Next London Bus LCD

Use the TfL API to get details of the next buses arriving at your London location, and display it on your AndyPi HD44780 LCD. Based on work here: https://github.com/ismailuddin/raspberrypi/blob/master/tfl-bus-ticker/TfLAPI.py

Hardware

Raspberry Pi (tested on v1 B+) AndyPi LCD or compatible HD44780 LCD - direct conneciton NOT i2c (See AndyPi_LCD.py for which lcd pins connect with which RPi pins)

Installation (test on Raspberry Pi 1 B+)

Grab the repo and install

git clone https://github.com/andy-pi/next-london-bus-lcd.git
cd next-london-bus-lcd
sudo pip install virtualenv
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install RPi.GPIO

Test the LCD module works:

source env/bin/activate
python AndyPiLCD.py

Run the program

python next-bus.py