busink

Realtime bus arrivals on a raspberry pi + an e-ink screen!

Uses rpi_epd2in7 and curlbus

Installation instructions

Follow the instructions to install rpi_epd2in7,

Edit the configuration file to select your preferred stop and route, edit the .service file to point to your installation location, and then run

sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
# the following might be needed for Pillow to work:
sudo apt-get install libtiff5 libopenjp2-7

# Install the service
sudo cp busink.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable busink.service
sudo systemctl start busink.service

Development

main.py contains a mock EPD class so you can develop on your desktop without having to move the code to the Pi