This tiny Departures Board measures just 41mm x 14.5mm x 12.5mm (without stand) and uses a 0.91″ OLED panel to display accurate, real time data from National Rail and Bustimes.org to operate as a Rail or Bus departures board. Powered via USB (you’ll need a Type-C cable) – any USB charger can be used as a power supply.
Features
- Smooth animation matching the real departures boards
- Displays up to the next 9 departures with scheduled time, destination, calling stations and expected departure time
- Optionally only show services calling at a selected railway station
- Optionally only show services departing from selected platform numbers
- Displays Network Rail service messages
- Train information (operator, class, number of coaches etc.)
- In Bus mode, displays up to the next 9 departures with service number, destination and scheduled/expected time
- Fully-featured browser based configuration screens – choose any station on the UK rail network / UK Bus Stops
- All processing is done onboard. Our boards talk directly to the data providers with no reliance on middleware servers
- Automatic firmware updates
- Displays the weather at the selected location (optional)
What you’ll need
- A Rail Delivery Group API token or a National Rail Darwin Lite API token, (these are all free of charge). The board will only operate in Bus mode without a token.
Click here for a full step-by-step guide to obtaining all of the necessary API tokens.
Setting up the Departures Board
When you receive and power up your board it will broadcast its own temporary Wi-Fi network that you connect to setup the permanent connection to your home Wi-Fi. You can watch a video walk-though of the setup process here.
Download a copy of the setup guide here.
