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: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:54:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: stearns http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-16292 stearns Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:47:39 +0000 /blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/#comment-16292 Hi Gnimsh, Nope, the Chumby is acting as a display for a service running on a separate server - that service queries my local transit provider periodically and reformats it in a Chumby-palatable form (basically, the Chumby is told exactly how many minutes after the hour each dot should appear). (Also, we moved last year, and though I updated the service to query stops nearest our new house, that Chumby has been sitting on my dresser for at least eight months, not even plugged in because there isn't a free outlet right there. Instead, I find myself using someone else's app on my Android phone instead, because the phone is always with me, but I'm usually not near the dresser!) Hi Gnimsh,
Nope, the Chumby is acting as a display for a service running on a separate server – that service queries my local transit provider periodically and reformats it in a Chumby-palatable form (basically, the Chumby is told exactly how many minutes after the hour each dot should appear).

(Also, we moved last year, and though I updated the service to query stops nearest our new house, that Chumby has been sitting on my dresser for at least eight months, not even plugged in because there isn’t a free outlet right there. Instead, I find myself using someone else’s app on my Android phone instead, because the phone is always with me, but I’m usually not near the dresser!)

]]> By: Gnimsh http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/comment-page-1/#comment-15729 Gnimsh Mon, 27 Jun 2011 02:02:15 +0000 /blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/#comment-15729 Hi Reid, I'm wondering if you could tweak this to be able to set the stops you want from the chumby? I just got one and have been looking all over for a nextbus widget but one doesn't currently exist. I just want to choose mbta stops outside my house just like you do. Would it be possible either for you to do this, or share the app that I could edit it myself? I appreciate your time. Thanks. Hi Reid,
I’m wondering if you could tweak this to be able to set the stops you want from the chumby? I just got one and have been looking all over for a nextbus widget but one doesn’t currently exist. I just want to choose mbta stops outside my house just like you do.

Would it be possible either for you to do this, or share the app that I could edit it myself?

I appreciate your time.

Thanks.

]]> By: stearns http://selfamusementpark.com/blog/2007/10/14/my-chumby-transit-widget/comment-page-1/#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-page-1/#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-page-1/#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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