MMM-TFL-Status

Magic Mirror Module for Trasport For London Status

This is a module for the MagicMirror.

This module shows the status of the Transport for London (TFL) lines including:

• Tube
• Elizabeth Line
• DLR
• Overground
• Tram
• Bus
• River Coach

Installation

Navigate into your MagicMirror's modules folder and execute git clone https://github.com/emanuele-albini/MMM-TFL-Status. A new folder MMM-TFL-Status will appear, navigate into it.

The package does not require any additional dependency and thus does not contains any package.json.

If you encounter any issuses with the package, please submit an issue here on GitHub.

Configuration

The entry in config.js can include the following options. All arguments are optional.

Option	Description
interval	How often the TFL status is updated. Type: integer Default value: 600000 // 10 minutes
modes	Modes for which to gather the status from TFL API. Check https://api.tfl.gov.uk/line/meta/modes for a list of valid modes. Type: array of string Default value: ['tube', 'elizabeth-line', 'dlr', 'overground']
ignore_good	This determines if the module display hides lines that have good service (true) or shows all of the lines (false). If this is used and all lines have good service then only a single line indicates this. Type: boolean Default value: false
lines	Array of lines to visualise (among those in the selected modes). Check https://api.tfl.gov.uk/line/mode/ for a list of all the lines in a certain mode. Type: array of string (lines id, or name, in lower-case) Default value: null (all)
lines_always_show	Array of lines to always show (even if hide_good = true). Type: array of string (lines id, or name, in lower-case) Default value: null (none)
lines_order	Order in which to visualise the lines. The lines listed here will be visualised first (in the order specified). Type: array of string Default value: null (random order)
blacklistLines	If true, lines will act as a balcklist (all the lines but those specified will be visualised). Type: boolean Default value: false
names	A line ID-name mapping to override the default names that TFL gives to lines. This is useful for lines that have inexplicably long names in TFL API (e.g., London Overground or Elizabeth line) Type: object/dictionary line ids as keys and line names as values Default value: { 'london-overground': 'Overground', 'elizabeth': 'Elizabeth' }

Here is an example of an entry in config.js

{
    module:     'MMM-TFL-Status',
    position:   'top_left',
    config:		{
        ignore_good: true,
        lines_always_show: ['elizabeth'],
        interval: 15 * 60 * 1000, // 15 minutes
    }
},

TFL API

For more informations on the TFL API check out their website.

Note that this plugin does not require any API key because TFL grants 50 requests/minute under anonymous access at the time of writing.

Credits

This module is based and considerably extends Nigel Daniels's module MMM-Tube-Status.

This module extends it by allowing the user to:

• show also additional TFL lines (and not only Tube lines);
• use a blacklist of lines instead of a whitelist.
• sort the lines in a custom order;
• select some lines to always show even if the hide_good option is set.
• Removing the dependency from the request package.