Am I required to use the Adafruit Matrix Hat and Dot Matrix display?

[GarlicPancake]

Hello,

I am wondering if the Adafruit Matrix Hat and Dot Matrix display is required to view metro rail times. I've inserted all of the code into the Raspberry Pi and it seems working when I start it and continually refresh the log file. I wonder if there is a way to view these times on a desktop monitor?

Thanks!

[kenschneider18]

This program is designed to grab the data from WMATA and put it on a dot matrix display, there’s no flag or anything you can pass to it to display it on a desktop monitor.

However, you could take the functionality that calls the API and build out your own way to display it on your desktop be it a terminal window or a custom UI. The function that actually returns the WMATA API data is here.

It’s worth pointing out that the code linked above is the easy part. Coding the display would be the bigger challenge.

[kenschneider18]

Closing due to inactivity.