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Locked Re: restoring sensors and blocks

 

It's implied from the locobuffer that you're using a digitrax command station. If thats wrong, or things are more complicated, please list that info, and the version of JMRI you're using.

The easiest way to populate the sensors table, would be to load the newest/most accurate panel, open up the loconet monitor, and trigger sensors , then give them 'human names' in the sensors panel.

The reason for opening the loconet monitor is to give you an easy to view history of what just changed, instead of figuring out what just got added to the tables.

The sensors should come up as LS####? eg LS1 - LS2044 (I think the top sensors are reserved, and think I'm remembering the range).

If you've lost turnouts, can do the same thing with them, which will be LT####

note that on loconet, you can set sensors to be type 'turnout feedback'. They won't show up in the sensors table, if so, but in the loconet monitor messages reporting the actual position of the turnout (you'll see something like "LT1 set to THROWN. LT1 reports THROWN' My verbage is a bit off, but you'll see twice the messages than you would without the turnout feedback.

Once you have the sensors and turnouts in your tables, on the table page save data and panels (under file). if you don't do this, all the sensors and turnouts previously found will be lost.

You can then go in and link sensors and turnouts to where they should be on your panel(s).


On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 2:26 PM Tom Cain <atsf93@...> wrote:
I came to the group a couple months ago with a problem of slow response on my JMRI Panel.? I had updated my operating system (mac) and things had slowed down.? Someone had suggested that my USB serial cable might have been the problem.? I pushed back on that because it had worked so well for years.? Well, I purchased a new one from RR-CirKits and the slowness has gone.? My apologies for poo pooing the idea that I needed a new serial cable.? So just as I had done a software update, it seemed I also needed a hardware update. ?

Now my next problem is getting some other issues resolved following a lightning strike of a tree next to the house.? I had to replace the remote control for our ceiling fan in the bedroom close to the tree along with the cable box for the TV in that room.? On the layout, I had to replace 2 NCE SwitchIts and 2 bicolor LED¡¯s.? How crazy is that, 2 LED¡¯s not in similar places on the layout being effected by the crazy voltage of lightning.? I guess I¡¯m lucky it wasn¡¯t worse, unless of course I still find some crucial issues.? So far all the locomotives I¡¯ve been using seem to work well.

Anyway, here is my newest deal.? I took my computer to the apple store to do a diagnostic and clean up unused files to speed up its processing.? Somewhere in there I lost the sensors and blocks tables in my panel.? I did go and find an older version of my panel where the sensors and blocks were present.? But in that older version of the panel, the occupancy still did not work so I¡¯m still trouble shooting the detection hardware.? I actually think it would be easier to rebuild the sensor table and blocks on my newest panel rather than do all the updates for an older panel.? But when I went to rebuild the sensor table the way to enter the sensors has changed from when I created them in 2014.? I can¡¯t seem to figure out the new system.? I went to the ¡°help" for that window but could not find the specific information that addresses how to do this for the Team Digital SIC24AD that translates my detectors to the panel.? The Team Digital sensors show occupancy on the specific occupancy detector with the LED on their board but not back on the panel.? The Locobuffer USB activity monitor is blank.? Oh, I also sent my LocoBuffer USB to RR-CirKits for evaluation following the lightning strike and it was repaired and returned so it is good. ?

Is there another place in the JMRI instructions for building the Sensor table with the Team Digital components?

Thomas Cain
Indianapolis, IN
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