Show HN: Status of my favorite bike share stations(blog.alexboden.ca)
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Show HN: Status of my favorite bike share stations
https://blog.alexboden.ca/toronto-bike-share-status/
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A note on [2], the HA integration has been updated with a separate library so new fields might be coming in the future!
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/151009
https://github.com/home-assistant/core/pull/151009
Dude, this is fantastic. Thank you. This is my biggest annoyance because I don't have reception in the elevator and I always only remember to check the bikes when I'm there.
For the SF Bay Area, the relevant endpoints are:
https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_information.js...
and
https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_status.json
With this I can build myself a little display that does the same. It does seem to match with the app, but in a tragic twist of fate it appears that the station closest to me has been delisted on the app. Oh fate! What the right hand giveth, the left hand takes!
EDIT: Funny that these days no one puts their RSS feed link somewhere visible. Fortunately, most clients do find it on the page quite easily. I wonder how they do. It's not in the HTML source.
For the SF Bay Area, the relevant endpoints are:
https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_information.js...
and
https://gbfs.lyft.com/gbfs/2.3/bay/en/station_status.json
With this I can build myself a little display that does the same. It does seem to match with the app, but in a tragic twist of fate it appears that the station closest to me has been delisted on the app. Oh fate! What the right hand giveth, the left hand takes!
EDIT: Funny that these days no one puts their RSS feed link somewhere visible. Fortunately, most clients do find it on the page quite easily. I wonder how they do. It's not in the HTML source.
Here's a list, but it won't work in the elevator: https://tools.encona.com/lyftbike
Haha, thank you. The app works quite well to see. I just want it to be available before I remember to ask, which I think I can create with an always on display.
That's pretty slick! But isn't the Lyft app just a special-purpose browser for GBFS data files?
No idea. I don't use these bikes. But I couldn't resist when GP shared the API endpoints.
Haha, I wrote almost exact same app, just in Python (flask)
Also there’s an aging HomeAssistant add-on [2] that lets you visualize stations and stats. But since HA now insists the addon is separate from an API and there’s no separate API (really, it’s trivial) things like electric bike or trailer counts are not exposed.
[1] https://citybik.es [2] https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/citybikes/