after dark Archives - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/tag/after-dark/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:52:02 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 23299142 Myki machines and end of day processing https://wongm.com/2023/07/myki-machines-and-end-of-day-processing/ https://wongm.com/2023/07/myki-machines-and-end-of-day-processing/#comments Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:30:00 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=21248 For most people 3am is a time when they’re tucked up warm in bed, but for me the other week I happened to be at a railway station and noticed the Myki machines were busy doing their end of day processing. So what does it look like? The first step is putting up a ‘Out […]

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]]> For most people 3am is a time when they’re tucked up warm in bed, but for me the other week I happened to be at a railway station and noticed the Myki machines were busy doing their end of day processing. So what does it look like?

Pair of Myki machines at West Footscray out of service for their end of day processing

The first step is putting up a ‘Out of Service!’ message.

Myki machine out of service to complete the end of day processing

Next up, a splash screen for defunct information technology system provider Affiliated Computer Services, and an old BIOS version – 1.2.116-08.August 2006.

ACS splash screen displayed on the screen of a rebooting Myki machine

Then the machine dropped into the Phoenix-AwardBIOS boot screen.

Phoenix-AwardBIOS splash screen displayed on the screen of a rebooting Myki machine

It shows that the ticket machine is fitted with a Hitachi HEJ421040G9AT00 40GB 2.5″ Parallel ATA hard drive as the primary boot device, and a Transcend 2.0 solid state drive as the secondary.

The BIOS boot sequence then continues.

BIOS boot sequence displayed on the screen of a rebooting Myki machine

Until the Myki software itself is started.

'Sales is starting...' displayed on the screen of a rebooting Myki machine

Loading location information, followed by “tariff” data – currently up to version 433.

'Loading tariff 433.0' displayed on the screen of a rebooting Myki machine

‘Tariff loaded’ displayed on completion.

'Tariff loaded' displayed on the screen of a rebooting Myki machine

Leaving the Myki machine back ready for use.

Myki machine back online after rebooting for the end of day processing

The whole reboot loop process took around 3 minutes, but loading the Myki software itself takes less than 30 seconds.

Footnote: the end of day for public transport

The end of day for Myki fares is 3am.

You can travel on Night Trains, Night Trams and Night Buses with myki and will be charged your usual fare. You won’t be charged a return fare if you touch on before 3am. A new day of myki fares begins at 3am.

Footnote: so how may tariff versions are there?

Back in January 2016 tariff data was only at version 179.

'Loading tariff 179.0' message displayed on a rebooting myki machine

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