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Like in many other towns you find in Dresden "Depature Monitors" at the bus and tramway stations.

The public transport company in Dresden released some widgets in 2009 to place a widget on your desktop. That's fine for the plenty of people sitting in front of their computers up to the evening and don't want to wait long time for the tram to get home.

But really interessting is this depature monitor if you can access it from everywhere - using you cellphone. For these people the DVB offers a WAP page. But this is not very userfriendly.

Many projects startet to grab the depature information from the widget interface. From wget to iPhone and Android Apps.

Today, I release another approach: The ab_vvo_depmon TYPO3 extension. This is running on m.bigga.de. A minimalistic website you may use with your mobile browser. Or use it with your desktop browser. Some features:

• update every 60s
• data is cached in local database to reduce request to the widget server
• select the vehicle categories (bus, tram, train)
• remove destinations by clicking on it
• save the hole URL as bookmark to access your station quickly

This is a private service without any warranty. Maybe you find it useful.

Links:

• m.bigga.de
• DVB Widgets
• Android APP ddtram
• C3D2 Projekt DVB-Scraping