This application provides a simple interface to check the ‘live’ departure times of train services across the metropolitan area of Perth, Western Australia.

The application can be installed by downloading the deb package.

Any feedback is most welcome. The project homepage is at: http://projects.developer.nokia.com/perthtrains

The application uses Python/Qt (PySide/QML). Source code is hosted at gitorious.

It also works in portrait mode:

It is primarily intended for the Maemo 5 platform on the Nokia N900, but will also run under Ubuntu:

Still needs plenty of work, but I am finding it quite useful while out and about in Perth.

I recently received my N900 (it had to be forwarded on to me in Australia from the UK) – and it’s easily the best phone i have ever used. Maemo 5 rocks, and its amazing to be running this kind of software on a device like this.

The web browser is fantastic (based on the gecko backend) – I’ve composed all of this post on the device using the standard wordpress backend.

Seems to work fine with Ubuntu as well – it shows up as a mass storage device and a GSM connection when I connected it to my machine with USB.

I have been attempting to improve my python skills, so maybe I’ll attempt to create some simple python and gtk apps.