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Raspberry PI Singapore Bus Schedule Display in 16x2 LCD

Raspberry PI Singapore Bus Schedule Display in 16x2 LCD

Displays Bus Schedule for a bus stop in 16x2 LCD using Raspberry PI. This program uses Land Transport Singapore API to display the bus services available and next 3 bus arrival timings for a given bus stop in 16x2 LCD

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

• Raspberry Pi - I used Raspberry Pi 4 - but any pi should work fine
• 16x2 LCD

Installing

• Wire Raspberry Pi and 16x2 LCD - in 4 bit mode as shown above

lcd = CharLCD(cols=16, rows=2, pin_rs=37, pin_e=35, pins_data=[33, 31, 29, 23], numbering_mode=GPIO.BOARD)    

• Clone this repo
• Install the depended python3 modules in requirements.py file
• Sign in Singapore LTA API to get the API token token
• Set the token as the environment variable

export DATAMALL_API_KEY='<YOUR_API_KEY>'

• Run the program:

python3 main.py 28091

Demo Image:

Built With

• Raspberry Pi
• RPLCD - The python Raspberry PI character LCD library
• Singapore LTA - Datamall API for bus services in Singapore

Authors

• Sachin Dangol