MMM-Bixi

MMM-Bixi is a Magic Mirror module for displaying bicycle and electric bicycle availabilities of any station in the Bixi network in Montreal. Simply add a station's id and an optional display name for each station you want to monitor. It gets data from the Bixi open data page.

Installation

Remote to your raspberry pi and navigate to your Magic Mirror modules folder

cd ~/MagicMirror/modules

Clone the MMM-Bixi repository

git clone https://github.com/nictruong/MMM-Bixi.git

Go to the MMM-Bixi module and install dependencies

cd MMM-Bixi
npm install

Add the following configs to the Magic Mirror configs file

...
{
    module: "MMM-Bixi",
    config: {
        interval: 60,
        stations: [
            { id: 334, displayName: "Jarry / Gounod" }, 
            { id: 67, displayName: "University / Milton" }
        ],
        showBikes: true,
        showEBikes: true,
        showTotal: false,
    },
    position: 'top_left'
}
...

Configuration

MMM-Bixi is configurable by simply changing the MMM-Bixi entry in the Magic Mirror configs file.

The interval controls the interval in seconds between refreshes.

Station ids can be found here. Display name is optional.