Startboard

Startboard is an html page to show your local weather and train times. At the moment, it is only integrated with OpenWeatherMap and WMATA (Washington, DC).

Setup

• Copy the config.example.js file to config.js

• Enter your api credentials and location information into the config.js file:

  • Weather

    • Sign up for an OpenWeatherMap API account.
    • Find your zip code and location, e.g. 20011,us

  • Transit

    • Sign up for a WMATA Developer account.
    • Find your nearest train station ids. Once you are logged in, you can use the JSON Station List endpoint (use the Try It button).
    • Find your nearest bus stops. You'll have to search for these on buseta.wmata.com.
    • Note: In our config file, WMATA train station codes may be a comma-separated string ("E01,E02") but bus stops must me an array ([1003081, 1003082, 1003083]). This is due to WMATA API limitations (and my laziness).
    • If there is more than one train station, we always show the station name.
    • If there is more than one bus stop, you must set showstops: true in your config to show the stop name.

• If you want, change the time settings to use military time, etc.

Once you have the app configured, you can set the Index.html file as your browser's homepage. In Chrome, you can also use the Replace New Tab Page plugin to show this file on all new tabs.

Background

After looking at projects like MagicMirror² and Tim Montague's Dashboard, I wanted a way to show local information on my TV. Since I already have a computer hooked up to it as a media center, I just needed to create an html page I could load into a browser.

I didn't want to have to use a server to run this, so everything must run client-side. This means avoiding most messy OAuth, but also prevents me from being able to load local JSON files due to CORS. Thus, all of our config must be in Javascript files.

Credits

I've used and included the following packages in creating this:

• Bootstrap is released under the MIT license and is copyright 2016 Twitter.
• Moment.js is released under the MIT license.
• Weather Icons are licensed under SIL OFL 1.1, Code licensed under MIT License, Documentation licensed under CC BY 3.0
• JQuery is released under the Apache 2.0 license.
• Modernizr is released under the MIT license.

License

Startboard is released under the MIT license.