Hi All

I’ve taken about 2 — 2 1/2 years off from model railroads as I was contracting and building a house for my family (and still had my day job).

I have a Digikeijs DR5000 command center. It does not have any YaMoRC upgrades (yet — on order). I had it working 2 years ago where I could use various Z21 compatible apps, WiThrottle with LNWI on the Loconet, and also 2 of the real WLANmaus wireless controllers. I had to take my multi track test track down were this was all working. I kept my “control board” all wired and just removed the track and the track feeders.

I was testing various bits so I had, in addition to the DR5000, a DR5003, as well as 2x DR5088RC modules with a bunch of blocks set up, using both the DR5000 on one DR5088RC and the booster on the other DR5088RC. It was all working, and I was also able to use some software for the iPhone that I was developing myself as well (a simple throttle as a learning device).

We’ve finally moved (though the house work is not finished, it was enough for the city to grant 6 months temporary occupancy :). ), and tonight I set up a simple single track loop. Since I had the various modules all still mounted and wired together on a single board, I set up two blocks on my loop, one on each DR5088RC.

I reset the network/WiFI module on the DR5000 to factory settings. I have the LAN port plugged into a switch on my home network. So it is set to gateway mode, and the LAN gets assigned an IP from my home network. The WiFi sets itself up as 192.168.16.254, with DHCP on using 192.168.16.100 through 192.168.16.200.

While I am normally Mac based, I bought a simple small PC and have the DR5000 config utility installed, and talking to the DR5000 over USB. I'm able to use the “DRIVE” feature in the DR5000 Utility on the PC to control a locomotive and it successfully traverses both blocks just fine so the wiring seems to be OK.

I have 2 different Z21 compatible apps on my iPhone. The actual Rocco Z21 app and one called “Z21 mobile”. I attach successfully to the DR5000 WiFi with my iPhone. And because it’s in gateway mode I can actually hit the internet through the DR5000. So that all seems to work. But I am unable to use either of the Z21 apps. Neither one will attach to the DR5000, which is in Z21/WLANMaus mode. I set the address to 192.168.16.254 but have no luck.

What am I doing wrong? As I said, last time I sat down at this a couple years ago it all worked.

My main interest and hurry now is that I got laid off from my job as an iOS engineer, and I want to use my app as a learning tool to catch up on SwiftIU/Combine. I had been using UIKit and RxSwift with it. I did a little SwiftUI/Combine for a POC of an app but need to get much better at it as a lot of the open jobs are looking for that skill and I am weak. So I figured what better way than to take my simple throttle app I was working on and convert it over. Better than just mindless tutorials :)

Anyway, if anyone has an idea of what I should look at to get my DR5000 responding to Z21 connections / commands I’d appreciate it.

Thanks
Chad

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