CSE Undergrad News

One of the more common problems experienced in OneBusAway is a constantly increasing delay time that will suddenly jump back down to “on time” or a much smaller delay. If you’ve witnessed this problem, we could use your help with testing!

We’ve released a beta that can be accessed at http://kcm-beta.onebusaway.org, or can be used as a custom API in the Android or iOS versions (detailed instructions below). Note that the beta only works with King County Metro buses (since the problem seems to only be with their agency).

We’d really appreciate it if you could use the beta and let us know if you experience this problem, or a problem of another sort (e.g., a bus reported too early). If you do notice a problem with the beta version, shoot me an e-mail describing the problem with the day, time, route number and direction, and (if possible) the vehicle number of the bus with the problem.

Any problems getting the beta to work, just let me know. We hope that this problem will be resolved soon, and we’re really sorry if it’s ever caused you to miss a bus!

Thanks!

Caitlin

Under Settings>Advanced, choose “OneBusAway API Server.” Enter kcm-beta.onebusaway.org as the url.

You’ll need to sign up to be a beta tester for OBA iOS on TestFlight in order to use the custom API setting (unfortunately, there’s a bug in the production version).

Once you’re approved, and have the latest beta (2.2.2) of OneBusAway installed, go to the Info tab, then select Settings>Puget Sound (under ‘Region’), then scroll down and select “Custom API URL.” Enter kcm-beta.onebusaway.org here.

**Note: To switch back to the production version of the data, you will have to select Puget Sound as your region again in the settings.