Greetings and Happy Holidays to all! I want to control the turnouts/ routes in various yards on the layout with touch screen monitors. So far I have set up several panels in layout editor and have tested them. All good so far. I How envision using a small touch screen monitor at each end of double end yards to align the routes in and out of each of the yard tracks. I may need up to 12 such monitors. Will JMRI support this? All of the panels are open on my computer now, but how do I get the appropriate panel to appear on each of the monitors at the various yard locations? Since I am not a computer type person I would appreciate getting pointed in the right direction.Thanks.

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John

Seasons greetings to all

Where's the collection plate located?

John Stewart
Birmingham

HP, crew:

If HP is seeing a nominal 5V on the output pins no matter what has been sent to it it's not seeing commands to turn on the output ie pull to ground.

But wait... a couple more basic questions on? the output boards just to? little more sure how we need to check.

HP, these boards were bought built, as kits or total DIY? Where they built as a standard on is pill to ground configuration and not to source current? Different transistors and jumper wire position. Standard is 2n4401 and jumper at J1. Alternative is 2n4403 and J2 to source current.

Then there is the mother board, if you use source cards there is an option for different voltage for the current source but you still need it connected to 5V for the output transistors to work when sinking. I doubt that it's the problem but check the wiring around the Alternate J2 jumper and wiring. (pg 17-3 and 4 in my user 3.0 manual).

Since we have two cards and I assume you've swapped the two cards changing their addresses we don't likely have? component failure.

More later if needed... after the coding check and verifying how the output is set.

Jim Albanowski

Since
*) Polling works
*) Sensors work
*) The SM2 works
*) You say the ground are good
*) You’ve checked the output voltage
*) And the init message was "Init ua=0 type=X DL=0 NS=1 CT: 16”, which is wrong for your hardware.

I recommend we stop talking about electrical issues. Everything is consistent with the C/MRI Node configuration in JMRI not being set right.

To check / fix this:

A) Open JMRI
B) Open Preferences
C) On the Connection pane of the Preferences, click Configure Nodes

You should see one line with 0 under address, SUSIC under type, 2 under IN cards, 1 under OUT codes, 64 under IN Bits and 32 under OUT bits.

Do you see all of those values?

Next, click the “Select” 2nd from right, and then choose Edit. A new window should open. What do you see in the table in the middle of that? There should be three entries under Card Address and Card Type. What do those say? Do they agree with the switch settings on your cards (_not_ on their SUSIC itself)?

Bob
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I need a diagram of that board.

Tim,

One more point.

Engine sounds (start-sound, shutdown-sound and notch-sounds) _must_ have the same audio format. The format should be either 8-bit-mono or 16-bit-mono, but not a mixture.

Klaus

one input wire ...
turnouts operate from sm2's if you force voltage change from 5 volt to 0 volt ... and vice versa ...

but output board voltage is 4.98 volts at connected bits and doesn't change ...I tried with just output board inserted in node ..can observe yellow led lights when you operate the turnout on screen or in the table ... no change at output board ... stays at 4.98 volts ..

I have misplaced my SM2 board diagrams. How many input wires to the board does the SM2 require. One for coil A output and one for coil B output or just one wire that when on throws to coil A and when off throws to coil B.

Jim

sorry ... I just had temporary power connected to the rs232/485 board ... wire had come loose ...

so now we're back to heart beat on susic ... red & yellow led's nearly solid on ...and red & yellow led's nearly solid on rs232/485 board as well ...

sensors work fine as before ...

turnout icons switch on screen when clicked on the screen or clicked on status in table ...but don't operate the turnout physically ..

some (two out of four connected) turnouts change position when layout is powered up (only if in closed (normal) position) ...

cmri monitor shows only this:

Poll ua=0
Receive ua=0 IB=FF FF FF FF 0 0 80 0

.... repeats over and over ....

(the 80 in the string changes depending on which block is occupied)

previous posts indicated? maybe wrong configuration on susic ...is there a way to capture the initialization message at startup ... now that I'm hooked back up ...to double check configuration??

CMRI Manager shows Poll Sequence, Enabled - Checked, Node - 0, Type - SUSIC, Status - Polling

CMRI Metrics shows Error Metrics 0 in all cases ...Data Metrics shows Poll/Response Time about 30 ms & Init Messages as 1 ..

Everything seems to show good configuration ... ???

it just seems to me that JMRI isn't sending change in status to output board ... I can operate turnouts thru the sm2's by grounding wire from output board (changing input to sm2's)

I have turnouts set to direct feedback mode ..isn't that correct?? also ... when setting up output bits I selected single bit for the SM2's ... there was also a question about pulsed or steady state ... which should it be for solenoid turnouts operated from the sm2's ? and how do you edit that afterward's ?

thanks for the input & for answering during the holidays .. hope everyone had a Merry Christmas !!

It sounds like you have only a single connection to your layout. In that case, there are ways to do it where one program connects to the other to share that connection, but there’s a simpler way:

*) Start PanelPro

*) Select the “Roster” item in the “Roster” menu. That’s the same DecoderPro screen.

Bob

On Dec 26, 2018, at 7:58 PM, dcesharkman via Groups.Io <dcesharkman@...> wrote:

It seems they fight for the same connection, is there a way to to have them both up at the same time?

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It seems they fight for the same connection, is there a way to to have them both up at the same time?

Thanks!

David

For the record, what I found was two issues, together it gave a blank for
the roster list. But I could see the roster.xml file was sizeable. Then the
console showed issues with multiple Jackson jar files, three sets total, I
removed the older ones. Last I was still getting the issue of blank for the
roster list. I vaguely recalled a case where the roster groups were mixed
up. I created a new roster group. All entries appeared and I deleted the one
I created. Result was normal displaying roster list. Not sure what was
hiding them. It was like a roster group was selected that displayed nothing.

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The log indicates that most likely your existing roster entries were created with a different version of the decoder definition file (hence all the "WARN - Did not find locofile variable..." messages.

This can occur if:
1) A variable is renamed (happens not infrequently).
2) A variable is removed.

Since JMRI has no way of knowing which has occurred nor what CVs or parts thereof were relevant to removed CVs, the underlying CVs and values are preserved.

Obviously both have happened in your case. The simplest solution is to abandon the old roster entry and create a new one, using Read Type from decoder.**

There is another thing you should check. Go to the Help->Locations menu item and click on "Open User Files Location" (in your case it appears to be "\\WDMycloud1\David\JMRI\"). Look for a folder called "decoders" and a file called "decoderIndex.xml". This indicates the likely presence of manually imported decoder definitions, possibly obsolete. Remove or rename the "decoders" folder and delete "decoderIndex.xml".

** This means that you are going to have to reread the decoders into the new roster entries. If this sounds like too much trouble, there is a messy (and possibly incomplete) workaround:
- Use File->Export->CSV file to create a ".csv" file for each roster entry.
- Manually edit each ".csv" file (text editor or Excel, saving as CSV) to remove the offending high CVs.
- Use File->Import->CSV file to load the modified ".csv" file into the new roster entry.
- Check the CVs sheet for any unmodified (not orange) CVs. If so, these are new and will have to be read manually!
- You may still have some extra (unreadable) CVs and will have to repeat the process, removing them as well.
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Dave in Australia

Thanks to everyone that helped resolve my issue. A special thanks to Ken Cameron. He said my issue was a little unusual and called me and fixed the issue. It was definitely above my pay grade. Happy New Year to all.?

Thanks for the answer, Dave.? I appreciate your time.

To all

I would agree with all the comments. An amazing program along with great support from the team and all users. Using this program has provided hours of enjoyment in operating my model railway.

Peter

I upgraded to version 4.14 and still seeing the errors trying to write to the CV400+ variables

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