SBB for Omarchy

Your next Swiss train, right in the Omarchy bar. Know whether the IR 70 is on time before you sprint to platform 8, not after.

What you get

• A bar pill with your next train: line, destination, time, and a countdown. Late? It says +4'. Cancelled? It says so, sadly.
• Follow your commute. Don't care about every train leaving your station? Set a route like Bern > Thun and the pill and board show only the next connections for it, changes included.
• A departures board (click the pill). Hit Enter on a train to see its stops and whether the platform changed on you.
• Route search (right click). Type Luzern, or Bern > Thun, press Enter, done. Pick "in 30 min" if you're running late on purpose.
• Favourite routes. ctrl s saves one, ctrl 1–9 brings it back.
• Delay alerts. A notification when your train is late or cancelled, so you can finish your coffee.
• Settings inside the popup (, on the board). No config files needed.

Install

omarchy plugin add https://github.com/vvkycodevv/omarchy-sbb.git --enable

It shows up on the right of the bar. Prefer the middle?

omarchy bar move vvkycodevv.sbb --section center

Driving it

Where	Keys
Pill	left click: board · right click: route search · middle click: refresh
Board	↑↓ pick a train · Enter details · / search · r refresh · , settings · Esc close
Route search	Enter search / open a connection · Tab swap from and to · ctrl s save favourite · ctrl t later departures · ctrl 1–9 favourites · Esc back or close
Settings	↑↓ move · Enter edit or toggle · x delete a favourite · Esc back

Settings

Change them in the popup (, on the board), in Setup > Bar, or in the widget's entry in ~/.config/omarchy/shell.json.

Key	Default	What it does
homeStation	Zürich HB	Where the board and pill look for trains
barMode	Home station	Route follows barRoute instead of the whole station
barRoute	empty	From > To, e.g. Bern > Thun; just Thun starts at homeStation
barDestination	empty	Home station mode: only follow trains that stop here, e.g. Luzern
barStyle	Full	Compact keeps just the time and status
showInBar	true	false leaves only the little train icon
palette	Figma	Theme follows your Omarchy theme instead of Tokyo Night
departures	8	Trains on the board (3–20)
connections	5	Results per route search, favourites too (1–10)
refreshSeconds	60	How often to check the timetable
delayAlertMinutes	3	Notify at this delay; 0 means "don't tell me"
badgeStyle	Rail red	Theme for calmer line badges
favourites	empty	From > To, separated by ;, e.g. Bern > Thun; Basel SBB > Olten
shortcuts	true	Register the keyboard shortcuts below
boardShortcut	SUPER + ALT + T	Opens the board
searchShortcut	SUPER + ALT + R	Opens the route search
favouriteShortcut	SUPER + CTRL + ALT	Modifiers for favourites 1–9

Keyboard shortcuts

They set themselves up. No config editing, no copy-paste:

Keys	Does
super+alt+t	Departures board (press again to close)
super+alt+r	Route search (same deal)
super+ctrl+alt+1–9	Favourite route 1–9

Already using one of those keys for something else? The plugin backs off: it skips that key, keeps yours, and sends you a notification saying which one.

Want different keys? Set boardShortcut, searchShortcut or favouriteShortcut (just the modifiers, like SUPER + CTRL + ALT). Leave one empty to switch it off, or flip "Keyboard shortcuts" off in the settings to turn them all off.

The fine print: the shortcuts are live bindings, not lines in your config, so they only exist while the widget is on your bar.

The same things work from any script:

omarchy-shell vvkycodevv.sbb route "Bern" "Thun"
omarchy-shell vvkycodevv.sbb favourite 1
omarchy-shell vvkycodevv.sbb settings
omarchy-shell vvkycodevv.sbb refresh

Good to know

• Timetable data comes from transport.opendata.ch: free, no account, no API key.
• It needs curl and notify-send, both already on Omarchy.
• Every response is size-capped (1 MB for timetables, 64 KB for station search, 512 KB for the Hyprland shortcut list) and dropped unread if it goes over, so a misbehaving server can't balloon the shell.
• The only file it writes is your own shell.json, when you change a setting or save a favourite. Shortcuts go straight to Hyprland (hyprctl eval), not into your config files. No daemon, no sudo.
• Like every Omarchy plugin, it runs unsandboxed with your user permissions.

Remove

omarchy plugin remove vvkycodevv.sbb

No hard feelings. The trains will keep running without you.

Hacking on it

git clone https://github.com/vvkycodevv/omarchy-sbb.git ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/vvkycodevv.sbb
TZ=Europe/Zurich node tests/model.test.js
omarchy plugin validate ~/.config/omarchy/plugins/vvkycodevv.sbb

After editing the QML, run omarchy restart shell if a change doesn't show up.

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Not affiliated with SBB CFF FFS. Just a fan of trains that leave on time.