Notification Support

Summary

• Added support for scrolling notifications with the send_notification method
• Added self-healing through a sofware reset of code.py when the API check timers get too stale

Required APIs

• WMATA API (source)
• Openweather Onecall 3.0 (source)
• Adafruit IO Time (source)

General Release

Summary
Added day/night cycling feature to turn off display during non-operational metro hours. This release fulfills the project MVP scope and should be considered general release for v1.0.0.

Features

• Queries the time of day to determine whether to display day or night mode
• Changes the display background and text colors based on day or night mode

Required APIs

• WMATA API (source)
• Openweather Onecall 3.0 (source)
• Adafruit IO Time (source)

Weather Display Support

Summary
Added Openweather weather data to left side of display

Features

• Queries the Openweather Onecall 3.0 endpoint for current weather, temperature trend, and daily high and low temperatures

Required APIs

• WMATA API (source)
• Openweather Onecall 3.0 (source)
• Adafruit IO Time (source)

Metro Rail Data Display MVP

Summary
First major release for the DC Metro Sign project. Contains the following initial features:

Features

• Queries the WMATA API for Real-time Rail data
• Displays Real-time Rail data for a specified Metro station on an attached LED panel

Required APIs

• WMATA API (source)