Inspired by Dynamic Dave's "trainspotting" exercise, I am (again) making a departures board for railway stations. Looking at the result without any styling overrides, it's very plain. Clearly it can be enhanced, I just wondered how other Node-red fans would choose to display this data. [Untitled…

You could always build one like this :wink: [image] UK train departure screen — The MagPi magazine A Raspberry Pi enthusiast sets about making an accurate train departure time board

I found that while looking for a font, and here is the one he uses - [image] GitHub - DanielHartUK/Dot-Matrix-Typeface: A simple Dot Matrix style typeface A simple Dot Matrix style typeface. Contribute to DanielHartUK/Dot-Matrix-Typeface development by creating an account on GitHub. …

Now I have the font I will see what I can come up with :wink:

Needs a bit of work but how about this ? [image]

will work on layout later tonight :wink:

Try this for size, not sure it's what you were after but it was fun learning how to do it :wink: I checked lots of pictures on Google and there are a lot of variations in use so this is an "average" look. [image] You will need to get the fonts and copy into node-red folder. Change names and path…

Ah, you've dumped the node-red-node-ui-table in favour of a hand crafted table in a template! I'm tempted to do the same thing, the table widget is a nightmare to style. It's a very authentic and familiar departures board which makes it easy to understand. There is an interesting gallery of LED a…

This is what I've come up with, based on flight information boards at LHR . I know, wrong yellow. Life is too short to vertically align "Plat" and platform numbers :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: [Untitled 2] Anyone else?

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jbudd 17 January 2022 18:40 3

He's done an excellent job of emulating BR's, or whatever it's called now, platform information signs.
No Node-Red though.

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