Description Manage your adult Oyster and contactless cards on the move with the app. BenjiBaby2010 First, I must say that it is good to have an app where you can check your cards, add top ups, check your journey history and correct error when you didn’t register your tap in correctly.
That’s really good. Now the bad stuff.
This app is badly designed from a user experience point of view. It’s not nearly as intuitive as most apps should be on an iPhone and the layout is chaotic.
I suspect it was designed by committee at TfL rather than by an experienced app developer who would have had the user in mind. I’ve been involved in successful consultations on apps in development and I’ve seen this go wrong before, but this is honestly the most amateur big-company app that I’ve seen in about 4 years. The other big missed opportunity here is that TfL should have incorporated the journey planner in to the app. At the moment, it just forwards you the TfL journey planner website which means you’ve got to wait for that page to load and for all graphics to load each time you get the results. Please can TfL include this in the app itself with an improved layout that allows intuitive use right from the first screen of the app and gives faster loading for those times when you’re rushing for the train and need to know which platform to run to?
The incorporation of the journey planner in to the app itself would definitely have added an extra star to my review. BenjiBaby2010 First, I must say that it is good to have an app where you can check your cards, add top ups, check your journey history and correct error when you didn’t register your tap in correctly. That’s really good. Now the bad stuff.
This app is badly designed from a user experience point of view. It’s not nearly as intuitive as most apps should be on an iPhone and the layout is chaotic. I suspect it was designed by committee at TfL rather than by an experienced app developer who would have had the user in mind. I’ve been involved in successful consultations on apps in development and I’ve seen this go wrong before, but this is honestly the most amateur big-company app that I’ve seen in about 4 years. The other big missed opportunity here is that TfL should have incorporated the journey planner in to the app. At the moment, it just forwards you the TfL journey planner website which means you’ve got to wait for that page to load and for all graphics to load each time you get the results.
Please can TfL include this in the app itself with an improved layout that allows intuitive use right from the first screen of the app and gives faster loading for those times when you’re rushing for the train and need to know which platform to run to? The incorporation of the journey planner in to the app itself would definitely have added an extra star to my review.
GGeek82 I was redirected to the app from the tfl webpage when I was trying to get an update on a bus route and when it would resume normal service. I downloaded the app and the clicked on journey planner only to be directed back to the website on my browser away from the app. This app can be so much more then looking at ones oyster account but they haven't even bothered. It's really bad when apps like this are launched without being well just MORE, considering for instance Citymapper offer. This is TFL, everyone is getting this information from them, you would think they of all organisations would have first hand access to a huge amount of travel data. For instance I would like to type in a bus route and find out if it's taking diversions and when normal service will be resumed.
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Notifications on if my underground and DLR routes is having issues, etc. In this days and age you can't have apps like this. GGeek82 I was redirected to the app from the tfl webpage when I was trying to get an update on a bus route and when it would resume normal service. I downloaded the app and the clicked on journey planner only to be directed back to the website on my browser away from the app.
This app can be so much more then looking at ones oyster account but they haven't even bothered. It's really bad when apps like this are launched without being well just MORE, considering for instance Citymapper offer.
This is TFL, everyone is getting this information from them, you would think they of all organisations would have first hand access to a huge amount of travel data. For instance I would like to type in a bus route and find out if it's taking diversions and when normal service will be resumed. Notifications on if my underground and DLR routes is having issues, etc. In this days and age you can't have apps like this. IncubusDig The app says it can’t accept first generation Oyster cards and that you’ll need to upgrade. However it’s shows you how to tell if it’s first or second generation by the ‘D’ next to ‘Mayor of London’ at the back of the card.
So I am wondering why my card is not being accepted if it has a ‘D’ on the back and is clearly a second generation. Edit: I was trying to connect an 18+ Student Oyster ‘photocard’ and now understand that photocards are not accepted. This of course makes sense for the 16+ Oyster not to be accepted since it’s free travel however 18+ Student Oyster photo card is not. Seems like the photocard tfl site is the only way to see your credit for photocard users. This app will be better once this option added. IncubusDig The app says it can’t accept first generation Oyster cards and that you’ll need to upgrade. However it’s shows you how to tell if it’s first or second generation by the ‘D’ next to ‘Mayor of London’ at the back of the card.
So I am wondering why my card is not being accepted if it has a ‘D’ on the back and is clearly a second generation. Edit: I was trying to connect an 18+ Student Oyster ‘photocard’ and now understand that photocards are not accepted.
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This of course makes sense for the 16+ Oyster not to be accepted since it’s free travel however 18+ Student Oyster photo card is not. Seems like the photocard tfl site is the only way to see your credit for photocard users. This app will be better once this option added.
The 24 hour ‘hackathon’ at Over The Air, a grassroots developer event held in London over the weekend, delivered over twenty cool mobile projects, some of which were publicly available on mobile app stores before the event finished on Saturday evening. Many fine apps were presented on-stage, but what really caught the audience’s imagination was a cheeky little app called ‘Lobster’ that enables users to travel on the London bus network for free (more on this later). The term ‘hack’ in this hackathon event was used in the sense of developing code in a fast-and-furious fashion, rather than breaking into computer systems. Contestants – some working in teams, others alone – presented their work to the conference audience in 90-second pitch sessions at the end of the two-day event, before judges awarded prizes to the best projects in numerous categories. Most contestents produced mobile apps of some sort. IOS and Android the most popular platforms for native apps, though many opted to produce widgets or web-apps that leveraged mobile technology (e.g.
Location or SMS). Some had built apps that could controled hardware, such as robots, or toy cars. The API proved popular, with several development teams opting to produce SMS-aware apps and widgets that could delve into your message history and do stuff based on what messages you’ve been sent. One simple entry, a widget called ‘The Cleaner’ from Team Geek You Up, temporarily hides all icons from an Android phone’s home screen, allowing the user to get a proper look at his/her wallpaper.
Despite the simple premise, The Cleaner proved a hit with the judges, scooping two prizes in the competition, and had already enjoyed 400 downloads on Android Market by the time judging took place. Dance Dance Evolution One of the most polished entries came from ‘Team FeelTheFPness’, comprising three staff members from UK-based mobile outfit. Their effort, which won the ‘best game’ category, was an ambitious 2-player rhythm action game for the iPad. ‘Dance Dance Evolution’ (pictured) is a colorful and eclectic mash-up, incorporating such disparate elements as the theme tune to 80’s UK TV game show, the genetic sequencing data of one of the developers (provided by genetic sequencing company ), and caricatures of the Over The Air event organisers, as well as keynote speaker and inventor of the worldwide web,.
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Built in just 24 hours by a 3-man team comprising Future Platforms staff Doug Hoskins, Thom Hopper and Tom Hume, the development process proved quite a challenge, even for these seasoned mobile developers. Explaining how they approached the project, Tom Hume said: Doug did the vast majority of development; Thom did the visuals; and I did the DNA parsing and the sound-playing code. We all collaborated on the concept itself.
We knew we were biting off quite a bit when we started it – not having done such an interactive game on the iPad before, and working in such a short time. We hit a lot of technical challenges – for instance, the iPad just wouldn’t play sounds the way we wanted it to, and we had to rethink our approach to the audio completely. When I went to sleep at 3am, it was still looking ropey and I thought we’d struggle to get it together in time.
Dougie put in a sterling through-the-night effort, skipping sleep completely, and by 6:30am when I got up, it was looking nearly complete. The star of the hackathon – winning the ‘audience favorite’ prize – was an iPhone application that embodied the innovative spirit of the event. Simple, playful, genius, and by far the best example of ‘thinking outside the screen’, was a cheeky little app called ‘‘, which enables users to travel on the London bus network for free by ’emulating’ an. Lobster does not implement a complex RFID hack like that back in 2008, but bypasses the payment system on London buses with altogether more flair; it targets the weakest link in the chain the unreliable piece of wetware more commonly known as the bus driver.
How Lobster Works. When travelers board London buses, they have two options; pay the driver in exact change or hold their Oyster card to a scanner pad which will then emit a loud beep if the payment has been deducted from the balance on the card. Oyster card balances can be topped up all over London or online, and almost all Londoners carry one as they are the cheapest and most convenient way to access public transport. Oyster cards are typically stored in a generic wallet or holder and do not need to be removed or swiped in order to activate the proximity-sensor – simply held close to it. Team Light Blue had a hunch that bus drivers – who pick up and drop off thousands of passengers per day as they crawl through the congested London traffic on their routes – are probably fairly de-sensitized to the payment process; as long as the machine beeps when people scan their card, the driver assumes the payment has gone through. The cheeky chaps in team Light Blue set out to test this hypothesis by making a simple iPhone application that perfectly replicates the loud beep that is made by Oyster-reader. With a minimal interface (tap screen to beep), the app couldn’t be any more low-tech, but it works; the developers took it out for a test-drive on the London bus network.
In a 90-second presentation that drew the loudest applause of the event, the developers showed a short video clip of them boarding a bus, activating the app, and strolling to a seat without drawing suspicion from either the driver or any of the other passengers boarding the bus. In other words, they just invented a way to ride for free. Sadly, the same trick won’t work for the London Underground tube network, which operates Oyster-activated barriers, rather than a simple beeping payment box. Team Light Blue indicated that Lobster would be coming soon to the App Store. Quite how long it will survive there, given Apple’s penchant for banning controversial apps, remains to be seen. But it matters not now the ‘exploit’ is public, it won’t be long before there are ‘Oyster Emulator’ apps for every mobile device, possibly forcing changes to the Oyster payment system, or at least some extra training to help bus drivers spot micro-fraudsters at work.
Many credit cards have an NFC or RFID chip as well, which can be used to pay by just waving the card in front of a sensor, as opposed to having to swipe the magnetized bar in a reader. The tone you're hearing is presumably your device detecting a nearby NFC chip and prompting you whether you want to do anything. Incidentally, NFC chips in your credit card do raise the possibility of fraud or theft by thieves using NFC apps to lift info, as mentioned here:. That's why you're starting to see ads for credit card cases or wallets that can block NFC.
Its been 15 years since Londoners first got their hands on the Oyster Card, the travel card that's now synonymous with wallets across the capital. The piece below, originally written in 2016, explains exactly what makes your little blue friend tick. The gates clunk open. The Oyster card has become synonymous with London transport, but, for most of us, it’s nothing more than another card in the wallet. It’s technology reduced to nothing but two noises: a happy beep or an angry blip.
Inside that slip of blue plastic, however, there’s more than just a dumb microchip. How does it work? At its most basic, an Oyster card works with radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, which is the same technology used by NFC in smartphones. Place an Oyster card near a suitable RFID reader, and an electromagnetic field is created between the reader and the chip in your Oyster card. This allows data to be transferred from the reader to your card, indicating that you’ve either started or finished a leg of your journey. The Oyster card receives data, and the reader records the card’s unique user ID, so you can think of it rather like a paper ticket being stamped.
You’ll need to hold it a bit closer to the reader, Boris. The clever bit is that there’s no power source in the Oyster card itself – when it’s close enough to the card reader, the reader sends energy to the card via radio waves, generating power via a phenomenon known as electromagnetic induction. This powers up the microchip in the Oyster card long enough to let the reader access the data stored inside, allowing it to check whether the card contains a valid Travelcard or enough pay-as-you-go balance for the journey, and then write data back to it. What happens to my Oyster data? The Oyster readers at stations don’t immediately communicate with the TfL servers. Instead, they upload the recorded Oyster card information in batches to the central servers, which is why there’s a roughly 24-hour lag between you making a journey and the data being visible on the TfL website.
Transport for London retain the data of a particular Oyster card for eight weeks. This means that – if you’ve registered your card – you can go to the TfL website to see all the journeys you’ve made over that period, and whether you touched in and out successfully at each end. This is a good way of checking you haven’t been overcharged by a faulty Oyster reader. After eight weeks, the data isn’t deleted, but is anonymised, so is no longer associated with your user ID. What is the technology inside the Oyster card? When the Oyster card first came onto the scene in 2003, it was powered by a very basic microchip – the NXP/Philips’ MIFARE Classic.
This technology was widely used for workplace ID cards and electronic wallet applications. The chip did little more than store data – a whopping 1024 bytes of the stuff, or fifteen million times less storage than your average smartphone – and used NXP’s own proprietary 48-bit encryption technology.
However, NXP’s MIFARE Classic was dogged with security concerns. In January 2008, a German computer club, the Chaos Computer Club, worked alongside colleagues from the University of Virginia in breaking the card’s encryption. This allowed them to freely read data from the MIFARE Classic chips, add money to empty payment cards, generate new users with access rights, or even clone cards in their entirety. Following a variety of successful hacking demonstrations, in July 2008. The future of Oyster cards. 'The CPU in modern Oyster cards is based on an Intel design from the 1980s.' This prompted TfL to retire the MIFARE Classic-based cards in 2009, replacing them with the far more advanced MiFARE DESFire EV1 technology.
The current cards based on this technology are far more advanced than their Classic predecessors. They’re no longer relatively dumb data-storage chips, but are actually tiny, basic CPUs that are capable of basic computing tasks. In fact, the CPU in modern Oyster cards is actually based on the Intel MCS-51, a microcontroller designed by Intel way back in the 1980s.
The new Oyster cards still have no battery or power source, so are only powered when they’re near an RFID reader, but they contain their own operating system, have a file structure for storing files and data, and their processing functions allow them to perform encryption to the far more resilient AES 128-bit standard. Pretty clever stuff for something that looks like a credit card.
Can you hack an Oyster card? Fancy your chances at hacking a modern Oyster card? That’ll be tricky. Even though third-party RFID readers can power and communicate with them, the only way to recover the required AES encryption keys would be to steal one of the Oyster readers and reverse-engineer the whole process. Best of luck with slipping one of those in your back pocket.
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I got the tram on Sunday to Ikea but the card reader asked me to seek assistance and said I was not valid for travel. Rather than wait 20 minutes for the next Wimbledon bound tram I got on anyway. One stop down the line and the ticket inspectors were out in force. I thought oh bugger, but they just beeped my Oyster card and that was it. They were of course fining everyone who had no ticket or oyster but if they did have an oyster there was just 'beep' £1. If you have already validated your card you have 70 minutes of journey no matter how many times you are beeped, but does this mean that the ticket inspectors beepers are nothing more than validators? If this is the case you can just get on and only pay when confronted by a ticket inspector.
U75 reading ticket inspectors please advice. I got the tram on Sunday to Ikea but the card reader asked me to seek assistance and said I was not valid for travel. Rather than wait 20 minutes for the next Wimbledon bound tram I got on anyway.
One stop down the line and the ticket inspectors were out in force. I thought oh bugger, but they just beeped my Oyster card and that was it.
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They were of course fining everyone who had no ticket or oyster but if they did have an oyster there was just 'beep' £1. If you have already validated your card you have 70 minutes of journey no matter how many times you are beeped, but does this mean that the ticket inspectors beepers are nothing more than validators? If this is the case you can just get on and only pay when confronted by a ticket inspector. U75 reading ticket inspectors please advice. Click to expand.Ha ha don't worry, like I said before I don't think the advice advise thing was anything to do with dyslexia. It affects me more when I write (with a pencil) and read.
Sometimes I just can't see a word properly or things just don't look right. I can write a sentence and read it a million times and be confident it is perfect.
Then someone can read it out to me and all the words are round the wrong way or missing etc. Sadly that thing about people with dyslexia being more creative or higher functioning in some way is a myth.
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