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.