Display bus arrival times on a Raspberry Pi with an e-ink screen.
The display shows up to three upcoming buses for a stop. Touching the display cycles through different stops.
This is inteded for use with:
The e-Paper HAT is available with a case from The Pi Hut.
Nimbus gets it bus time data by scraping one of three websites:
| Website | Option | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Nextbuses | nextbuses |
|
| bustimes.org | bustimes |
|
| Oxontime | oxontime |
Oxfordshire only |
Select the site you wish you use during set-up.
Firstly get the IDs of the bus stops you want to display from here. The IDs will be a list of letters and numbers like 340000006R1.
Image the SD Card for the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with Rasperry Pi OS Lite (64-bit) using the Raspberry Pi Imager. Use the settings in the imager to set hostname, enable SSH and specify the wi-fi password.
One the Pi has booted, login via SSH. Install gitand then clone this repository:
sudo apt-get install -y git
git clone https://github.com/davweb/nimbus.git
Run the set up script.
cd nimbus
./setup.sh
Enter the required details when prompted. The script will configure the Raspberry Pi, install the required dependencies, create a configuration file and schedule Nimbus to run using cron.
Nimbus is configured either through a YAML configuration file or command line options.
Look at sample-config.yml for the configuration file format or run the following command to see the command line options:
python -m nimbus --help