FareBot

Read your balance & more from public transit cards.

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Read your balance & more from public transit cards.

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This is fantastic @codebutler! I have so many of these transit cards laying around. As I discovered the hard way, my NYC MTA card has an expiry date too. If I can find my Clipper card, I'll test FareBot with it. Are you using existing APIs to collect the fare information or are you working with agencies directly? I'd love to get this for Boston MBTA and NYC MTA as well.

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9yr ago

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@kunalslab Thanks!! Each card uses a proprietary format and needs to be individually reverse-engineered. I haven't received any official support from transit agencies so far. There's some discussion on supporting the Boston card here: https://github.com/codebutler/fa... Unfortunately the outdated NYC MetroCard uses magstripe, not NFC. The MTA is (very slowly) working to replace this: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-y...

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9yr ago

Don't Sh*t Your Pants

Maker

Thanks for checking out FareBot! Here's the list of supported cards: - ORCA - Seattle, WA, USA 🇺🇸 - Clipper - San Francisco, CA, USA 🇺🇸 - Suica, ICOCA, PASMO, Edy - Japan 🇯🇵 - Matkakortti, HSL - Finland 🇫🇮 - Octopus - Hong Kong 🇭🇰 - Opal - Sydney, NSW, Australia 🇦🇺 - Myki - Melbourne, VIC, Australia 🇦🇺 - NETS FlashPay - Singapore 🇸🇬 - EZ-Link - Singapore 🇸🇬 These cards are also supported, but require encryption keys: - OV-chipkaart - Netherlands 🇳🇱 - Bilhete Único - São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷 - Go card - Brisbane, QLD, Australia 🇦🇺 - Manly Fast Ferry - Sydney, NSW, Australia 🇦🇺 Let me know if you have any questions!

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9yr ago

FindALostPet

@codebutler Looks cool. Any plans to add support for Vancouver's Compass Card?

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9yr ago

Don't Sh*t Your Pants

Maker

@laef Thanks! Unfortunately the Compass card doesn't have any data readable without authentication: https://github.com/codebutler/fa...

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9yr ago

When can we expect a version of this on iOS?

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9yr ago

@manjunathibs (not the maker). These cards require NFC access. I believe NFC is being opened up to some extent in the next version of iOS which comes out this fall. I'm not sure if apps are able to use it for this purpose or not but I hope so!

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9yr ago

Don't Sh*t Your Pants

Maker

@manjunathibs @tombielecki Unfortunately the iOS Core NFC framework only supports NDEF, and FareBot requires access to lower-level NFC APIs.

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9yr ago

Thanks @tombielecki ! I had this doubt when I saw it was NFC that was the core of this product. Nevertheless, we can only hope Apple exposes APIs to get these features on to iPhone.

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9yr ago

@tombielecki @codebutler Thanks! I would be glad to use this when it comes to the iPhone. Cheers!

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9yr ago

Any update on an iPhone version? NFC still too deep?

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7yr ago

Will this work on the Galaxy S21 Ultra?

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5yr ago

I thought this project was dead. Glad to see an update!

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9yr ago

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