Live bus tracker (aka an exercise in scraping and API calls)

[Yami]

Love this btw. I don't have any meaningful input, this is just cool

 

[carnageX]

Welp, irony of ironies, I've decided to screw JSON and just do a string search seems that php's "json_decode" is a delicate little flower that likes to **** up whenever it wants, so ya know what I'm not even gonna use ya! Take that!

Dirty as hell but works 100% of the time, until Transperth decide to change their json layout, buuut I don't think that's too likely given how slow they are to change anything at all.

Ah well, added to intranet and it does what it's supposed to.
Next up, making a little screen to put next to the exit door

Are there no good 3rd party JSON libraries for PHP?

 

[S0ULphIRE]

Tbh I haven't looked, and probably won't cause I don't need to install anything else doing it this way laziness ftw.

I found an old RPi model B, overkill really but laziness wins the day again. Found a 5" LCD on ebay for $30 bucks so bought that, now just gotta wait till she arrives

 

[S0ULphIRE]

While I'm waiting for that screen to arrive, I decided to implement a hotkey to deploy to staff who wanted it, ended up looking like this

 

[Zekester2097]

O.O that live train map doe




btw sorry, just saw this post xD

 

[S0ULphIRE]

Guess what arrived today