The Empire Builder doesn't have the ability to read from decoders.
There's nothing a PC can do about that, unfortunately. DecoderPro
should still be able to program them, and can keep records of the
values you've stored in its roster. That'll help you keep track of
what options you've set, and make it easier to make small changes.
Bob,
When using an EB (I have a DCS100 not a BD150) you would have the problem of
not knowing the initial decoder settings, so does DecoderPro set all the
CV's to a particular value (0 ?) when you open the Programmer window?
After the user has made all their changed from this default above, does
clicking the "Write All" button write all CVs even if they were not changed?
If it does then you could be _fairly_ sure that DecoderPro's and the
decoder's state are in sync.
I have noted a few times people having problems programming decoders and
want to revert their decoder back to "factory defaults" to start again, but
I think that only a few recent decoders have a CV for this. Maybe a "factory
default" attribute could be added to DecoderPro's decoder config files, so
that resetting to factory defaults could be possible and configurable.
This might also be handy for people to create a baseline config that they
use to start from, although I note that you can do this with the copy/rename
functions talked about and maybe added recently.
Alex
