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Re: Broadway ltd
Nick
Sorry Bruce, I forgot, the new SOUND decoders cannot do that.? But YES, YES, YES, that DOES work on non-sound decoders. Have you ever tried it ? You can even do it with Digitrax. I have, and YES it does work. BETA Tester for QSIsolutions. Nick Kulp ? "I'm not a failure. I started at the bottom and I found it easily attainable. Life is too short to set unattainable goals" - Nick Kulp On Jan 9, 2019, at 12:46 PM, Robert J. Richter <rjr@...> wrote:
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Re: Broadway ltd
Hi Robert, Not at all sure how it could have caused the ensuing mess, but there definitely is a hole in your way of working. Where you said 'wrote page' (after my first whoah...) you were writing information to the decoder that had not been read from it first. So anything that was in memory at the time, except for the address things you changed, would have been only slightly better than random. Wouter On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 19:25, Robert J. Richter <rjr@...> wrote:
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Re: DCC++ Audrino current detection and block detection and colour light signalling. DIY Style
Martin Peake
Hi there, The block detection shield uses TCRT5000 sensors set under the track to detect traffic overhead. It measures ambient light to reduce false positives, and can drive the inputs to an Arduino Mega that you would use for your DCC++ controller. Details are . You can hard wire a board, or I can send you a bare PCB to build up and test. |
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Re: Broadway ltd
¿ªÔÆÌåÓý1 + 2 We use NCE on the mainline, but the programming track is SPROG III to computer, USB interface 3 no 4 no I have not, will look into it??? Rick Knight? What do you think? 5 did not know that will do 6 only know that it was a Pennsy K4 probably recent model ? Robert J. Richter 283 Elm Street North Reading, MA 01864 ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick via Groups.Io ? Robert, ? Just a few questions on your process. 1. What type of DCC system ? 2. How is it connected to the computer system. (Locobuffer USB for Digitrax or PR ? from Digitrax) or a PB100 from NCE. 3. If it is a Digitrax wimp system with low programming output, are you using the necessary programming track booster. 4. Have you disabled the "decoder talk-back" CV ? If not, the decoder will try to verbally repeat the CV and the following CVs will not get programmed. 5. If you are trying to program a 4-digit address, simply write that into CV 18. 6. What TYPE of BLI decoder ? Is it the OEM QSI decoder, The failure Blue-line from BLI, or one of the newer Paragon versions made by BLI ? ? These are important information. Anyone trying to answer your question without basic info is not helping . ? ====================== HOW to ask your question ====================== ? One of the most common questions about JMRI is "How do I get it to work?". This isn't really a problem with JMRI itself in most cases, but there are HUGE numbers of possible configurations for DCC systems, and Windows, Linux, and Mac computers out there. Just asking "How do I get it to work" is NOT going to get you any useful help.? ? When asking ANY question, you should utilize a meaningful subject line that indicates? the problem and include the following information in the body of the message: ? + If JMRI has started copy and paste the System Console into the body. (its under help on the start screen) + Has JMRI worked before on this computer? + Computer make and model ? + if you have just upgraded, from? which version + Any other DCC devices in use + Specific details of your difficulty including error messages if any,? ? Depending on the nature of the problem, you may need to supply even more information, but this is the absolute required for anyone to give you accurate answers.? ? Signing you post helps keep the group friendly and personable! ? Please supply the required info for accurate answers. ? Regards, Nick Kulp ? ? "I'm not a failure. I started at the bottom and I found it easily attainable. Life is too short to set unattainable goals" ? ? ? Last knight a club member came to me with a Broadway ltd Pennsy K4 and I put it on the program track, It read as short address 174, correct long address but with short bulleted I corrected that and read the decoder all CV¡¯s, saved then it would not find it in the list and came back with short address (I had saved bulleted and wrote long)? redid the whole thing still would not find in list and then we went to the regular track and it had changed not only the short but also the long address as something completely different, made me look real stupid to the member who was kind about it but was really frustrating. ? Any thoughts on what I did wrong? ? Robert J. Richter 283 Elm Street North Reading, MA 01864 ? ? |
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Re: Broadway ltd
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýWe are using a sprog III with it¡¯s power supply, I do not think it was in adequate power ? Robert J. Richter 283 Elm Street North Reading, MA 01864 ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Granville
Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 12:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [jmriusers] Broadway ltd ? From: Classic Auto Portraits Dear Robert, ? I don¡¯t think this has anything to do with JMRI. It is a question of what programming hardware is being used. I have never had a problem with Paragon 2 or 3 programming with a Sprog IIv3. Have had problems using a PR3 as standalone, even with 18V supply and couldn¡¯t program at all with an NCE PowerHouse unless it had a PowerPax programming booster attached. So far, the Sprog IIv3 has not failed to deliver (unless there are keep alives or current keepers attached to the decoder), even with an MTH decoder. Maybe I¡¯m just lucky. ? Mark Granville |
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Re: Broadway ltd
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýNo booster, sprog, short track ? Robert J. Richter 283 Elm Street North Reading, MA 01864 ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Petrarca via Groups.Io
Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 12:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [jmriusers] Broadway ltd ? There is no way to have a short address of 174. Only seven bits of CV1 are used for the address. Thus, the maximum number is 127.
I don't know of any system that supports 174 as a short address. |
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Re: Broadway ltd
That is what has me mystified also, thanks Ken
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Robert J. Richter 283 Elm Street North Reading, MA 01864 -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ken Cameron Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [jmriusers] Broadway ltd Robert, I don't know of any system that supports 174 as a short address. AFAIK, the NMRA standard says all with the long mode address from 128 and above. -Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team www.jmri.org www.fingerlakeslivesteamers.org www.cnymod.com www.syracusemodelrr.org |
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¿ªÔÆÌåÓýSee below ? Robert J. Richter 283 Elm Street North Reading, MA 01864 ? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of whmvd ? Hi Robert, ? I am totally unsure what you actually did. This is what I get from your description, but I cannot work out the rather important details. ? I put it on the program track - Check. It read as short address 174, correct long address but with short bulleted - Check. I corrected that - Whoah. Corrected what, exactly? Am assuming short to long and nothing else. And also assume you wrote *something* back to the decoder. But what? Individual CVs? Changes? Entire sheet? All sheets? ????????????? CHANGED TO LONG BULLIT, WROTE PAGE, SAVED and read the decoder all CV¡¯s - Whoah again. That's too late. If you want to program, first get the entire decoder content in your sheets. ??????????? READ ALL CV¡¯S AND SAVED ? saved - Because now you have no real idea of what you saved. None at all. then it would not find it in the list - What list? ????????????? THE LIST OF LOCOMOTIVES IN MY (THE CLUB¡¯S) ROSTER and came back with short address (I had saved bulleted and wrote long) - So you read the address again? Just the address? Sheet? Indicidual CVs? All sheets? ??????????? DID AN IDENTIFY, COULD NOT IDENTIFY, AND THEN DID A NEW LOCOMOTIVE READ redid the whole thing - Hmmm.... WIthout the more exact steps it becomes even more difficult to follow what goes on. still would not find in list ????????????? LIST OF MY LOCOMOTIVES IN ROSTER - Glad to hear that - doing the same again on a digital system and getting the same result is in my view a Good Thing and then we went to the regular track and it had changed not only the short but also the long address as something completely different - Intrigued. I have no idea how you read the address on the non-program track? ? I fear you need to start over with this decoder, and start with reading all. I hope you'll see more consistency after that. ? Wouter ? On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 16:16, Robert J. Richter <rjr@...> wrote:
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Re: Continued ECoS Issues...think I am near a solution. It is the ECoSDetector RC 4 ports
Not an ECoS expert at all, but happy to work with you on tracking this down.
Can you build & run JMRI from a GitHub branch? If so, I can push a version with a bunch more diagnostics in this area for you to try. Bob On Jan 9, 2019, at 3:58 AM, Nathan Tableman <nathan@...> wrote:-- Bob Jacobsen rgj1927@... |
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Re: Programming locos with Fleischmann Twin-Center sw ver. 2.000 and DecoderPro 4.14
Hello Alan, reading CVs by directly using the keypad on the Twin-Center works as expected. I can hear the relay switching the program track on when I enter programming mode and all basic CVs read and write successfully on different locos.
I did some more testing with JMRI and I noticed that at times the relay clicked some (long) time after I pressed the command to read CVs on the PC but then I got the same timeout error. In this case, after the click, one time I saw the command station crash and reset itself, and another time on the console screen another error message came up regarding an unrecognized incoming loconet package. I'm sorry, in the hurry I forgot to copy-paste it this morning. My guess would be that for some strange reason the command station takes longer to answer in programming mode when controlled via the serial port and because of this JMRI believes that the request has been lost and sends a new request, eventually hogging the buffer of the serial interface with requests, which would explain the errors broken incoming packages and the crashes on the Twin-Center. This is only my assumption based on what I saw though, I have no knowledge the internal workings of the thing, so if you know something more about it I'll be glad to be corrected. Thank you, Marco |
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Re: MQTT Connection in JMRI
On Jan 8, 2019, at 4:00 PM, Dave <davemc@...> wrote:(Separate reply in case it becomes a separate thread) I think the goal is to create ¡°how JMRI works with MQTT¡± without a lot of attention to the (very small) number of existing setups. Any Light/Sensor/Report support will be entirely new. Any JMRI configurations that have working Turnouts can be converted via the JMRI tables or by editing their panel files: No changes to the external MQTT devices and broker(s) is necessary. (That panel-editing operation should be trivial for people who¡¯ve been doing some of the things being discussed here). I¡¯m not going to spend time coding migration steps. If somebody else wants to, that¡¯s maybe fine, maybe not. Bob -- Bob Jacobsen rgj1927@... |
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Re: Broadway ltd
I only have one BLI loco, Mikado, I have not had any problems what so ever
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reading or programming this loco. My secret to programming locos, any brand (I haven't tried MTH though) is to use JMRI and a SPROG, NCE, ESU, Digitrax, Bachman, Hornby, TCS, QSI, Soundtraxx, Lenz and MRC have been no problem at all. John ---------- Original Message ---------- |
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Re: Broadway ltd
Nick
Robert, Just a few questions on your process. 1. What type of DCC system ? 2. How is it connected to the computer system. (Locobuffer USB for Digitrax or PR ? from Digitrax) or a PB100 from NCE. 3. If it is a Digitrax wimp system with low programming output, are you using the necessary programming track booster. 4. Have you disabled the "decoder talk-back" CV ? If not, the decoder will try to verbally repeat the CV and the following CVs will not get programmed. 5. If you are trying to program a 4-digit address, simply write that into CV 18. 6. What TYPE of BLI decoder ? Is it the OEM QSI decoder, The failure Blue-line from BLI, or one of the newer Paragon versions made by BLI ? These are important information. Anyone trying to answer your question without basic info is not helping . ====================== HOW to ask your question ====================== One of the most common questions about JMRI is "How do I get it to work?". This isn't really a problem with JMRI itself in most cases, but there are HUGE numbers of possible configurations for DCC systems, and Windows, Linux, and Mac computers out there. Just asking "How do I get it to work" is NOT going to get you any useful help.? When asking ANY question, you should utilize a meaningful subject line that indicates? the problem and include the following information in the body of the message: + If JMRI has started copy and paste the System Console into the body. (its under help on the start screen) + Has JMRI worked before on this computer? + Computer make and model ? + if you have just upgraded, from? which version + Any other DCC devices in use + Specific details of your difficulty including error messages if any,? Depending on the nature of the problem, you may need to supply even more information, but this is the absolute required for anyone to give you accurate answers.? Signing you post helps keep the group friendly and personable! Please supply the required info for accurate answers. Regards, Nick Kulp ? "I'm not a failure. I started at the bottom and I found it easily attainable. Life is too short to set unattainable goals" - Nick Kulp Last knight a club member came to me with a Broadway ltd Pennsy K4 and I put it on the program track, It read as short address 174, correct long address but with short bulleted I corrected that and read the decoder all CV¡¯s, saved then it would not find it in the list and came back with short address (I had saved bulleted and wrote long)? redid the whole thing still would not find in list and then we went to the regular track and it had changed not only the short but also the long address as something completely different, made me look real stupid to the member who was kind about it but was really frustrating. ? Any thoughts on what I did wrong? ? Robert J. Richter 283 Elm Street North Reading, MA 01864 ? |
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Re: MQTT Connection in JMRI
Two examples: If the system letter is M, then:
*) MTfoo/bar/biff/21/mine is a turnout that uses foo/bar/biff/21/mine as the MQTT topic *) MSrailroad/stuff/notMentioningSensorsHere/yardOSwest is a sensor that uses railroad/stuff/notMentioningSensorsHere/yardOSwest as the MQTT topic Etc. The first letter (optionally followed by digits) is the system prefix; the following T/S/R/L defines the type, and all that follows is the specific topic for that item. Bob On Jan 8, 2019, at 4:00 PM, Dave <davemc@...> wrote:-- Bob Jacobsen rgj1927@... |
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Re: Broadway ltd
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýFrom: Classic Auto Portraits Dear Mark, et. all, ? Again, this has nothing to do with JMRI. You probably have the same problems if you bypass JMRI and use your Digitrax throttle to program the loco. Have you tried reading a CV with your throttle to see if it works? ? Mark Granville ? If you are able to successfully program with your throttle, then it may mean there is a need for the JMRI coders to upgrade the DCS240 interface. Be sure you are using the most recent version of JMRI. ? Mark Granville |
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Re: DCC++ Audrino current detection and block detection and colour light signalling. DIY Style
On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 10:19 AM, Kevin wrote:
Hi David ?Hi Kevin, Many thanks for your reply. I didn't get the Dijikeijs or Digitrax? stuff for Christmas. Santa didn't like me! Hence why I was trying to see if there were Audrino projects that would do a similar job and be cheaper as budget will be a factor sadly for me. I have seen some stuff at Megapoints so will definitely look them up and have a chat. I'm certainly finding out more and more all the time. With Audrino I saw so much online that I was surprised as yet I have not found any block detection or 4 aspect signalling projects of yet. I wanted to be able to drive trains why others were automated hence wanting a system that reported these. |
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¿ªÔÆÌåÓýFrom: Classic Auto Portraits Dear Mark, et. all, ? Again, this has nothing to do with JMRI. You probably have the same problems if you bypass JMRI and use your Digitrax throttle to program the loco. Have you tried reading a CV with your throttle to see if it works? ? Mark Granville |
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Re: DCC++ Audrino current detection and block detection and colour light signalling. DIY Style
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi DavidI¡¯m a UK modeller too, and a JMRI user. I¡¯m struggling to work out why you are looking at DCC++ on an arduino when you already have a?Dijikeijs DR5000. The DR5000 will act as the DCC signal supply and will connect directly to a PC running JMRI. The DR5000 already supports various feedback systems so all you need to add will be appropriate feedback detectors to whichever feedback system takes your fancy. I may be wrong here, but I?don¡¯t think the DCC++ solution supports a feedback bus. Block detection is expensive¡The DR4088?isn¡¯t a bad option though, giving 16 channels for around ?50. Another option that might reduce costs is using the Megapoints system for both turnout control and feedback. I¡¯m guessing that since you are planning a loft layout it?won¡¯t be small¡¡.lots of turnouts, blocks and signals? Megapoints can handle 192 turnouts or signals from a single DCC module, and also has a 192 channel feedback system. The feedback currently doesn¡¯t interface to JMRI, but a new computer control module is very close to release. Overall the?mega points?system?isn¡¯t cheap, but on a large layout can reduce the unit cost of powering turnouts and signals.?4 aspect colour lights might be a bit of a challenge. I¡¯m using?mega points to drive UK semaphore signals, but extending this to 4 aspect?·É´Ç³Ü±ô»å²Ô¡¯³Ù be straightforward. However Dave Fenton at Megapoints may have something up his sleeve so its always worth asking him. Have you explored the TrainTech 4 aspect signal system? This would give you an easy route to a working signalling system, but?·É´Ç³Ü±ô»å²Ô¡¯³Ù?report the?signal setting or occupancy to JMRi. Kevin |