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Hi Peter,

Thanks...that was the problem.? Just a new user to Decoder Pro, so I'm still in the learning curve stage.? ?I can read my loco now, throttle still will not work as it will not allow me to activate power.

How do you change the Eprompt number in JMRI? It keeps telling me I have the wrong EPrompt.

They’re the high and low parts of the SE8c Head address.

Bob

On Aug 12, 2018, at 5:05 PM, Jeff Scarbrough <fishplate@...> wrote:

Thanks, Bob. Looks like they can be safely ignored. Out of curiosity, is there any rhyme/reason why they get assigned high or low?

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Bob Jacobsen
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For a starting point, if you want to try the power of a script before jumping full in, take a look at either of the RocoCrane scripts written by Nelson Allison and Bob in 2009 that are provided in the JMRI/jython part of the installed files.

Look for either RocoCrane46800.py or RocoCrane46902.py but I don't know that there would be any difference in this case.

When you run one of these, a window appears on your screen, and allows you to enter a DCC Loco Address and then click on the Start button. Once that has been accepted, the buttons intended for the crane motion would in part allow you to imitate what you need for your switch actions, but not very well.

With the JMRI NCE: Command Monitor window open, preferably with the Show Raw Data and Show Timestamp boxes checked, watch what happens when you click each of "Rotate Left," "Rotate Right," etc. buttons slowly.

If that provides some small measure of control success, then you might investigate digging further into what a script can do for you. If not, then we need to do more investigation.

From my perspective, what you have done is novel, but as yet unexplored.

Two things to be aware of:

1. Each DCC Loco Decoder used this way will count as a running locomotive on your NCE or any other Command Station.

2. If you want to keep these turnouts unavailable for accidentally being accessed with a throttle, give the DCC Loco Decoders addresses in the range from 10000 to 10239 that no throttle can access.

Neither of those will be important for the short term.

Cliff in Baja SoCal

I've just created ?PR #5639: Change "Add Block" sequential names algorithm

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Did you open your preferences and check the defaults tab? Make sure nothing is set to internal.

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I'm using 4.12 not 4.10? any other suggestions?

Don,

I suspect that you tried saving it to the install location which the OS may have blocked.

I would save the script in your user files location. Select "Help >> Locations" and click on the "Open User Files Location" button. This will open the file manager at that location. Move the downloaded file to this location.

Select "Preferences >> File Locations". Set the "Jython Script Location" to match the "User Files Location". Save and re-start.

Ideally, edit the script with a program editor. Assuming that you running Windows, do not use NotePad or Word. WordPad is OK, but NotePad++ is highly recommended.

When you want to run the script, use "Panels >> Run Script". During testing you will also want to open "Panels >> Thread Monitor", "Panels >> Script Output" and "NCE >> Command Monitor”. You may want to add these to the "Preferences >> Start Up" actions.

If you need to adjust the script, use the thread monitor to kill the existing threads before running the script again. The thread names start with “TF4".


Dave Sand

Ok,
That probably eliminates one explanation.

Can you send a screenshot of your Engine Driver throttle page (with the consit selected) to my email address akersp62@...

Thanks
Peter
(Brisbane Australia)?

Dave,

Had a little time today and played with it. Cut and pasted your script into Panel Pro's script entry.

Had to change the Long Address to true - for some reason, I haven't had any luck using short addresses with the TF-4's.

Set teh addresses to 1111 and 1112 - two of the addresses I have and tried to save the resulting script without any luck. I used the store and named it DonTest, and it seemed to save. shut everything down and restarted. From the entry, clicked on Load and can't find it. After a few tries - repeating the whole procedure, I tried a seach of the whole computer - again no success. I'm sure I screwed up something, because if this was a real problem, it would have been found before this.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

TIA

Don

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 09:56 AM, <paul@...> wrote:

If I open the block table and select the 'Add' button I can then add 1 or more blocks. ?If I specify a block system name ?(e.g. IB1 ) and check 'Add a sequential range' I get blocks generated with system names of IB1, IB1:1 IB1:2 and so on. ?If I then edit a track segment on using the layout editor using the edit option on the segment's popup menu and select one of the 'IBx:y' system names as the block name for the block and hit 'Done' the dialogue doesn't close and the system log shows a null pointer exception.

This is the undefined user name problem mentioned by DaveS.

?Conversely if I use the layout editor to create a new track segment and select one of the 'IBx:y' system names in the Block Name: drop down list *(e.g. IB1:3)

Is this the "Block Name" combobox in the editor panel? Playing with this and looking at the code it appears that you have to select the block from the combobox before you create the track segment; if a block isn't selected here then the track segment a assigned to a new block with the next available system name and user names ("IBx" & "AUTOBLK:y").

a new track segment is created OK and assigned to newly created block with 'IB1:3' as the user name, so I now have two different blocks, one with IB1:3 as ?the system name and one with it as the user name. ?At the ?moment I suspect the easier approach is for me to generate a range of blocks with simple IB1, IB2, IB3 numbering manually.

I've never liked the colon separator that's added… I'd prefer that autogenerated names pick the next (numerically) available names; for example: If I input IB3 and autogenerate three more they'd be IB4, IB5 and IB6.
Likewise for user names "Geo" becomes "Geo1", "Geo2" and "Geo3" or "Geo13" becomes "Geo13", "Geo14" and "Geo15" (skipping any names already used).

Thoughts? And… discuss… ;-)

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Brad?

Open your preferences and go to the defaults tab. Make sure nothing is set for internal.

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When trying to read a loco on my NCE test track, Decoder pro only reads 15227 all the time for different loco's, even different manufactures, and it won't allow you to open comprehensive programmer

Hey Paul,
If you want to write up the 1st issue (at <I’ll take a look at it ASAP.

When I read from the NCE test track on Decoder Pro it comes up with a DCC address of 15227, and it is programmed and works with my NCE power cab as 3023.? Why would it read a different address?