Is there a support community for DCC4PC somewhere?
The usual problem for esoteric hardware like this is that the JMRI support was originally coded by just one person who had detailed knowledge of the hardware, but then that person moves on and nobody knows enough about how the hardware works to pick up support.
The code, including the history of all the changes, is available here:
Somebody who has hardware to test the problem could use `git bisect` to figure out exactly which change to the software caused the problem:
Bob
On Jul 28, 2019, at 3:48 AM, ardmay via Groups.Io <ardmay@...> wrote:
Is anyone aware that support for the DCC4PC railcom reader doesn't work anymore in jmri! After testing some passed releases it seems to work all but slow refreshing up to release 4.12. Later releases don't work and looking at the dcc4pc monitor within jmri it seems that jmri can't read the input file from the hardware. I've tried reporting this but to no avail. The suggestion that jmri supports dcc4pc railcom reader hardware is misleading and maybe the option to select this hardware in the preferences connections pane should be taken away to protect people from investing in hardware that is no longer supported by jmri.
Michael Smith
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Bob Jacobsen
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Bob Jacobsen