Northern Ireland Railways departure board recreated in Python for a Raspberry Pi LCD Screen

Uses the Worldline Tiger API to fetch the data. Uses a NodeJS API running pupeteer to fetch the credentials and return back to the python script which calls the Tiger API.

Features

• Randomly rotate between every station every 15 minutes
• Support for a button to swap to another station chosen at random
• Displays a message if there are no future trains at current station
• Platform data updates every minute
• Swaps displayed platform every minute

Deployment

To deploy this project run

  cd api
  docker build -t browserpuppeteer-app
  docker run -d -p 3042:3042 browserpuppeteer-app
  cd ..
  python3 -m venv myenv
  source myenv/bin/activate
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  python __main__.py

  # OR RUN startup.sh to start the python script

Rename .env.example to .env and insert URL to API. For example, http://127.0.0.1:3042/api/location

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