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Hi,

~~EDIT Athe app is not able to sync at the moment due to TfL website performance issues. hope this is not caused by Reddit traffic O_o~~

Oyster Sync, free and with no ads android app now allows you to one-click submit service delay requests to TfL. If your journeys is delayed by more than 15 min for reasons within TfL control (signal failure etc) you can request journey fare refund. The app highlights in yellow all journeys that took more than 20 min (15 min delay + 5 min margin to amount for waiting for the train, walk between gate and platform etc) compared to TfL journey planner's estimate and displays a form to automatically submit claim to TfL.

New version is available on beta channel now, I'm looking for testers/early adopters as my journeys are usually very short so I've never claimed for delay refund myself.

PLAY STORE LINK - Beta channel

PLAY STORE LINK - non-beta

Thanks

This is a follow up to a reddit post from couple of weeks ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/3loih9/hi_london_tube_users_ever_wondered_how_much_do/ .

This is one of my hobby android app projects. The app stores your Oyster/Contactless travel data on your device, sync it on daily basis, displays interesting stats and on top of that you can now tap to go to live arrivals.

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cooldataapps.oystersync

Any feedback welcome.

If you use android I recommend the app I've created - Oyster Sync - main features of the app are

• oyster balance updated every hour (when sync is enabled)
• oyster/contactless journey history
• travel statistics
• one-tap departures info from your most used stations
• one-tap service delay refunds submissions, for delayed journeys (Oyster cards only)
• compare PAYG spend to travelcard prices

The app uses internal/unofficial TfL API to retrieve cards info as TfL provides API only for journey planner/stations info.

The app went live in October, some statistics: 5,000+ downloads, 000s of daily users, 100 new users per day, 250 out of 400 submitted refund claims were successful.

I use Oyster Sync (Android) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cooldataapps.oystersync&hl=en_GB

TFL updated their api/login a while ago, that's why claimmyrefund stopped working.

Hi NYC! I'm a London-based developer (app developing is my hobby I do in free time) and want to port my 4.6-stars rated London tube balance app Oyster Sync https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cooldataapps.oystersync&hl=en to also work with NYC subway Metrocard/EasyPay Xpress card.

The way the app works in London is that since there is no official developer API to access London tube account and journey history details the app simulates browser behaviour by sending standard https requests and parsing returned html or json. It was very easy to reverse-engineer the API as I do have a london tube account, however to port the app to NYC I would need some help from someone that has EasyPay Xpress account.

Would anyone be interested in helping? Or maybe the whole idea doesn't make any sense and there is no need for such an app for NYC?

Help needed is this - this is a bit a long shot I suppose, but someone would need to share with me username and password to the EasyPay account with journey history. This is only for limited time so I could reverse engineer https requests sent by the browser, I think I would need it for 2-4 weeks, after that a password could be changed.

Alternatively, someone could create a brand new account, I could top it up with £20 USD which they could use it to travel to produce some journey history. I think this is actually better as I could keep username/password for all the time and use it for testing.

Or any other ideas welcome, I'll send my linkedin detials to any volunteers for verification purposes.

Thanks!

If you keep tapping in and out every time you travel you will be able to see your complete journey history, analyse travel time and in case of delays you will be able to claim for fare refund. If you use Android I recommend this app (my hobby project) to do this - Oyster Sync

If you decide to start with PAYG I recommend you to install my Oyster Sync and Refunds app (Android only for now) - it allows you to compare your PAYG spend with travel card prices (and also does lots more)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cooldataapps.oystersync&hl=en_GB

hi! I've added oyster refunds detection to the app I'm working on. the app highlights journeys that took 15 min of more than journeys planer's estimate and informs the users they may be entitled to a refund. automatic filling of TfL refund form will come next. would you be interested in giving it a try? link to screenshots - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cooldataapps.oystersync

This is the link when I click share app.. Oyster Sync? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cooldataapps.oystersync