I forgot to mention that there were some serious speed issues with reading ESU CVs on the DCS240 when it first came out.
My memory is that it was finally resolved and may have involved a DCS firmware update.
Someone else may be able to recall the details...
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Dave in Australia
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On 9 Dec 2018, at 1:09 PM, Dave Heap <dgheap@...> wrote:
If you are reading a LokSound V4 or Select decoder in Paged Mode, it will take 25-30 minutes. It should be about half that in Direct Mode.
These decoders have around 1,000 CVs and there are physical limitations on the speed of the NMRA CV access protocol, the speed of the decoder and the command station. We're not talking about anything like a 1.5Mbps connection, something more like several CVs per second.
Read All Sheets with some decoders (ESU included) can cause random read errors, due to a known but as yet unfixed issue in JMRI. Read Full Sheet on the CVs pane is a lot better as it avoids this problem. When done, sort by Status descending and keep hitting Read Changes on Sheet until no red entries remain.
