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otsaloma

2017-02-15 23:03

Pan Transit

http://otsaloma.io/pub/pan-transit.png

Pan Transit is an application for Sailfish OS to view departures from public transport stops. It is designed to support multiple different providers (i.e. cities/regions). Currently supported are Helsinki Region Transport (HSL), Finnish Transport Agency, Transport for London and ASEAG in Aachen, Germany.

The dynamic plugin architecture should make it fairly easy for anyone with basic Python programming skills to add support for a new region. Providers only need to make API calls and transform that data to a format that Pan Transit understands and can display in its standard UI. Documentation is available at GitHub.

Please note that I do not plan to write providers for different regions myself, but will review and accept contributions from the community. Also, moderate suggestions to generalise the UI will be considered, but for very particular use cases, you might still be better of writing your own stand-alone app.

Download at OpenRepos or the Jolla store.

Source code and issue tracker at GitHub. Translations at Transifex.

Donations appreciated: paypal.me/otsaloma

http://otsaloma.io/pub/pan-transit-1.png

http://otsaloma.io/pub/pan-transit-2.png

http://otsaloma.io/pub/pan-transit-3.png

http://otsaloma.io/pub/pan-transit-4.png

bomo	2017-09-24 16:54

Re: Pan Transit

Dear otsaloma,

I am currently working on a provider for pan transit but have some issues with setting it up. As you wrote in the README on github, I debugged the code using on my PC using the python scripts (where it gives correct results, IMHO). However, after copying the files to "/home/nemo/.local/share/harbour-pan-transit/providers" and selecting the new provider in the settings the search is not given results.

Is there a way to debug this from within the app or making it more verbose? What steps would you recommend?

Thanks!

Edit: I now found out that I need to start pan transit via "/usr/bin/sailfish-qml harbour-pan-transit" which gives me the python output.
Now, I could fix one bug such that I can now search for stops, but whenever I want to see the departures of that stop none are listed (I made my python script a little bit verbose and can see that data exists). Is there a way to make pan transit more verbose to see whats going on there?

Edit2: I created a fork (sorry for the horrible code and the fact that it currently needs python3-requests). I would be very glad if you could have a look at it.

otsaloma

2017-09-24 19:08

Re: Pan Transit

Quote:

Originally Posted by bomo (Post 1535030)

Edit2: I created a fork (sorry for the horrible code and the fact that it currently needs python3-requests). I would be very glad if you could have a look at it.

I'll take a look.

Requests is not cool indeed, but for testing, what's the easiest way for me to get requests on the device?

bomo	2017-09-24 19:10

Re: Pan Transit

Sorry that I forgot so important information, please search e.g. for "Uniklinik" or "Bushof".

otsaloma

2017-09-24 22:48

Re: Pan Transit

Divide the times by 1000. The ones returned by the API seem to be milliseconds, we need seconds. I don't really know what exactly happens when you feed the formatting and filtering functions milliseconds, but correcting that seemed to fix it, I saw departures.

bomo	2017-09-25 06:31

Re: Pan Transit

Quote:

Originally Posted by otsaloma (Post 1535066)

Thanks!! Is there anything in the code (apart from requests) that I need to change before it can be included on your builds?

For find_nearby I don't have an implementation because I don't know how to get it from the API. Would it be possible to remove this option depending on the selected provider ?

bomo	2017-09-25 18:51

Re: Pan Transit

I am currently trying to get rid of request but I'm (again) struggling with pan.http.post et. al.

The current requests code looks like (in find_departures):

Quote:

request = requests.get(baseurl.format(url_i), params = parameter)
print(request.text)

and gives (for provider.find_departures([100636]) ):

Quote:

[4,"2.0",1506365354592]
[3,"1@2017-09-20.14:18:29"]
[1,"Hainbuchenstraße","100636","",0,50.77811,6.0626 ,20,"33","33",1,"Vaals Busstation","Vaals Busstation","340","25000319020001",1506366480000]
[1,"Hainbuchenstraße","100636","",0,50.77811,6.0626 ,15,"33","33",1,"Aachen Fuchserde","Aachen Fuchserde","519","25000080013001",1506367166000]
[1,"Hainbuchenstraße","100636","",0,50.77811,6.0626 ,20,"33","33",1,"Vaals Busstation","Vaals Busstation","382","25000230013001",1506368220000]
[1,"Hainbuchenstraße","100636","",0,50.77811,6.0626 ,15,"33","33",1,"Aachen Fuchserde","Aachen Fuchserde","340","25000319021001",1506368760000]
[1,"Hainbuchenstraße","100636","",0,50.77811,6.0626 ,20,"33","33",1,"Vaals Busstation","Vaals Busstation","293","25000317023001",1506370020000]
[1,"Hainbuchenstraße","100636","",0,50.77811,6.0626 ,15,"33","33",1,"Aachen Fuchserde","Aachen Fuchserde","0","25000230014001",1506370560000]
[1,"Hainbuchenstraße","100636","",0,50.77811,6.0626 ,20,"33","33",1,"Vaals Busstation","Vaals Busstation","0","25000316023001",1506371820000]
[1,"Hainbuchenstraße","100636","",0,50.77811,6.0626 ,15,"33","33",1,"Aachen Fuchserde","Aachen Fuchserde","0","25000317024001",1506372360000]

The pan.http part looks like (in find_departures)

Quote:

parameter = {'ReturnList': returnlist, 'StopID': ','.join(map(str, stops)) }
body = urllib.parse.urlencode(parameter)
request = pan.http.post_json(baseurl.format(url_i), body)
print(request)

and gives (for provider.find_departures([100636]) ):

Quote:

POST http://ivu.aseag.de/interfaces/ura/instant_V2
Establishing connection to ivu.aseag.de
[4, '2.0', 1506365172212]

To me it looks like I only get the first row if I use pan.http.post or pan.http.post_json or am I doing something wrong?

otsaloma

2017-09-25 19:52

Re: Pan Transit

Quote:

Originally Posted by bomo (Post 1535072)

Is there anything in the code (apart from requests) that I need to change before it can be included on your builds?

Please adhere to PEP8, the Python style guide and the existing code base style. Four spaces for indentation, max. 79 characters per line, double quotes for strings. After that you can file a pull request on GitHub, once I see the final code, there might some details to iron out before merging, but it's better to discuss that on GitHub, where I can comment on parts of the code.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bomo (Post 1535072)

For find_nearby I don't have an implementation because I don't know how to get it from the API. Would it be possible to remove this option depending on the selected provider ?

That's all right, just have find_nearby_stops return a blank list. I'm unlikely to conditionally remove it from the UI, because I think almost all providers do support a nearby search.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bomo (Post 1535134)

I am currently trying to get rid of request but I'm (again) struggling with pan.http.post

Why are you using post? Use get!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/...b/HTTP/Methods

What you likely want is

Code:

# For API endpoints that return JSON:

result = pan.http.get_json(url)



# For API endpoints that return text:

result = pan.http.get(url, encoding="utf_8")

Please take a look at the TfL provider code for an example. The essential parts of the code are very brief and should be understandable. It also shows how to constuct URLs (format_url) and how to quote search strings (urllib.parse.quote).

https://github.com/otsaloma/pan-tran...oviders/tfl.py

bomo	2017-10-06 14:15

Re: Pan Transit

Are you planning to support routing / journey planning also within pan transit?

otsaloma

2017-10-06 18:29

Re: Pan Transit

Quote:

Originally Posted by bomo (Post 1535981)

Are you planning to support routing / journey planning also within pan transit?

While it would be nice to have routing in the same app, I don't want to duplicate code -- we already have routing in Poor Maps with a similar Python plugin interface. If want to see how it works, take a look at the Digitransit router, which is a Finnish (esp. Helsinki) public transport router.

https://github.com/otsaloma/poor-map...master/routers

bomo	2017-10-06 18:58

Re: Pan Transit

Quote:

Originally Posted by otsaloma (Post 1535998)

Thanks for the info.
Just for me to understand it completely: Would you then propose to use/add a search provider that knows e.g. the bus/train stations and then a corresponding routing provider (probably coming from the same backend) for the routing / journey planning?

otsaloma

2017-10-06 20:49

Re: Pan Transit

Quote:

Originally Posted by bomo (Post 1536000)

Just for me to understand it completely: Would you then propose to use/add a search provider that knows e.g. the bus/train stations and then a corresponding routing provider (probably coming from the same backend) for the routing / journey planning?

For the Digitransit router in Poor Maps, I have also added the corresponding geocoder that knows the names of all stops.

https://github.com/otsaloma/poor-map...digitransit.py

But note that usually you don't need to know the stop names. Routers usually work with coordinates and if you know the address or some other place name, any geocoder will convert that to coordinates. And if stops exist in OpenStreetMap data, then OpenStreetMap-based geocoders do find them too.

bomo	2017-10-07 05:06

Re: Pan Transit

Quote:

Originally Posted by otsaloma (Post 1536008)

Right, thanks again.

Just out of curiosity, do you plan to merge pan transit and poor maps? That way we could also benefit from poor maps visualization of the bus stop points on the map, right?

otsaloma

2017-10-07 14:20

Re: Pan Transit

Quote:

Originally Posted by bomo (Post 1536012)

Just out of curiosity, do you plan to merge pan transit and poor maps? That way we could also benefit from poor maps visualization of the bus stop points on the map, right?

A map view for Pan Transit is planned -- to show stops, routes and vehicles. There's no synergy there with Poor Maps, so no merge.

iceskateclog

2017-11-08 21:24

Re: Pan Transit

Thanks for nice and useful application. 2x thanks for providers API.

I have a request - can filtered line configuration be saved into favorites?

Use case - convenience to quickly check multiple buses/trolleys/trams on a busy stop that match my destination. I could then bookmark same stop multiple times with different filters.

Poor mans presets for best way to get from A to Z.

otsaloma

2017-11-08 23:04

Re: Pan Transit

Quote:

Originally Posted by iceskateclog (Post 1538320)

I have a request - can filtered line configuration be saved into favorites?

Yes, that's how it already works. Filters are not saved for stops, but are saved for favorites. Just add a favorite and after that filter, it should be saved.

iceskateclog

2017-11-09 06:00

Re: Pan Transit

Quote:

Originally Posted by otsaloma (Post 1538324)

Yes, that's how it already works. Filters are not saved for stops, but are saved for favorites. Just add a favorite and after that filter, it should be saved.

Got it, it works this way!
Filtered lines in stop and added to favorites, expected to see the same filter. Should have tried to apply filter again.

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