I now reside in Germany and my current employer pays 50% of the Deutschland-Job-Ticket. There is no physical card but travel information you download to an android wallet, but apparently google wallet is the only available option. See the picture:
Google is a company I don’t trust with my data, neither do I expect your regular public transportation authority employee to care about his privacy (he looked at me as I was asking if 2 + 2 equal 4). I am not aware of non google based wallets where I can download the travel information.
I tried some f-droid and droidify options but it turns out they’re pure crap.
The site: https://abo.ride-ticketing.de/app/ I log in with my username and password, get my travel information and on the bottom the picture I uploaded.
Any workarounds?
This being Germany, shouldn’t there be an alternative to those who refuse google? Don’t I have that right as a consumer?
Another question: I screenshot my logged in session on the link I provided where you see my qr code and my billing data. The public transportation employee told me that’s not allowed (wtf?). Can anyone here provide a rationale?
https://f-droid.org/packages/nz.eloque.foss_wallet
Only one that I know of
I use PassAndroid (https://f-droid.org/packages/org.ligi.passandroid)
but it looks unmaintained now
Any workarounds?
When getting the Deutschlandticket from HVV for example, you can opt for a physical card, not needing any app at all. Very convenient.
I had a deal with my last employer: instead of them handling everything and giving me a code for the app, I ordered the ticket directly from HVV and they payed me the part of it that otherwise would be payed by them directly.
Maybe your local public transport provider has a physical card, too, and this could be a valid option then?
The public transportation employee told me that’s not allowed (wtf?). Can anyone here provide a rationale?
There could be an additional value being calculated in when using the app-based ticket, maybe based on time. A screenshot would be static and producing either invalid or wrong results.
If you have a .pkpass file, you could try “kde itinerary”
Is there a reason not to get it via the db app?
DB Navigator collects and shares so much private data that it is being sued by privacy activist groups right now
I use Passandroid but is quite old https://f-droid.org/packages/org.ligi.passandroid
I used to use this app and was quite happy with it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.attidomobile.passwallet
Back then, I was able to download a file (also from ride-ticketing.de) I could then open in any wallet app. Try to see if that’s still an option.
I think the “no screenshots” rule is so that you don’t share your ticket with others via screenshot. In my experience it’s not strictly enforced though - if they can see that the ticket is valid and is yours, they’ll usually allow it.
I am not sure if it can handle Google Wallet, but physical cards can easily be scanned and used with https://github.com/Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner