On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 18:07, Michael Shore <t.mike.shore@...> wrote:
I placed a problem I have with programming a ROCO locomotive on decoder pro. The decoder is a Zimo decoder, my problem is on programming it won¡¯t accept a four digit address and reverts always to 03 they basic address.
Is this because of the Zimo, not being able to correspond with decoder pro.
I can program the locomotive on my Digitrax programming track.
? ? ? ?Any suggestions,
? ? ? ? ? ? ?Mike Shore (novice with software)
> On Aug 26, 2019, at 12:52 PM, Bob Jacobsen <rgj1927@...> wrote:
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> CAN is an industry standard, in the same sense that a (hardwired) telephone is:? All telephones know how to exchange audio and all CAN nodes know how to exchange frames.
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> But the message sent over CAN are not standardized, just like the use of telephone audio can be done with different languages, different syntaxes, etc.
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> Zimo sends different messages than MERG¡¯s CBUS protocol, etc.
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> Bob
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>> On Aug 26, 2019, at 7:41 AM, halasz <halasz.gabor@...> wrote:
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>> I agree with the principle that both hardware and software be used for what they have been made for. The thing is that one often buys hardware before all the future uses are known and is bound by it. Software is more flexible, after all. Nevertheless, I am going to see how I could put in some optical sensors.
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>> I had the impression that CAN was an industry standard. Roco even confirmed this impression when I asked them, in connection with my present problem, for a documentation on CAN messages and they were referring to Zimo's publication
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>> Now I am surprised to learn, if I understand your words correctly, that this is not the case and different manufacturers produce different messages.
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>> Gabor
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