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Re: Zephyr
Can any of this group that have a Zephyr test the feedback for me. Mine
basically doesn't work. Several calls to Digitrax and their line is I'm the
only one that's unhappy, they have heard
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Re: LocoBuffer/Decoder Pro Problem
You've been incredibly patient through all this.
Do you happen to be located in California? If so, maybe I should drop by with some test equipment and try to figure out what's going wrong.
I live
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Bob Jacobsen
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Re: LocoBuffer jumpers
The code _requires_ that echo be on. It listens to the incoming messages, including the echo'd ones it transmitted, to figure out the order in which things actually happened on the LocoNet. If you
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Re: FAQ/Trouble Shooting LOG
And a _very_ good idea. I've put a little of this info onto the web pages, but if somebody wanted to write a section of the manual on troubleshooting, it would help a bunch of people.
Unfortunately,
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Bob Jacobsen
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Re: My 2 hours with decoder pro and Win XP
DecoderPro and the Java Comm library are trying to set the serial port to:
Flow control to the LocoBuffer; don't send unless CTS (Clear
To Send) is active.
Ignore flow control from the
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Bob Jacobsen
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DecoderPro communications problems & request for info
First, thanks for all the kind words.
There seem to be several problems happening.
1) It appears that certain models of the Keyspan PDA adapter can't handle the LocoBuffer's 57,600 rate. This might
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Bob Jacobsen
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Re: LocoBuffer/Decoder Pro Problem
Perhaps something has gotten confused in the preferences file. If you search for file(s) named "DecoderProConfig.xml" on your system and remove them (while the program isn't running!), when you next
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Bob Jacobsen
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Re: LocoBuffer/Decoder Pro Problem
Bill,
That's ok there are only four LED's on that board. If you look at the
back of the small pc board you will see;
RAIL-
LOCO2
LOCO1
RAIL+
When you plug it in and get four LED's lit it is
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Jon Miller <atsf@...>
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Re: LocoBuffer/Decoder Pro Problem
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Hello billroger,
The cable should be straight through, in other words if you hold both
connectors next to each other in the same orientation the wires
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Jonathan B. Bayer <linuxgurugamer@...>
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LocoBuffer/Decoder Pro Problem
Jon et al:
More and I believe my problem is with the cable. I have this gadget that came with my DCS100, it's a telephone jack with a circuit board attached with what looks like 6 green LED's on the
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Re: programmer error
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Hello Jon,
Tuesday, November 5, 2002, 11:16:21 PM, you wrote:
JM> Alex,
JM> ????????? This has been bouncing around on about 3 lists.???
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Jonathan B. Bayer <linuxgurugamer@...>
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Re: My 2 hours with decoder pro and Win XP
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Hello Alex,
This is a problem with the Locobuffer. Depending on how the computer
hardware deals with a unconnected signal, it can be either high or
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Jonathan B. Bayer <linuxgurugamer@...>
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Re: DecoderPro won't.....
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Hello vanhovem02,
It is probably related to the flow control. Try 57600 baud with no flow
control.
I had this problem a few days ago and was able to
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Jonathan B. Bayer <linuxgurugamer@...>
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Re: Zephyr
More on the DCS50. I finally hooked up a Lenz LE104XF and the DCS50
read the address. So downstairs and hook up to DecoderPro. It did read the
basic, after many hits, so right now it's trying
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Jon Miller <atsf@...>
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DecoderPro won't...
Bob:
I forgot to mention, this is on an Apple iMac; 233hz 256 meg of
ram and System 8.6, so it's not specific to the dreaded Windows
System
Mike
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DecoderPro won't.....
Bob:
I have followed your suggestions and set baud to 19700,
disabled Flow Control and checked all the jumpers on Loco
Buffer. Threw away all the DecoperProConfig.xml files and
restarted.
Lo!
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vanhovem02 <mvanhove@...>
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Re: My 2 hours with decoder pro and Win XP
I discovered DecoderPro just a couple days ago. After a couple false starts
I got it up and running yesterday. It is on an early-Pentium laptop running
W98SE. I'm using an MS100 to connect to my
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Michael Burkholder
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Re: My 2 hours with decoder pro and Win XP
No Flow Control was the setting that got mine going, too (FYI: a PII 200mhz
desktop with a serial card I purchased from Loy's). Maybe anyone with com
port problems should be experimenting with this
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Jim Buckley <jim@...>
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Re: My 2 hours with decoder pro and Win XP
Bob,
This is starting to smell like the Java Comm API is not correctly handling
the hardware handshake configuration or XP is doing something different.
Looking at LocoBufferAdapter.java you appear
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Alex Shepherd <ashepherd@...>
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My 2 hours with decoder pro and Win XP
Well a friend just got his decoder pro, so I went to help. I am a MAC guy
but I am an NT Lan Admin at work :( Anyway we spent 1.5 hours changing this
and that. What finally worked was resetting the
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William Hipple
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