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I had been using BusTimes, a great app from Kevin Wells but it stopped
working with an error.

Reporter output..

12:20:04.67 Exec
12:20:14.41 wget http://transportapi.com/v3/uk/bus/stop/1990PH130232/live.json?group=yes&nextbuses=yes&app_id=861d1af6&app_key=bff7016a8aeb73e720ecb5da6c6be823 -q
-O <Wimp$ScrapDir>.BusTimes.bus
12:20:14.41 WimpSlot -min 2968k
12:20:14.41 Run ADFS::FAST.$.!BOOT.Resources.!Wget.wget http://transportapi.com/v3/uk/bus/stop/1990PH130232/live.json?group=yes&nextbuses=yes&app_id=861d1af6&app_key=bff7016a8aeb73e720ecb5da6c6be823 -q
-O <Wimp$ScrapDir>.BusTimes.bus
12:20:14.43 RMEnsure SharedUnixLibrary 1.07 RMLoad
System:Modules.SharedULib
12:20:14.43 RMEnsure SharedUnixLibrary 1.07 RMLoad
UnixLib:Modules.SharedULib
12:20:14.43 RMEnsure SharedUnixLibrary 1.07 Error XYZ
12:20:15.18 Exec
12:20:15.24 ** BASICError ** ERR=26 Unknown or missing variable ERL=1081 12:20:15.24 ** WimpError ** from Error from BusTimes
Error : &00000000
Message: Unknown or missing variable at line 1081
12:20:15.24 Exec
12:20:17.01 Exec

I had a key but can't find the details and I can't find where it's stored
in the app or on the computer to check if all is OK.

I seem to remember Kevin saying there was a problem with the API key and
he was looking for a new provider.

I've emailed Kev but no reply yet. Probably very busy.

Has anyone else got this working?
--
Chris
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On 20 Oct 2025 as I do recall,
Chris Newman wrote:

I had been using BusTimes, a great app from Kevin Wells but it stopped working with an error.

[snip]

I had a key but can't find the details and I can't find where it's stored
in the app or on the computer to check if all is OK.

It's probably stored in <Choices$Write>.BusTimes.API (by analogy with
my TrainTimes API file location)

It's just a two-line file with your user ID as Key1 and a 40-byte hex
number as Key2.

But I don't know how you would check this for validity!
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In article <8f36cb6e5c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>, Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

On 20 Oct 2025 as I do recall, Chris Newman wrote:

I had been using BusTimes, a great app from Kevin Wells but it
stopped working with an error.

[snip]

I had a key but can't find the details and I can't find where it's
stored in the app or on the computer to check if all is OK.

It's probably stored in <Choices$Write>.BusTimes.API (by analogy with
my TrainTimes API file location)

It's just a two-line file with your user ID as Key1 and a 40-byte hex
number as Key2.

But I don't know how you would check this for validity!

Thanks for that. My train times indeed has its API there but Bus Times
doesn't have one at at. Strange! Where did that go? I tried the train one
but that didn't work. I seem to recall that originally, one key did all.
--
Chris
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On 20 Oct, Chris Newman wrote in message
<5c6ebc7304newslists@npost.uk>:

I had been using BusTimes, a great app from Kevin Wells but it stopped working with an error.

If that was this morning, it might be worth trying it again when AWS have sorted their issues out -- just in case the UK's bus tracking infrastructure
is cloud-based and with a certain cloud provider (the railways certainly
appear to have some dependencies).

BASICError ** ERR=26 Unknown or missing variable ERL=1081 12:20:15.24 ** WimpError ** from Error from BusTimes
Error : &00000000
Message: Unknown or missing variable at line 1081

That doesn't look like a good error... Perhaps BusTimes has a bug, too?
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http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/
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In message <5c6ed38cfdnewslists@npost.uk>
Chris Newman <newslists@npost.uk> wrote:

In article <8f36cb6e5c.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk>, Harriet Bazley ><harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> wrote:

On 20 Oct 2025 as I do recall, Chris Newman wrote:

I had been using BusTimes, a great app from Kevin Wells but it
stopped working with an error.

[snip]

I had a key but can't find the details and I can't find where it's
stored in the app or on the computer to check if all is OK.

It's probably stored in <Choices$Write>.BusTimes.API (by analogy with
my TrainTimes API file location)

It's just a two-line file with your user ID as Key1 and a 40-byte hex
number as Key2.

But I don't know how you would check this for validity!

Thanks for that. My train times indeed has its API there but Bus Times >doesn't have one at at. Strange! Where did that go? I tried the train one
but that didn't work. I seem to recall that originally, one key did all.

BusTimes and TrainTimes use different API providers, and the API
provider for BusTimes stopped working so I'm looking for a new BusTimes
API provider.

I found one for TrainTimes that is why it is at version 2. whilst
BusTimes is at version 1. when I find a new bus time table provider then BusTimes will move to version 2
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Kev Wells
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carpe cervisium
They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,
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In article <mpro.t4fz8h00r0gkv09sg.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>,
Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:

On 20 Oct, Chris Newman wrote in message
<5c6ebc7304newslists@npost.uk>:

I had been using BusTimes, a great app from Kevin Wells but it
stopped working with an error.

If that was this morning, it might be worth trying it again when
AWS have sorted their issues out -- just in case the UK's bus
tracking infrastructure is cloud-based and with a certain cloud
provider (the railways certainly appear to have some dependencies).

BASICError ** ERR=26 Unknown or missing variable ERL=1081
12:20:15.24 ** WimpError ** from Error from BusTimes
Error : &00000000
Message: Unknown or missing variable at line 1081

That doesn't look like a good error... Perhaps BusTimes has a bug,
too?

Agreed.
It seems that line 1081 references test%, which has not been defined.

The error can be displayed very simply: If BusTimes v1.19 is started,
and Select clicked in the iconbar, the error is raised. At that point,
PROCnull has not been called, which is the only place where test% is
set.

This may only happen when a wget does not give the expected results,
but nevertheless is a bug that can (and has!) happened, which could be
made less confusing for users.
--
Martin Avison
Note that unfortunately this email address will become invalid
without notice if (when) any spam is received.
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