Live traffic travel time tile

[josh]

Yes, we’ve seen people use Shields.io for pulling in data from external sources like WebCoRE, stocks, etc.

The main concept is to use Shields.io to create an image which works great with the SharpTools.io Media Tile.

How To: View WebCoRE Variables in SharpTools Dashboards

Following on from the Display data from WebCoRE or other non ST Device Type? - #4 thread, here’s an approach that can be used to display data from WebCoRE or other third party services that can publish JSON in SharpTools… The resulting output looks like the following tile that says ‘hello world’: [image] With the introduction of HTTP Triggers to SharpTools Rules, it’s now possible to directly send WebCoRE variables to SharpTools. You can find more details in the reply a c…

Is there an easy way to show stock price?

Bear with me as this is a bit of a Rube Goldberg setup, but I tried it out and if I understand what you’re looking for, I believe it accomplishes what you are looking for… [image] It looks like barchart.com has commodities data available via an API for free and we can combine that with shields.io (similar to this post) to generate an image for a Media Tile. How to Setup a Custom Commodities Price Tile for Corn Summary Sign up for a barchart.com API Key. Replace the XXXX in the following URL …

Edit

For anyone who finds this post via search, here’s a Commute Time generator another user put together:

Commute time Map tile generator

Hey everyone! I made a utility to generate a map tile that shows your commute time and updates on a set interval. It uses the Google Maps API so you’ll need an API key. Example [image] Hope it’s helpful!