I am making some great progress with the Entry Exit functionality. I have a hardware panel with buttons and indications and am interfacing that to the Entry Exit functionality. I have identified a couple of challenges which I can probably solve with LogixNG but, before I go down that road I want to make sure I am not missing some functionality which already exists.
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Challenge 1..... I can press an Entrance button on the hardware panel and that fires a sensor which JMRI sees as the beginning of a route setting sequence, so the icon representing that sensor in Layout Editor starts to flash. When a valid Exit button is pressed, the icon in Layout Editor changes to steady. That is good, and my challenge now is to get the light inside my hardware button doing the same thing. It is configured in JMRI as a light (actually two lights, one flashing and one steady). The gap is how to persuade that hardware light to illuminate in the same way as the icons in Layout Editor.
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Challenge 2..... When a route is set, Layout Editor shows white lights along the route. I have lights on the hardware panel configured as lights in JMRI. Each "Block" is split into several separate groups of white lights, so that I can illuminate only those that are on the actual route, exactly as JMRI does in Layout Editor. The gap is how to get JMRI (Entry Exit) to send the appropriate on events to the separate segments in the block.
