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metropi

Overview

This project is used to display the nearest train at a specific metro stop in Washington DC. The project runs on a Raspberry Pi and the display used is the e-ink bonnet from Adafruit.

The display shows the following information:

  • Destination of the metro - example being "Shady Grove"
  • The current time - example being "12:45 PM"
  • Which line the train is running on - example being "RD"
  • The arrival time of the nearest train - example being "5min"

Installation

  • Create API access token on the WMATA developer site
  • Clone the repository on your Raspberry Pi with the following git clone https://github.com/ryanwa18/metropi.git
  • Change into the working directory of the cloned repository cd metropi
  • Create a virtual environment to work in python3 -m venv .
  • Activate the virtual environment source bin/activate
  • Install the required dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Create a file named .env in your directory with the following content METRO_API_KEY = 'YOUR_METRO_API_KEY'
  • Run the main program python3 main.py

Configuration

  • To change the station being displayed modify line 22 in main.py with the station code you want to use.
  • Station codes can be found in the following JSON from the WMATA API.

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