Peter,
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Just a couple of things I know about relating to some of your questions:
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- I believe Hornby have implemented Bluetooth control in some of their recent TT scale locomotives, using their HM7000 decoder
- There is a project called 'EX-SensorCAM' that the DCCEX team are working on to use a camera watching a layout to provide the equivalent of block detection.? Have a look here:
- I have personally used 2 x WiFi connected lights to provide scene ambient lighting (Night > Dawn > Morning > Midday > Afternoon > Dusk > Night) for my model railway layout.? Using 2 lamps (1 in the East and the other in the West) provides a shift in the light direction as well as varying the light intensity and colour.? I control the lighting via Jython scripts in JMRI, which sends data out of JMRI to control the lights.
- One of the clubs I'm a member of has a string of W2812 style RGB LED strip for creating lighting effects controlled by an Arduino system.? This could be adjusted to be controlled from a DCC command station
- The DCCEX project has recently included code to allow control of NeoPixel lights directly from the DCCEX command station, using their EXRAIL scripting system:
- I believe some people have used AI to generate Jython code for JMRI, but (not having done this myself) I understand the AI generated code isn't perfect and needs some adjustment.? I have seen people post AI generated code in this group in the past.
So those are just some things I'm aware of that you might be interested in checking out.
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Trevor.
