spray Bus Time Alerter

This project polls the BusTime api for when a bus is within range of a stop and sends an SMS text. It uses Spray and Akka for the endpoints and logic. SMS are sent using TextBelt

Follow these steps to get started:

1. The following configuration settings are passed to the application by environment variables. They can also be set explicitly in the application.conf

2. BUS_TIME_API_KEY

3. BUS_STOP_ID

4. SMS_NUMBER

5. EXPRESS_BUS_LINE (this is optional if an express bus also visits the stop)

6. Change directory into your clone:

    $ cd my-project
   

7. Launch SBT:

    $ sbt
   

8. Start the application:

    > re-start
   

9. Browse to http://localhost:8080

10. Stop the application:

     > re-stop
    

To run on a raspberry pi (requires jvm installed. For reasons I did not look into I had trouble running it with Java8):

1. Create assembly jar:

    $ sbt assembly
   

2. Copy created jar file to the raspberry pi

3. Set above environment variables if not explicitly specified in application.conf

4. Start the application:

    $ java -Xss1M -Xms64M -jar spray-bus-alerter-assembly-0.1.jar
   

This project was in part inspired by Control Group's work on the MTA kiosks.