NYC's MTA Train Time Realtime in TouchDesigner!

In this video, I walk through a project that I have built to display real time train updates for any line or station in New York City's subway system, using a publicly available API! We will walk though all the steps from API setup to textual display, and along the way touch on some higher-level concepts that are not always front and center.
In this video / project file, you will see:
- How to use any table DAT as a parameter menu source
- Why running a local server in a separate process can be a helpful technique
- A live example of using a .bat file to start up a project
- Fully featured TouchDesigner fluid simulation
Project Files:
/ water__shed
MTAPI: github.com/jonthornton/MTAPI
00:00 - Start
01:19 - NYC MTA Train Time Project Overview
02:57 - MTAPI Setup
15:00 - Patch Walkthru - Dynamic Parameter Menu Lists
19:13 - TD MTAPI Extension Overview
25:56 - MTA Stations Rendering Setup
29:06 - Arrival Time Display Cards
34:04 - Start with .bat file

[@technotion_]

Fantastic work! Im super interested in doing these kind of urban displays within touchdesigner, visualizing urban data is the best. Thanks for posting this and your other tutorials. Ill be working through them soon.

[@iliac26]

Thank you so much for posting this! You make incredible work and I appreciate how well you explain things. I had been looking for a tutorial that connects APIs into TD so this video is a perfect starting point for me. I would love an in-depth tutorial that goes deeper into the data aspects and how they're connected. Thank you!!

[@water__shed]

thank you@ im happy you found it useful. and thanks for the feedback! i have a couple older tutorials using the citibike rideshare API and a weather API that might be useful for you as well (the citibike tutorial is in a few parts and i get much deeper into the data usage side of things)

[@khoile4477]

This is great Lake

[@water__shed]

thank you! glad you are finding it helpful

[@technotion_]

Fantastic work! Im super interested in doing these kind of urban displays within touchdesigner, visualizing urban data is the best. Thanks for posting this and your other tutorials. Ill be working through them soon.