Al,
On 6 Sep 2019, at 8:49 AM, Al <babinskya@...> wrote:
Is there a way to have the service and ops programmer active in Decoder Pro?
I'm using a SPROG II version 3 with a Windows 10 laptop for programming and the JMRI version 14.7.3 which is the test version I believe. On the programming screen the service mode is green and the ops mode is red. At the club the Windows 10 tablet with the SPROG shows both programming modes in green. I can't recall what the JMRI version is but it is older then mine.
The SPROG hardware design is such that it has two possible modes of operation:
1) A power-limited Programmer Mode that does Service Mode and also allows 1 loco to be test-run.
2) A full-power Command Station Mode that allows many locos to run and also Ops Mode programming.
The two are selected between at startup time (as configured in Prefernces->Connections) and both can't be active at the same time. Older JMRI versions incorrectly showed both active at the same time.
In order to use both modes, you need to create two Config Profiles in JMRI (set up to share the same User Files), one for each mode, and enable the checkbox to show the choice at startup. (Note that this is not the same as defining multiple connections in one single JMRI profile - you can't have two connections to the same device simultaneously, nor the same device running in two different modes simultaneously.)
You may need to ask for help on setting up multiple profiles.
Dave in Australia
