I agree, higher level protocols in a real network are (hopefully) the future of layout control. And I think the communication to the network should come directly from the layout control bus. That¡¯s why I did the LocoNet to MQTT gateway () and programs like JMRI should get the information from there, not from a slow point to point interface. In my opinion this is also the correct layer for multi system integration. Why develop just another hardware and network layer like OpenLCB (with all the difficulties to get manufacturers to accept and support it) ?when integration simply can be done on the presentation and application layer level?
