[Announce][N9] StandByMee - EFA (Public Transport Monitor)
 

And a second one ... for those who dont know: With this app i will apply for the Summer '12 Device Program / Community Awards and then ... i will get a developer device ... and then ... i will take over the world! Muwhahaha :D I was wrong: I will participate for the Summer '12 Device Program / New Apps for Nokia Store and then ... i will get a developer device ... and then ... i will take over the world! Muwhahaha :D

About StandByMee-EFA
StandByMee-EFA monitors your favorite public station from efa.vrr.de on the standby screen of your beloved Nokia N9. It works also for other regions than VRR, afaik for the complete D-A-CH region.

StandByMee-EFA makes heavy use of python-mechanize (for web browsing) and BeautifulSoup (for *ml parsing), I might change this in a future release.

Screenshots
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73783334/St...creenshot1.png
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73783334/St...creenshot2.png

Installation

• You will need to activate developer mode and enable operator logo as described here

• Install dependent python packages - be root my friend
  
  Code:

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  apt-get install python-imaging python-gconf python-beautifulsoup

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• Install python-mechanize packages - again as root - by downloading the corresponding egg file to the below subdirectory
  
  Code:

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  cd /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/73783334/Sta....2.5-py2.6.egg

  ---

  Alternatively, you can download the python-mechanize*tar from
  here and install it manually via 'python setup.py install'

• Download and install the attached standbymee-efa package via
  
  Code:

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  dpkg -i standbymee-efa_0.2.0_armel.deb

  ---

Updating

• The above will install two icons named SBM-Home resp. SBM-Work which will update your standby screen. While updating the icon description is shown grayed out.
  https://dl.dropbox.com/u/73783334/St...creenshot3.png

• Modify the corresponding desktop files for your needs and/or add more
  Code:

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  cat /usr/share/applications/sbm-efa-home.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
...
Name=SBM-Home
Exec=/usr/bin/invoker --single-instance --type=e /usr/bin/standbymee-efa.sh "E" "Porscheplatz"
...

  ---

• You can also use crontab or ProfileMatic for auto update purposes.

Future plans:
Complete rewrite to get rid of Mechanize and BeautifulSoup using an undocumented API.

Changelog

• StandByMee-EFA 0.2.0: Initial release.

Remark / Warning
I am a beginner concerning programming. With other words: You should now what you are doing by activating developer mode, modifying files, installing packages ... Be warned my friend :D

Thanks goes to:
[1] Paul Flo Williams for his Dotrice font published at Open Font Library http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/dotrice
[2] Paul Sherman for his collection of public domain images: http://www.wpclipart.com/signs_symbo..._sign.png.html
[3] Javispedro for his Harmattan icon generator: http://apps.javispedro.com/nit/hicg/
[4] Derf for his perl version of the EFA status monitor and inspiration: https://github.com/derf/Travel-Status-DE-VRR

Re: [Pre-Announce][N9] StandByMee - EFA (Public Transport Monitor)
 

That looks pretty slick!

Re: [Pre-Announce][N9] StandByMee - EFA (Public Transport Monitor)
 

Thank you. I guess you mainly liked the used font. I had to switch to an 'open font', see above, but for personal use you can also use the other one http://www.fonts2u.com/times-square.font

In the meantime i updated the first post to an announcement.

Re: [Announce][N9] StandByMee - EFA (Public Transport Monitor)
 

is that app opensource ? easy to rebuild ? ask me for that

BTW:

http://rzr.online.fr/q/harmattan# Just imported/rebuilt #python-mechanize on #harmattan Shared repo , want more ? just ask in the forum #tmo

Re: [Announce][N9] StandByMee - EFA (Public Transport Monitor)
 

Yes, the app is GPL'ed but its unfinished yet

• Postinst and prerm scripts to handle a system file for operator logo are missing. Otherwise the users have to handle this manually.

• The solution to use desktop files to input city and station is somehow an intermediate solution. I have to rethink that.

• The dependencies on Python mechanize and beautifulsoup should be also dropped for a future update but we need them now.

As i am a beginner concerning development this may take some time.

Re: [Announce][N9] StandByMee - EFA (Public Transport Monitor)
 

The chess app on the store totally didn't work when I just tried it. I will revisit it.

Re: [Announce][N9] StandByMee - EFA (Public Transport Monitor)
 

Thank you for your feedback. Please switch to the thread StandByMee-Chess.

I dropped some questions there.

Re: [Announce][N9] StandByMee - EFA (Public Transport Monitor)
 

wanna be the 500th build app on shared repo ? if yes opensource it :-)

wanna host it there? or on gh ?

http://gitorious.org/+harmattan