A board shows the next departures from one to three stops on a screen: a television, a tablet, a monitor. Configure it at my.quavern.com/account/quavsit-boards, then open the link on the screen. Any browser that can open a web page can show it — nothing to install, nothing to sign in to.
The link is the access
The screen holds a board token, not your API key. Anyone with the link sees that board. Once a link is on a screen, treat it as public; if it spreads further than you want, issue a new link and the old one stops working.
What a board costs
It spends your Quavsit units, on the same plan, overage setting and spend cap as the API. No extra price.
1 unit per stop panel per refresh. A board refreshes at most once per its interval, however many screens show it: every other request inside that window is served from its cache for nothing.
With alerts on, 1 unit per panel at most once every 300 seconds.
0 units while the board is paused, outside its active hours, or when no screen is asking. A board nobody displays costs nothing.
The editor shows the worst case before you save it, and that ceiling is reached only if a screen is on for every active minute.
How many boards
Plan | Boards |
Free | 1 |
Pay as you go | 3 |
Starter | 3 |
Pro | 10 |
Max | 30 |
Enterprise | 200 |
Choosing the settings
Stops. One to three. A stop area shows every platform; a single stop point shows one platform, which is how to keep one direction.
Rows. More departures means smaller type. Six reads well across a room.
Interval. Between refreshes the screen counts the minutes down on its own. A shorter interval costs more units.
Hours. In the stop's local time. An end before the start runs past midnight.
Field. Light for a lit room, dark for a dim one. A board is pinned to one, never the viewer's system setting.
Two networks share a daily quota
Île-de-France Mobilités and SNCF get their departures from a small daily upstream quota shared by every Quavsit caller, and a board is a continuous reader. As that quota empties, the engine stretches its cache; then the panel shows data marked as delayed, up to 15 minutes old; then the panel reports an upstream budget error until the quota resets at midnight. A failed panel is never charged. The editor shows a note beside such a stop.
When a board says it is unavailable
The charge was refused: the monthly units are spent, or the spend cap was reached. Raise the cap, turn overage on, or wait for the next period. Nothing is served for free.
A board on a network that has not been ingested yet reports that its data is unavailable until the first refresh.
If a screen goes blank or stale
Reload the page. If it comes back wrong, write to [email protected] with the board's name and the stops on it — not the board link, which is the access.
Quavern help reference: quavsit-departure-boards/en