John,
On Sep 12, 2019, at 4:46 AM, John Pearson <pearsonjohn99@...> wrote:
Lenz suggest LZV200 uses version 3.8 software.
Thank you for suggesting a JMRI upgrade to include the new Lenz unit, your tireless support is much appreciated
It is true that the LZV200 runs on software version 3.8, but that is not what we are looking at to determine the command station type.
There is an instruction we send to ask the command station what hardware type it is. It is the response to this reply that generates the displayed value.
We do not look at the software version to determine this because there may very well be other command station¡¯s using the same software version. I don¡¯t know if Lenz will do this now, but in the past, Lenz has offered just a software update for those who didn¡¯t want to buy a new command station and get the benefits of the new software.
The reality is it doesn¡¯t matter what we display for the hardware type. JMRI only uses that value internally to enable features appropriate to the command station, and the base feature set is the same for a version 3.6 LZ100/LZV100 and the version 3.8 LZV200.
That may change as Lenz provides more information about built in features such as RailCom.
Paul
On 10 Sep 2019, at 04:47, Paul Bender <paul.bender@...> wrote:
Sent from my iPad
On Sep 5, 2019, at 12:41 PM, Edward Merrin <edmerrin@...> wrote:
I've recently set up release version 4.16.0 on my MacBook Pro OSX 10.14.6 to connect with a newly acquired Lenz LZV200 command station. Everything works fine, but when I check the system status it gives me the correct version (3.8, as opposed to the 3.6 associated with the older command station) but gives the name of the command station as the previous LZV100. Probably a simple correction, right?
About all I can do is add LZV200 to the list ( which currently includes the LZ100 and LZV100 ). The LZV200 is reporting the same hardware type as the older models.
Paul
