dms-wiener-linien

A DankMaterialShell plugin that shows real-time Wiener Linien departure times on the DankBar.

Features

• Bar pill showing the next 1–2 departures per tracked stop as coloured line badges (U3 2′ 4A 7′), updated on a configurable interval.
• Popout with a full departure board: all tracked stops, sorted metro → tram → bus → night bus, with next three countdowns and a barrier-free indicator.
• Station picker in settings: type-to-filter across all 1 700+ Wiener Linien stops, click to add, click the × to remove.
• Automatic 5-minute backoff when the API rate limit is hit, with a human-readable status message instead of a raw error code.

Requirements

• DankMaterialShell with Quickshell ≥ 0.3.0.

No additional tools or credentials. The Wiener Linien Realtime API is open and unauthenticated.

Installing

Clone the repo into the DMS plugins directory and enable it under Settings → Plugins:

git clone https://github.com/Klievan/dms-wiener-linien \
    ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/dms-wiener-linien

For development, symlink instead:

ln -s ~/Projects/dms-wiener-linien \
    ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/dms-wiener-linien

After edits, reload without restarting DMS:

dms ipc call plugins reload wienerLinien

With Nix / home-manager:

xdg.configFile."DankMaterialShell/plugins/dms-wiener-linien".source =
  ./dms-wiener-linien;

Configuration

Settings → Plugins → Wiener Linien:

• Tracked stations: search by name, click to add. Stops are queried in a single batched API call per poll cycle.
• Poll interval: 30 s / 1 min / 2 min / 5 min (default 1 min). The Wiener Linien API asks that clients do not poll more than once every 15 seconds; the plugin enforces this as a hard floor regardless of the chosen interval.

Updating station data

The station search is powered by a bundled static file (data/stations.js) generated from the Wiener Linien OGD open data. To refresh it, download the three CSVs and run the script:

# Download
curl -O https://data.wien.gv.at/csv/wienerlinien-ogd-haltestellen.csv
curl -O https://data.wien.gv.at/csv/wienerlinien-ogd-steige.csv
curl -O https://data.wien.gv.at/csv/wienerlinien-ogd-linien.csv

# Regenerate
python3 scripts/generate_stations.py \
    wienerlinien-ogd-haltestellen.csv \
    wienerlinien-ogd-steige.csv \
    wienerlinien-ogd-linien.csv

API

Uses the Wiener Linien Realtime API v1.5:

GET http://www.wienerlinien.at/ogd_realtime/monitor?stopId=<rbl>&stopId=<rbl>…

No API key required. Multiple stop IDs are batched into one request per poll.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.