First off I want to thank Inobu and Dave for their input, time, and dialog on this subject. ?I had no idea it would create this type of interaction. ?While I'm pretty good with computers and can follow some of the thread suggestions, I am clearly a novice with JMRI. ?I came across it when I started getting back into model railroading a few years ago. ?My prior experience was decades ago and non-DCC. ?I had JMRI running no problem, with the exact same NCE hardware on a Lenovo laptop years ago. ?The computer crashed and I never got JMRI to run on another laptop. ?Always had problems with the SILabs driver and COM port conflicts on several laptops and even a desktop running Win 7, Win 8, or Win 10. ?So, I tried it on an old Apple, couldn't get it working. ?Purchased a RPi4 and thought with Steve's image it would be trivial and basically plug and play. ?I was about to return the Pi4 but posted this in hopes of getting it running without any trouble. ?Clearly, that's been far from the case.
Now that I've started this, I'd like to try and contribute to a) learn what I'm doing wrong, and b) hopefully help others who are as frustrated as I am.
To that effect, I'll offer up some data based on what I tried.
1) Inobu, I tried your timing about what to start, when to plug in and it didn't work for me
2) Dave, thanks for pointing out I may have an inferior PCP and that may be the root cause. ?I'll contact NCE for a replacement since I don't trust myself soldering resistors. ?My PowerCab is 1.65
3) I don't have a ttyUSB0 choice in my preferences. ?Only ttyAMA0 and ttyS0. ?So, that might be an issue itself
4) I did observe something upon startup of JMRI and that is the message bar at the bottom of the screen was green for about 5 seconds and said there was a connection, then it turned red. ?
5) I'll attach a screenshot and log file when able.
Thanks again to everyone involved in this.
-Larry
