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JMRI - NCE Block Detection
Martin Ozolins
Hi All
I just spent a couple of days going through Robert Bucklew's Quaker Valley Lines Panel Pro tutorial (Very well done) parts one and two. After sticking to the tutorial I paused at the end of Part 2 and figured I'd repeat part 1 and part 2 on a portion of my Living Room Layout. Then I ran into a block detection issue, the block sensors seem to flash on when a train enters and again when it exits, but isn't persistent so I've been unable to mark the block occupied on the panel. My Layout is NCE SB5, via the USB Interface, My sensors are BD20's connected to an AUI01. My firmware is of the proper version (7.3.3) and my sensors are being read from the AUI by JMRI. The JMRI is Version 3.6-r24520 running on Centos 6.5 and Java 1.7 (60). The USB interface is CAB 8 The AUI interface is CAB9 (per the SB5 Documentation) The indications are that the sensors are triggering on entry and exit of a block, each train passage the correct block transitions are lighting up. Is this proper behavior for these devices? If yes how do I capture the entry and exit of a train from each block? This will necessarily need to be direction agnostic. I've attached the Panel XML files as a zip archive so virus scanners won't delete the XML and will be greatful for your advice. Thanks in advance. Martin Ozolins mdozolins@... "Fortune favors the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur |
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Re: Default text color change
Ken,
The default track colour option only changes the track colour for segments of track that haven't been assigned a block and therefore do not have their own way of setting the colour. However any new segments of track that do have a new block configured will use the default track colour, but will not change if the default track colour is subsequently changed. It is this latter method that the text follow. Regards Kevin |
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Re: Error in the Digitrax TF4 definition?
I found a decommissioned TF4 in my spare decoders and made some tests with two LEDs connected to white and yellow leads.
I confirm that contrary to what Digitrax documentation (both 02/02 and 2010 versions) says, 0 is fastest and 7 is slowest values for CV62. Actually this had been already discussed in this group ( ). Moreover I also noticed that: - CV62 controls the effect rate of BOTH white and yellow outputs. These two outputs are also in opposite phase, and I didn't find a way to change this. - CV63 seems to produce NO change on anything whatsoever. I can't read the version of this decoder (no motor load connected). I purchased it in 2009 and it was shipped with the 02/02 version of the documentation. It might be that Digitrax have made some changes to the decoder firmware since the initial documentation publication. I'll put a note in the TF4 decoder file and on the function pane to avoid having to raise the point again. Alain LM |
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Re: Default text color change
Kevin,
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Yes, I have already used that process but am wondering why the text color can't be changed all at once just like the track color. It would be much faster for sure. Can that feature be added? Thanks, Ken On 6/6/2014 6:44 PM, kw.dickerson@... [jmriusers] wrote:
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Re: Error in the Digitrax TF4 definition?
The initial decoder file created in 2005 was set as per Digitrax documentation (0=slowest / 7=fastest).
This was changed in 2008/2009 by Matt Harris. The version comments in the decoder file do not specifically explain this change. @Matt (I think that you are still around) : do you remember the reason for this change ? @Brian : do you have the possibility to make some tests with your own set up by temporary changing the values? Alain LM |
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Re: Backups - A Cautionary Tale
I use Memeo backup. This program came with an external hard drive I bought several years ago and I have been quite happy with it. It backs up designated files/folders as they are changed in real time. It is not a resource hog - I don't notice it running in the background. Restoring using Memeo will recreate the file structure, but the files themselves are not hashed so you can copy the backup directly if needed. Multiple backup versions can be kept, but this can quickly turn into a very backup set. I've used the program several times when transferring data between computers.
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Re: Backups - A Cautionary Tale - When overkill just isn't enough, use Ghost.
Martin Ozolins
Agreed it will also do backups and restores across a network.
Martin Ozolins "Fortune favors the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur From: jmriusers@... [mailto:jmriusers@...] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 12:45 To: jmriusers@... Subject: RE: [jmriusers] Backups - A Cautionary Tale - When overkill just isn't enough, use Ghost. Greg / Bill and members interested in backups Norton's Ghost was a great product and I still use it for my backups. Unfortunately, Norton has now discontinued Norton's Ghost. Company greed found out that it was a product they could not sell a "renewable subscription for an annual fee" like their anti-virus software, so they discontinued it. There are still copies available on ebay and version works for W 7 and earlier versions of Windows.Depending on the type of hard drive you use, Western Digital makes their own imaging product that works great and it is FREE. Nero is another reliable company that makes a great suite of software products and one of the programs is also an imaging product. The advantage with Ghost is that you could create a bootable disc in the event your hard drive went toast. If you backed up your system to an external drive,( I do not know of any other way) you could install the new drive and boot with the disc and do a complete restore from your last backup file. It WAS a great product. Today's method of backing up to a "cloud" is as risky as posting your social security number on a chat site. If it is not under your control, someone will find a way to hack into it just like Target this past Christmas. Good luck with the backup, Nick Kulp |
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Re: Broadway Limited Decoder Settings
Martin Ozolins
I misspoke earlier it isn't the speed table that has difficulty reading but
the volume table, and it's all the Paragon2 decoders. 147-157 are the CV's. Martin Ozolins <mailto:mdozolins@...> mdozolins@... (760)405 4812 "Fortune favors the prepared mind" - Louis Pasteur From: jmriusers@... [mailto:jmriusers@...] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 08:41 To: jmriusers@... Subject: Re: [jmriusers] Re: Broadway Limited Decoder Settings Ken & Martin; You are absolutely right. I had a senior moment ( in a hurry with fingers no doubt ) it should have read WRITE FULL PAGE , my sincere apology for any inconvenience Martin , that works everytime for me and is a quick way to get on the road . On my B units I turn horn volume to zero and turn off horn function . Cheers Bill W. ----- Original Message ----- From: 'Ken Cameron' kcameron@... [jmriusers] To: jmriusers@... Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 12:06 PM Subject: RE: [jmriusers] Re: Broadway Limited Decoder Settings Bill W, If you suspect something isn't being written while other things are changing, look at the 'CV' tab. This should show if there are CV's not written and doing a 'write changes' from that tab would be much more efficient writing those changes. The 'write all sheets' would be extremely slow for some of these decoders with lots of CV's to work through. -Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team www.jmri.org www.fingerlakeslivesteamers.org www.cnymod.com www.syracusemodelrr.org |
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Re: Issue with Lenz system after move to new computer - got it working
Is it possible that this is related to the serial chipset and you need a new cable.
On His Ride, Steve And while no trees were hurt during the production and delivery of the email, a very large number of electrons are now in revolt over being disturbed by my iPad. On Jun 6, 2014, at 0:45, "Bob Jacobsen rgj1927@... [jmriusers]" <jmriusers@...> wrote: [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Re: DecoderPro3 Roster Import Function not working?
Sure enough it's fixed in test. Works perfectly now. :)
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On Friday, June 6, 2014 4:52 PM, "joecosta2580@... [jmriusers]" <jmriusers@...> wrote:
? Did an export complete from one machine running 3.6 r24520 (it very nicely asked me what destination --- in my case a USB drive and wrote to the USB drive). I go to a second machine running 3.6 r24520 and TRY to do an import from the menu and it does NOTHING. No prompt for location, no message, nothing. In all other respects the second machine works perfectly. So what am I doing wrong? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Re: initial state of routes is shown as Unknown?
Thanks Kevin! ?I will try the latest Jenkins build next week.?
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Regards, Robin <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "kw.dickerson@... [jmriusers]" <jmriusers@...> </div><div>Date:06/06/2014 3:40 AM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: jmriusers@... </div><div>Subject: [jmriusers] Re: initial state of routes is shown as Unknown? </div><div>
</div>Hi Robin, The routes code never use to go through checking the turnout states when loaded, I have now updated that so that it does, this will be in the next release so give it a try. Regards Kevin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Re: initial state of routes is shown as Unknown?
Marshall,
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Thanks. ? I don't want the route state to change at startup, ?but yes I could set the sensor states based on the turnout positions. ?This would require duplicating the route logic in the script. ? However it looks like Kevin has fixed the route state initialization, ?so the issue is resolved.? Regards,? Robin <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Marshall readingrr2103@... [jmriusers]" <jmriusers@...> </div><div>Date:06/06/2014 1:25 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: jmriusers@... </div><div>Subject: Re: [jmriusers] initial state of routes is shown as Unknown? </div><div>
</div> From: mailto:jmriusers@... Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 4:31 PM To: jmriusers@... Subject: [jmriusers] initial state of routes is shown as Unknown? Robin, At the club on the staging yard panel, I use sensors to trigger a route. The route would be entering or exiting each track in the yard. So clicking on track 4 enter sensor, for example, triggers a route which throws switch for track 4, closes all other switches and sets all their sensors to INACTIVE. To initialize the panel when loaded, I use the following script. Maybe it will work for you. __________________________________________________________ (don’t put this line in the script file) # Script to set all turnouts on a panel to the "CLOSED" state. # It uses the entries in the Turnout Table created by Panel Pro # The wait time is currently set to 0.5 seconds. class setStartup(jmri.jmrit.automat.AbstractAutomaton) : def init(self): return def handle(self): sensorList = ["ISSTG4IN","ISSTG1OUT","ISWI"] for sensorName in sensorList: sensors.provideSensor(sensorName).setState(ACTIVE) return False # all done, don't repeat again setStartup().start() # create one of these, and start it running __________________________________________________________ (don’t put this line in the script file) If you want the initial state to “inactive” substitute INACTIVE (case matters) sensorList is a list of the sensors you want to set to a state. Marshall Phoenix Hi. I have a series of Routes, and each one has its own Internal Sensor assigned to “Enter Sensor that Activates when Route Turnouts are correctly aligned”. Each route contains a single Loconet turnout, and the turnout table shows that each Turnout has a known state – either open or closed. However the Sensor associated with each Route is in state Unknown. If I Set a Route then the associated Sensor will change to Active. If I manually set the turnout in a Route, as I watch the Sensor table the associated Route sensor will change from Unknown to Inactive very briefly and then show Active. Perhaps there is a timing issue at start up between evaluation of the Route Sensors and completion of the Loconet interrogation sequence that determines the state of the turnouts, or perhaps it is something else. If any case, is there a workaround script that I could run that would cause the state of the Route Sensors to properly initialize? Thanks. Robin Robin Becker San Diego, CA <> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Re: Backups - A Cautionary Tale - When overkill just isn't enough, use Ghost.
Hi
Another free option is redobackup, I have used this to backup windows xp and 7 both 32 & 64 bit versions, and linux. Very easy to use, just download the image, burn to cd, boot from the cd and click on the backup button. Paul On 6 June 2014 12:16, 'Greg Komar' gkomar@... [jmriusers] < jmriusers@...> wrote:
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Re: Default text color change
Hi Ken,
The default text colour works for new text items added to the layout editor rather than converting existing items. To change existing items, right click on the text and either go to "Properties" and you can change the text properties for there. Or if you right click on the text you can select "Edit Font" followed by "Font Color" Regards Kevin |
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Re: DecoderPro3 Roster Import Function not working?
On Jun 6, 2014, at 12:27 PM, joecosta2580@... [jmriusers] <jmriusers@...> wrote:
Did an export complete from one machine running 3.6 r24520 (it very nicely asked me what destination --- in my case a USB drive and wrote to the USB drive).It looks like there's a fix for this in JMRI 3.7.2 (which means also in the current test release): Bob -- Bob Jacobsen rgj1927@... |
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Re: initial state of routes is shown as Unknown?
From: mailto:jmriusers@...
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 4:31 PM To: jmriusers@... Subject: [jmriusers] initial state of routes is shown as Unknown? Robin, At the club on the staging yard panel, I use sensors to trigger a route. The route would be entering or exiting each track in the yard. So clicking on track 4 enter sensor, for example, triggers a route which throws switch for track 4, closes all other switches and sets all their sensors to INACTIVE. To initialize the panel when loaded, I use the following script. Maybe it will work for you. _________________________________________________________________ (don’t put this line in the script file) # Script to set all turnouts on a panel to the "CLOSED" state. # It uses the entries in the Turnout Table created by Panel Pro # The wait time is currently set to 0.5 seconds. class setStartup(jmri.jmrit.automat.AbstractAutomaton) : def init(self): return def handle(self): sensorList = ["ISSTG4IN","ISSTG1OUT","ISWI"] for sensorName in sensorList: sensors.provideSensor(sensorName).setState(ACTIVE) return False # all done, don't repeat again setStartup().start() # create one of these, and start it running _________________________________________________________________ (don’t put this line in the script file) If you want the initial state to “inactive” substitute INACTIVE (case matters) sensorList is a list of the sensors you want to set to a state. Marshall Phoenix Hi. I have a series of Routes, and each one has its own Internal Sensor assigned to “Enter Sensor that Activates when Route Turnouts are correctly aligned”. Each route contains a single Loconet turnout, and the turnout table shows that each Turnout has a known state – either open or closed. However the Sensor associated with each Route is in state Unknown. If I Set a Route then the associated Sensor will change to Active. If I manually set the turnout in a Route, as I watch the Sensor table the associated Route sensor will change from Unknown to Inactive very briefly and then show Active. Perhaps there is a timing issue at start up between evaluation of the Route Sensors and completion of the Loconet interrogation sequence that determines the state of the turnouts, or perhaps it is something else. If any case, is there a workaround script that I could run that would cause the state of the Route Sensors to properly initialize? Thanks. Robin Robin Becker San Diego, CA <> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Re: Backups - A Cautionary Tale - When overkill just isn't enough, use Ghost.
Nick and All,
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Use Acronis, it does the same thing, including the Boot Option from a CD/DVD/USB Stick and you can back up to multiple places, including the "cloud" with it if you want. It's cheap, and it has versions for Mac and Linux, as well as Windows, at different pricing levels of course. James ----- Original Message -----
From: "cornwall9@... [jmriusers]" <jmriusers@...> To: jmriusers@... Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 3:45:00 PM Subject: RE: [jmriusers] Backups - A Cautionary Tale - When overkill just isn't enough, use Ghost. Greg / Bill and members interested in backups Norton's Ghost was a great product and I still use it for my backups. Unfortunately, Norton has now discontinued Norton's Ghost. Company greed found out that it was a product they could not sell a "renewable subscription for an annual fee" like their anti-virus software, so they discontinued it. There are still copies available on ebay and version works for W 7 and earlier versions of Windows.Depending on the type of hard drive you use, Western Digital makes their own imaging product that works great and it is FREE. Nero is another reliable company that makes a great suite of software products and one of the programs is also an imaging product. The advantage with Ghost is that you could create a bootable disc in the event your hard drive went toast. If you backed up your system to an external drive,( I do not know of any other way) you could install the new drive and boot with the disc and do a complete restore from your last backup file. It WAS a great product. Today's method of backing up to a "cloud" is as risky as posting your social security number on a chat site. If it is not under your control, someone will find a way to hack into it just like Target this past Christmas. Good luck with the backup, Nick Kulp ------------------------------------ Posted by: cornwall9@... ------------------------------------ Yahoo Groups Links |
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Re: Backups - A Cautionary Tale - When overkill just isn't enough, use Ghost.
Greg / Bill and members interested in backups
Norton's Ghost was a great product and I still use it for my backups. Unfortunately, Norton has now discontinued Norton's Ghost. Company greed found out that it was a product they could not sell a "renewable subscription for an annual fee" like their anti-virus software, so they discontinued it. There are still copies available on ebay and version works for W 7 and earlier versions of Windows.Depending on the type of hard drive you use, Western Digital makes their own imaging product that works great and it is FREE. Nero is another reliable company that makes a great suite of software products and one of the programs is also an imaging product. The advantage with Ghost is that you could create a bootable disc in the event your hard drive went toast. If you backed up your system to an external drive,( I do not know of any other way) you could install the new drive and boot with the disc and do a complete restore from your last backup file. It WAS a great product. Today's method of backing up to a "cloud" is as risky as posting your social security number on a chat site. If it is not under your control, someone will find a way to hack into it just like Target this past Christmas. Good luck with the backup, Nick Kulp |
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DecoderPro3 Roster Import Function not working?
Did an export complete from one machine running 3.6 r24520 (it very nicely asked me what destination --- in my case a USB drive and wrote to the USB drive).
I go to a second machine running 3.6 r24520 and TRY to do an import from the menu and it does NOTHING. No prompt for location, no message, nothing. In all other respects the second machine works perfectly. So what am I doing wrong? |
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Re: Broadway Limited Decoder Settings
Bill Weibel
Ken & Martin;
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You are absolutely right. I had a senior moment ( in a hurry with fingers no doubt ) it should have read WRITE FULL PAGE , my sincere apology for any inconvenience Martin , that works everytime for me and is a quick way to get on the road . On my B units I turn horn volume to zero and turn off horn function . Cheers Bill W. ----- Original Message -----
From: 'Ken Cameron' kcameron@... [jmriusers] To: jmriusers@... Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 12:06 PM Subject: RE: [jmriusers] Re: Broadway Limited Decoder Settings Bill W, If you suspect something isn't being written while other things are changing, look at the 'CV' tab. This should show if there are CV's not written and doing a 'write changes' from that tab would be much more efficient writing those changes. The 'write all sheets' would be extremely slow for some of these decoders with lots of CV's to work through. -Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team www.jmri.org www.fingerlakeslivesteamers.org www.cnymod.com www.syracusemodelrr.org |
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