Comments on: My Chumby transit widget http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/ I have nothing interesting to say. Don't believe me? Read this: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:58:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: stearns http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/#comment-12 stearns Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:51:53 +0000 /blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/#comment-12 Hi Reid - yeah, their whole model seems to center around building a community of shared Flash-movie "widgets", but if you don't like that, you're free to do your own thing: it's a very open little Linux box (ARM-based; lots of cool gizmos built in, including a motion sensor, microphone, speakers.. and that's a touchscreen on the front!). Hi P.T. - Portland's Streetcars get monitoring by NextBus (http://www.nextbus.com), which provides live in-vehicle monitoring for many transit systems... so the predictions are pretty good! (All the Streetcar stops have LED signs with the same next-arrival information, and the NextBus website is Treo-friendly, so I never look at paper schedules.) My little OpenLaszlo app polls a service running on my home webserver that uses a couple of hard-coded bus-stop codes when it polls NextBus. I haven't attempted to make that service too general, since (a) I only care about the two stops closest to home, and (b) I don't want to hammer NextBus's servers enough that I come up on their radar. Hi Reid - yeah, their whole model seems to center around building a community of shared Flash-movie “widgets”, but if you don’t like that, you’re free to do your own thing: it’s a very open little Linux box (ARM-based; lots of cool gizmos built in, including a motion sensor, microphone, speakers.. and that’s a touchscreen on the front!).

Hi P.T. - Portland’s Streetcars get monitoring by NextBus (http://www.nextbus.com), which provides live in-vehicle monitoring for many transit systems… so the predictions are pretty good! (All the Streetcar stops have LED signs with the same next-arrival information, and the NextBus website is Treo-friendly, so I never look at paper schedules.) My little OpenLaszlo app polls a service running on my home webserver that uses a couple of hard-coded bus-stop codes when it polls NextBus. I haven’t attempted to make that service too general, since (a) I only care about the two stops closest to home, and (b) I don’t want to hammer NextBus’s servers enough that I come up on their radar.

]]> By: P T Withington http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/#comment-11 P T Withington Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:42:28 +0000 /blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/#comment-11 Hey coolio! I like the term 'predictions'. Your streetcars must be as 'predictable' as ours... Of course, now you have to soup it up to allow it to predict streetcars in other locations. Hey coolio! I like the term ‘predictions’. Your streetcars must be as ‘predictable’ as ours…

Of course, now you have to soup it up to allow it to predict streetcars in other locations.

]]> By: Reid http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/#comment-10 Reid Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:20:02 +0000 /blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/#comment-10 Ah, so Chumby is based on Flash? I was hoping for a more JavaScript-y platform. Ah, so Chumby is based on Flash? I was hoping for a more JavaScript-y platform.

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