Good luck - this has been a great widget so I hope you are able to get it working again soon.  I've done a little bit of yahoo piping in my time so if there's anything I could do to help, let me know.

Sorry to be a nuisance - just wondered when the new version is likely to be available?  The 'Under Construction' notice is depressing me!

Fair enough - perhaps you could indicate what level of donation would enable this do be done?  Feel free to PM me if this isn't appropriate for public consumption.

Thanks.

Alternatively, I was checking out how the boards work these days - I can see it's changed and here's an example of how it looks for my station departures

http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/en/s/ldb/ … Id=&f=

Could I write a new pipe that converted this in to the same format that the old one produced, so you wouldn't need to do anything beyond update the pipe URL?

I shall have a look at this ... I have never done any actionscript before though (I'm more of an HTML/perl/javascript developer), so we shall see!

OK here's my first effort - sorry to post the whole thing but I can't see how to post an attachment.

One thing I was unable to work out is how to load the JSON data from the remote server as I would get security exceptions due to the JSON being on a different server from the SWF. 

I know this is possible in javascript:

http://docs.jquery.com/Release:jQuery_1 … g_JSONP.29

but haven't been able to find out how to do this in ActionScript.  So in this effort the JSON is embedded in the code.

package {
  import flash.display.*;
  import flash.text.*;
  import flash.net.URLRequest;
  import flash.net.URLLoader;
  import flash.events.*;
  import com.adobe.utils.*;
  import com.adobe.serialization.json.JSON;

  public class tt2 extends Sprite{
    public function tt2 (){
      var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader() ;
      var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest() ;

      var data:String='{"error":"false","errorMsg":"Error message","errorField":"","time":"09:33","trains":[["d","09:23","London Bri
dge","09:32 <br/> 9 mins late","1","/en/s/ldbdetails/JmdCF4JhBmE03NyDEybQeQ%3D%3D"],["d","09:36","Horsham","09:40 <br/>
4 mins late","2","/en/s/ldbdetails/l08fLbW54fAfQ%235HX2Tuow%3D%3D"],["","09:41","London Bridge","On time","1","/en/s/ldbdetails/dW9R
G5Dj9PLR8zgIvLV7eA%3D%3D"],["d","09:45","Reigate","09:47 <br/> 2 mins late","2","/en/s/ldbdetails/5rhlobkS6jLajV5vuBWH1Q%3D%3D
"],["","10:06","Horsham","On time","2","/en/s/ldbdetails/WESa03DItX6zEnModsxJ6w%3D%3D"],["","10:11","London Bridge","On time","1","/
en/s/ldbdetails/jAsUzqO4Fvk5jLjq8KBAfA%3D%3D"],["","10:24","London Bridge","On time","1","/en/s/ldbdetails/AGBuiaPoit9kl2PB3%2BSkjw%
3D%3D"],["","10:36","Horsham","On time","","/en/s/ldbdetails/0q5bcfwe7juVdxLYdeyNYg%3D%3D"],["","10:41","London Bridge","On time",""
,"/en/s/ldbdetails/4X1l0e6OO11Y6lZ0ez5HAQ%3D%3D"],["","10:45","Reigate","On time","","/en/s/ldbdetails/DsrF8WugVMWbIjLVTKLDQA%3D%3D"
],["","11:06","Horsham","On time","","/en/s/ldbdetails/9i5yfUpAEoj4NXbtG39SIA%3D%3D"],["","11:11","London Bridge","On time","","/en/
s/ldbdetails/I8aUhO%2B1BRwha0yCkzmAVg%3D%3D"],["","11:23","London Bridge","On time","","/en/s/ldbdetails/PnpIezIB3Q%238LozihQ7Ktg%3D
%3D"]],"buses":[],"ferries":[],"updates":[]}';
       
      var Trains:Object=(JSON.decode(data));
      var trains:Object=Trains.trains;
      var y:Number=0;
      for (var key:Object in trains) {

        y=y+15;

        /* arrive or depart */
        var arrdep:TextField=new TextField();
        arrdep.width=50;
        arrdep.height=50;
        arrdep.x=50;
        arrdep.y=y;
        arrdep.text=trains[key][0]; /* arrive or depart */
        addChild(arrdep);

        /* time */
        var traintime:TextField=new TextField();
        traintime.width=50;
        traintime.height=50;
        traintime.x=100;
        traintime.y=y;
        traintime.text=trains[key][1];
        addChild(traintime);

        /* destination */
        var dest:TextField=new TextField();
        dest.width=50;
        dest.height=50;
        dest.x=150;
        dest.y=y;
        dest.text=trains[key][2];
        addChild(dest);

        /* expected */
    var expected:TextField=new TextField();
        expected.width=50;
        expected.height=50;
        expected.x=250;
        expected.y=y;
        expected.text=trains[key][3];
        addChild(expected);

     }
    }
  }
}

The crossdomain.xml restricts to National Rail domains only
http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/crossdomain.xml

I think that perhaps we don't need to use app engine - instead we can use a yahoo pipe which basically passes the data through, and benefits from a nice crossdomain.xml.

I changed my previous code basically with this:

      request.url='http://pipes.yahooapis.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b3dad3b8d00a0862da9ae816eff43c8e&_render=json&station=Merstham';
      loader.load(request);
      loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE,decodeJSON);

      function decodeJSON(event:Event):void {

        var data:String=loader.data;
        var Trains:Object=JSON.decode(data);
        var trains:Object=Trains.value.items[0].trains;

and I think that solves the problem.  Also 'station' is a parameter so can be changed at will.

Does this help much, gingerbeardman?

I tried to convert what I've done in to an app myself - but I've learned the hard way that the actionscript I wrote above is actionscript 3 and one can only use actionscript 2 to develop for the chumby.  I believe this will change when flash lite 4.0 comes to the chumby which should happen but there's no date for it.  I think when that happens I will give it a go.

Alternatively, if the existing app takes a format products from a yahoo pipe I could try and reproduce that?

Hi AshTemple,

It's one of the main reasons I got a chumby too so I was very sad to see it go. 

My AS2 is sadly non-existent, although I do a lot of web development in other languages.

I don't think you would need to know any web server code.  I wrote a yahoo pipe which I think gives all the necessary information.  For example here's the data for the departures from Victoria:

http://pipes.yahooapis.com/pipes/pipe.r … tation=VIC

If there's a json reader for AS2 perhaps it wouldn't be that hard to build this in to a page?  I tried above but then found out I was using AS3 which isn't supported yet.

Michael

Hi,

ive worked on this for a few hours today, its no way near finished, but im getting times and on time etc into flash, it needs a few more hours of work, but it should be basic stuff with loops and tidying up. I'll try and have a play later, but if anyone else wants to have some fun: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/621066/train.zip

Hey, im having trouble with the JSON feed and flash, for some reason using the json class its triplicating the feed... is there any way you can share your pipe? or can you export as something else like xml?

itching to get this working!

thanks
Mr AshTemple...