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Boards

A departure board for any screen

Any screen with a web browser becomes a TransportHub board: no special equipment, no account and no software to install. Point it at an address once and it looks after itself, day and night.

Get a board's address
A stop board for Grand Parade on a Monday morning: the next buses with minutes counting down, each leaving in turn, and a QR code for the stop.

Three boards

Each has its own address. All are dark by default, large enough to read across a room, and show a QR code so people can take the same information with them.

The airport board: Welcome to St Helena, the next flights and their status, getting into town, the roads and weather, and help numbers.

The airport

Welcome to St Helena: the next flights and their status, the ways into town (shared airport cars, taxis and hire, the bus), the roads and the weather, and who to call.

For: the arrivals hall and the check-in area

https://app.transporthub.sh/#board-airportOpen

A stop board for Grand Parade: the next buses from the stop with their routes, destinations, times and minutes to go, and a QR code for the stop.

A bus stop

The next buses from that stop, with minutes to go, any road closure near it and its effect on each bus, the weather, and a code to open the stop on a phone.

For: Grand Parade, the Hospital, a shelter, a shop window by a stop

https://app.transporthub.sh/#board-stop-grand-paradeOpen

The island board: buses, roads, airport, sea and weather each marked green, amber or red, and the next buses across the island.

The island today

Buses, roads, the airport, the sea and the weather, each green, amber or red, and the next buses across the island.

For: the Tourist Office, the Wharf, hotels and guest houses

https://app.transporthub.sh/#boardOpen

Get a board's address

Choose the board, and for a stop, which one. Open the address on the screen, or scan the code with a phone to try it first.

Address

https://app.transporthub.sh/#board-stop-grand-parade

Open this board

Every stop's page in the app has Show as a board too.

Setting up a screen

  1. A screen with a browser. A smart TV's own browser, a streaming stick with a browser, a small computer or a Raspberry Pi behind the screen. Landscape, 32 inches or more for reading from a few metres.
  2. A connection. Wi-Fi or a cable. The board needs very little data, and keeps working through a dropped connection.
  3. Open the board's address and make the browser full screen (F11 on a computer). For a screen that starts by itself, set its browser to open the address full screen when it starts (often called kiosk mode).
  4. Stop the screen sleeping in its own settings. The board also asks the screen to stay awake, where the browser allows.
  5. Agree it with whoever owns the place. Bus stops are St Helena Government's, and the airport is the airport operator's: ask before putting a screen up.

What a board does by itself

  • Redraws every half minute, and fetches SHG's notices, the forecast and flight status every five minutes
  • Says so plainly when the connection is down, and keeps showing the last news it had and the timetable
  • Refreshes itself in the small hours, so it always has the latest TransportHub
  • Hides the pointer, and moves its picture a few pixels now and then so nothing burns into the screen
  • Shows only the departures that fit, whatever the screen's size
  • To leave a board, press Escape, or move the mouse and choose Leave display

Private by design

A board collects nothing. It has no camera or microphone access, never asks anyone to sign in, and is not counted as a visitor. Its QR codes open TransportHub, and nothing else.