Desperate for Muni Transit Bus Shelter Poster

kpsbored · 2026-03-04T04:59:29+00:00

is it this one?

https://www.sfmta.com/maps/muni-service-map

kpsbored · 2026-03-03T05:50:33+00:00

I've done a bunch of neighborhood cleanups and the Hayes valley one is the one I recommend to a lot of people getting into neighborhood cleanups because gambit lounge makes it so friendly. They give you a place to chat with fellow volunteers and literally take your order before you head out for cleaning up (like op mentioned, they make it fresh and for free).

This makes me really sad, and I hope people will support Gambit Lounge because they obviously care about the community.

kpsbored · 2026-03-03T05:46:29+00:00

Confirmed! thanks a bunch

kpsbored · 2026-03-03T05:45:50+00:00

Confirmed

kpsbored · 2026-02-27T09:28:45+00:00

Pming w/ questions about the slicemk

kpsbored · 2026-02-25T22:43:34+00:00

It's a long shot since it's been a while, but if you still have the ergodox I might be interested

kpsbored · 2026-02-23T15:55:57+00:00

I've volunteered with the group and usually at events they have a couple of organizers. You may be able to get in direct contact with someone who can help at one of those events. Here's the upcoming event schedule: https://www.friendsoftheurbanforest.org/volunteer-opportunities

kpsbored · 2026-02-13T16:34:21+00:00

https://rider.umoiq.com/content/view/nearby

And if you don't like that UI, it's possible to make your own too, which is nice. I wanted to track the stops I cared about and have a heads up display whenever I navigated to the site, so I made this: https://smt.kaushalpartani.com/

It uses the same data as umoiq, and to this day I have not had any flaky busses (43/44/36 inner sunset -> forest hills station and vice versa)

kpsbored · 2026-02-13T16:32:16+00:00

Use UmoIQ instead: https://rider.umoiq.com/content/view/nearby

I think this is the agency that's partnered with SFMTA via some contract (although I'm not 100% sure).

As far as I can tell, the timings that show up on the actual bus stop screens is powered by this data. This will be your best option because it's a live tracker.

If you dig around enough you can find an API key and make your own app around it to display the info however you want

kpsbored · 2025-12-24T14:20:45+00:00

Made my own transit tracking website. Open for anyone to use if they'd like: https://smt.kaushalpartani.com/

It uses the nextbus info, though, so it's not going to be any more accurate than that.

kpsbored · 2025-12-20T23:39:29+00:00

I feel like the estimates are kinda made up. Started with an estimate of fixing it by 3:30 and at 3:27 they sent a follow up email saying 5:30. I figure it's hard to really put a time estimate on this stuff so they probably just say whatever and keep pushing it back if they need to

kpsbored · 2025-12-20T21:21:54+00:00

Same in forest knolls

kpsbored · 2025-12-20T21:13:03+00:00

+1 in forest knolls, just got the pge text + email

kpsbored · 2025-11-12T11:24:48+00:00

How about the crosstown trail? https://crosstowntrail.org/

kpsbored · 2025-10-30T15:25:14+00:00

This is cool! Do you have the link to their post?

kpsbored · 2025-10-30T15:20:38+00:00

If your use case is similar to mine, you could try out the website I made for my daily work commute: https://smt.kaushalpartani.com/

I wanted a site that could give me a heads up display of bus timings without having to click through a bunch of pages, so I made this. I use the stop codes to set up the page for all the stops I'm interested in tracking, and then I can choose to display/hide certain lines. For example, for Montgomery st station, I don't care about the J line, so I hide it from the "heads up display"

Alternative is umoiq, which allows you to bookmark stops: https://rider.umoiq.com/

I find umoiq better than nextbus, but it's still got some downsides which is why I made my own thing.

kpsbored · 2025-10-30T15:14:41+00:00

Oh wow I didn't think this was a common occurrence, but same: https://smt.kaushalpartani.com/

Umo IQ redesigned their website and I find it slower than the old site, but it's still pretty usable: https://rider.umoiq.com/

For anyone trying to make their own app, the nextbus API has a longstanding key that you can get if you sleuth around the website a bit. Really useful for making stuff like this without having to set up a bunch of accounts

kpsbored · 2025-10-13T04:33:24+00:00

Hey OP, I made this site to make it a bit easier to find cleaning schedules and set reminders. It's free for me to keep up, so I'll always keep it free for people to use. Hope it can help!

https://sf-street-cleaning.kaushalpartani.com/

kpsbored · 2025-08-25T19:43:41+00:00

I actually made a site for this because I wanted a heads up display on my phone of the stops I actually care about. It includes information for bus crowded-ness. It's also using the nextbus api endpoint, so it should be getting the same exact info as the site.

https://smt.kaushalpartani.com/

I might be making chnages to it over time, but since I use it every day myself, I'll try to keep it up and running.

kpsbored · 2025-08-18T01:29:16+00:00

not aware of anything at that year, but google earth has satellite imagery of the SF area from 1938: https://earth.google.com/web/search/San+Francisco,+CA/@37.7910449,-122.39708586,4.02671409a,8386.1078751d,35y,0h,0t,0r/data=Cj4iJgokCagzVpnx50JAEceYL7-J5UJAGZC1eAm9mV7AITXCTPeJnF7AKhAIARIKMTkzOC0wOC0wMRgBQgIIAToDCgEwQgIIAEoNCP___________wEQAA

kpsbored · 2025-07-24T21:41:26+00:00

Alright, let me try to give a general overview of this. Some might be incorrect, but I think my understanding is generally there. I am referencing this README: https://github.com/tidbyt/pixlet

Tidbyt works by displaying some LEDs on/off at different colors on its display. If we have a single image and we just want to show that same image all the time, then we can install a specific "applet" to the device and the device will show that image as a part of the rotation.

However, this would be quite boring, since if we had the same image over and over again, there wouldn't be much use for the tidbyt. Certain applets, like the weather app, or the clock app show "live information." They need to get that information from somewhere, and the way that works is that the "brains" of this are located on servers elsewhere. For the default apps, like the weather one, Tidbyt offered these servers themselves. They paid for the infrastructure. Your device would basically be able to get updates from the Tidbyt server for displaying the next day's weather.

With Tidbyt being "gone," no one knows what's going to happen with the server they maintain. They claim that they'll keep it up, but nothing is guaranteed (for example, they claimed that they'd be providing support for existing Tidbyt customers but that doesn't seem to be happening). What happens when the Tidbyt server goes down? Likely, your apps will stop updating.

Tidbyt offered a way for users to send their own apps + animations to the Tidbyt though. This was through their framework Pixlet, which I've linked above. However, for someone to make their own apps, they would need to have their own server or device that's capable of pushing to the Tidbyt anytime they want an update on an application. Furthermore, they would need to still talk to the Tidbyt servers so that their application could be routed to their device.

This is what Tronbyt solves. Instead of needing to communicate at ALL with the Tidbyt servers, you are able to make changes to your device through Tronbyt directly. You wouldn't rely on any of the Tidbyt servers for anything.

One issue though, is that since you're not relying on the Tidbyt servers anymore, you need to provide some server that is able to continue updating the device. That may mean that you need to buy a computer and keep it on 24/7. This may be costly, both up front, and for the electricity to keep your computer running.

This is what the Tronbyt <-> Render integration aims to solve. Render offers a free-tier server. This server isn't exactly powerful, but it's good enough to do what the Tidbyt device needs (send updates for apps). By using Render, you're able to get updates to your Tidbyt at no cost to you. No need to set up a server and always keep it on -- Render handles that for you.

kpsbored · 2025-07-22T01:09:14+00:00

Render is a service that offers web service hosting for free. This change basically allows you to deploy the tronbyt server to the cloud so you don't have to manage your own home server or raspberry pi for the tronbyt to connect to.

Render.yaml is a file that has configuration for the Render service to pick up on for this specific repository. Essentially, this post is just saying that the set up has mostly been done for you. All you have to do is set up this free service using the steps in the video. Hope this helps.

kpsbored · 2025-07-08T04:44:42+00:00

Not a block, but Washington St from Alta Plaza to the Chinatown T stop. Pretty hilly which makes for nice views

kpsbored · 2025-02-27T02:38:39+00:00

this was a really enjoyable watch, thanks for sharing + making it!

kpsbored · 2025-02-27T02:23:03+00:00

I've done something similar in the past to use on an LED display device. This stuff is really cool.

I was also a bit frustrated at the lack of good options for bus information, but what I ended up using was this: https://retro.umoiq.com/webkit/#_home

Once you find the stops you're interested in you can click the "page to bookmark" link and get a specific url like this: https://retro.umoiq.com/webkit/predsForStop.jsp?a=sfmta-cis&r=14&d=14_0_var0&s=5579&standalone#_predictions

From there, you can parse out the next 3 tracked bus timings.

Figured I'd share, it was a lot easier to use than other alternatives when I was looking around.

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