Sign Mode
OneBusAway provides a mode optimized for showing real-time arrival information on large public screens, allowing quick and cheap information displays.
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To use sign-mode, use the standard web interface to browse to your favorite stop. The URL for the page should have form like:
http://your.host-name.com/where/standard/stop.action?id=X_Y
To enable sign mode, simply replace the standard part of the URL with sign:
http://your.host-name.com/where/sign/stop.action?id=X_Y
For example:
http://tampa.onebusaway.org/where/sign/stop.action?id=Hillsborough%20Area%20Regional%20Transit_6497
There are a number of parameters you can add to the URL to tweak the behavior of the sign:
- title=... - By default, the sign uses the current stop name as a title. This option allows you to override the title.
- showTitle=false - Alternatively, you can hide the title completely.
- route=X_Y - Specify a route id to indicate that only this route should be show. Can be repeated.
- minutesBefore=N - Excludes vehicles that departed more than N minutes ago.
- minutesAfter=N - Exclude vehicles arriving more than N minutes from now.
- refresh=N - Automatically refresh the page every N seconds.
If your TV doesn't have a built-in browser, you might want to check out cheap adapters such as Google Chromecast - for $35, it plugs into your TV's HDMI port and you can "cast" the browser sign page to the screen from a regular Android device (or computer).
The URL format for v2 changed to:
https://realtimedev.sdmts.com/onebusaway-enterprise-acta-webapp/sign/sign?stopIds=MTS_10772,MTS_11903
Note that multiple stops can be shown:
