for the ID.

This is also true for the directionStationId is you use this feature.

nem1

Hello,

I get the following error using this module for about 2 days:

“Fehler bei Daten abrufen; {ifHafasError”:true,“message”:“Gateaway Time-out”,“statusCode”:504}
Das könnte heißen, dass VBB-Daten gerade nicht verfügbar sind.

I already updated the stationID and it was working correctly after the change. But now, I get this error.

Can anybody help?

Thanks a lot.

Beh

@nem1
This actually means what it says. VBB Data is currently not available. The API is down for some days now… The error has been reported.

You can check the status at https://status.transport.rest

AgP42

Hello,

It is my first installation of this module and I also have the same error message.
Is the VBB data still out of order or did I wrongly configure my module ?

Thank you in advance,

nem1

@agp42 said in MMM-PublicTransportBerlin - Public transport for Berlin and Brandenburg (departures):

Hello,

It is my first installation of this module and I also have the same error message.
Is the VBB data still out of order or did I wrongly configure my module ?

Thank you in advance,

The API is live again. So I think you did something wrong. Can you post the part of your config?

AgP42

@nem1 said in MMM-PublicTransportBerlin - Public transport for Berlin and Brandenburg (departures):

The API is live again. So I think you did something wrong. Can you post the part of your config?

Thank you for your answer and your help, in fact I initially copy-paste the official example of config, just to try the module before doing more configuration :

{
    module: "MMM-PublicTransportBerlin",
    position: "top_right",
    config: {
        name: "Alexanderplatz",
        stationId: "90000010000",
        hidden: false,
        ignoredStations: [900000100003,2342,1337],
        ignoredLines: ["U5", "U8", "S75" "Bus 100"],               
        excludedTransportationTypes: "bus,suburban,subway",   
        travelTimeToStation: 10,
        interval: 120000,
        departureMinutes: 10,          
        maxDepartures: 15,
        marqueeLongDirections: true,
        showColoredLineSymbols: true,  
        useColorForRealtimeInfo: true,
        showTableHeaders: true,
        showTableHeadersAsSymbols: true,
        maxUnreachableDepartures: 3,    
        maxReachableDepartures: 7,
        fadeUnreachableDepartures: true,
        fadeReachableDepartures: true,
        fadePointForReachableDepartures: 0.25,
        excludeDelayFromTimeLabel: true
    }
},

but it didn’t work at all, the MagicMirror display the error that the config file is not valid :“Please create a config file”.
So to debug that I remove all the non-required parameters, and keep only :

{
    module: "MMM-PublicTransportBerlin",
    position: "top_right",
    config: {
        name: "Alexanderplatz",
        stationId: "90000010000"
    }
},

Then the Mirror is starting again but this module display this error :

Any idea of the origin of the problem ?
Can you maybe send me a valid config to try it ?

(My Mirror was in 2.4.0 and now updated in 2.4.1, but same issue, the Module is updated at its last version)

Thanks in advance,
AgP42