DPS Transit App

Overview

The Transit app puts the railway’s departure boards on every player’s phone. Open it and you see one card per station, sorted by how far away it is, each showing the next train, its status and how long until it arrives.

It does no scheduling of its own. It simply shows what dps-trains reports, so the times on the phone match what actually turns up on the platform.

Features

• One card per station, sorted by distance from the player and labelled in metres or kilometres.
• Each card shows the next service: its name, a status and an arrival time.
• Stations are tagged REGIONAL for the mainline or LIGHT RAIL for the other lines.
• Services have their own icons: Metro, Axsellya Express, Brown Streak and Freight.
• Status reads “boarding”, “delayed”, “next stop” or “N stops away”.
• Arrival time reads “Due” under 45 seconds, otherwise minutes; stations with nothing coming read “No service”.
• Refreshes every 5 seconds while open.
• Installed on every phone by default, and re-added automatically if lb-phone restarts.
• Keeps working, showing “No service”, if dps-trains is stopped.

How it works

1. When lb-phone starts, the resource registers a custom app called Transit.
2. A player opens it and the app asks the server for the arrival board.
3. The server reads getArrivalBoard() from dps-trains, and the client sorts the stations by distance before showing them.

Requirements

• lb-phone with custom app support
• ox_lib
• dps-trains (for its getArrivalBoard() export)

Installation

1. Put the folder in your resources directory and keep the name dps-transitapp. The app’s page calls back to the resource by that exact name.
2. In server.cfg, ensure it after lb-phone and dps-trains.
3. Restart the server. No other setup is needed.

dps-trains is deliberately not a hard dependency: if it were, restarting the railway would remove the app from every phone.

Configuration

There is no config file. The app id (dps_transit), name (Transit), default install and icon are set in client.lua. The 5-second refresh and the 45-second “Due” threshold are in ui/index.html.

Credits

Written by DaemonAlex for Del Perro Sands.