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Re: WiThrottle "Not Set" Issues CONTINUED- "Stump the Band"
Sounds like a Digitrax issue and not a JMRI issue. What has Digitrax tech support suggested?
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Don't understand throttle
Have a pr4 and have had no problem programming but am trying to use the throttle.
Have computer connected to pr4 with loconet cable to DSC200? and can get loco number in throttle but get no response when trying to run loco on mainline.
Have research several comments, but see no instructions.
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Jon,
If the font is installed on your PC, it should show up in the menu.? Are you using "Tabular" option?, if so, only mono-spaced fonts are shown in the menu.
Dan
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Re: WiThrottle "Not Set" Issues CONTINUED- "Stump the Band"
On 7/26/2018 9:48 AM, Mick Moignard
wrote:
If
you must use
the extended slots, then don't select a loco with a DT500 or
DT402 V2.1
first, because that will place it in the extended slots and
make it invisible
to older throttles such as JMRI.
??? So much for backward
compatibility.
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Jon Miller
For me time stopped in 1941
Digitrax Chief/Zephyr systems, JMRI User
SPROG User
NMRA Life member #2623
Member SFRH&MS
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Re: Operations With Staging Yard
Hi Chris,
If you can set the number of passes to 1, contact me immediately as you found a bug with with program!? 2 is the least number of passes when using aggressive mod. The option to use "Normal mode" is only needed if you have tight controls on train lengths out of staging.? ?That option can be found in the edit train window.
Dan
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Re: rs232 - usb adapter for pi
thanks?everyone for the help.
tonight is train night, so i'll be back at it. I'm interested to see the output of the new usb check commands I have seen here. I have always just relied on "dmesg" to show status when I plug or unplug a usb device from Linux.
jim, you had one line... "Note and possibly of importance no other adapter connected" ... was that? a list of adapters that worked with the pi but didn't play well with nce?
calvin.
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Re: WiThrottle "Not Set" Issues CONTINUED- "Stump the Band"
I wonder if the issue
is that the selected locos are already in the Extended Slots in the DCS240,
which, because Digitrax have not released the Loconet specs that define
how these slots are accessed and used, JMRI and JMRI connected throttles
such as WiThrottle can't access. I bet you can run those trains with a
DT500 or a DT402 that has been upgraded to 2.1, and also that they won't
run with an old DT400 or DT402 1.7 or below.
There is a fix:
turn off extended slots and then clear all the slots. ?Then the DCS240
will only use the traditional 12 slots. ?
To turn off DCS240
extended slots, set OPSW 44= C, as described in the manual ?
section 5 pages 31 to 35. ? Once you've done that, then clear the
clots with the purge slot button, also called the Loco Reset button, manual
section 4.14 page 28.
You may well then
find that it all works as expected. ?Or you may not, there may be
something else wrong....
If you must use
the extended slots, then don't select a loco with a DT500 or DT402 V2.1
first, because that will place it in the extended slots and make it invisible
to older throttles such as JMRI.
Mick
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Specialising in DCC Sound
p: +44 7774 652504
e: mick@...
skype: mickmoignard
IBM
Notes and Domino: still has what it takes as an App Dev and Collaboration
platform.
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Re: Can't get throttle to work
Paxton,
You can't open a second profile while the first is open if they both use the
same interface. Trying that will always show an error.
-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team
www.jmri.org
www.fingerlakeslivesteamers.org
www.cnymod.com
www.syracusemodelrr.org
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Re: 2 way working on single track - signals
Peter:
In US practice the would be either a track direction switch to manually set direction or picking off the first entry point to initiate what's called tumble down... All the signals in the opposing direction go to stop.
Does this sound what you want?
Jim Albanowski
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Re: Can't get throttle to work
I can't get throttle to work and when I set up a second profile it uses the same com port and I get error message when I try to start up.
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Re: Operations With Staging Yard
Hi Dan,
About "Aggressive" mode.? I understand that Aggressive (build) mode is the only way to get a train departing staging to return to the same staging track, and that the default 'number of passes' during build is 2.? How does the build behave with the number of passes set to 1?
Is the answer in this excerpt from the manual, "the program will skip searching for destinations for cars out of staging on the first pass unless the is selected.?"
Thanks in advance,
Chris
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Is there any way to add a font to be used to print the manifests/switchlists?? I have travelling_typewriter on my pc which provides a neat old-time typewriter effect which we would like to use.? I see that the manifest print options has a menu for font, but it appears to have a preset list of fonts.
Jon
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Re: WiThrottle "Not Set" Issues CONTINUED- "Stump the Band"
Luke,
Two things come to mind:
1. Have you cleared the slots in the DCS? I'm thinking issues like a
throttle steal situation. If the slots are clear, that shouldn't be a
problem.
2. Have any other throttles around that might have the same loco allocated?
Again concern about a steal issue.
You could use the JMRI LocoNet monitor to trace what the conversation is
when you try to acquire a loco. It may give more clues about what it
happening. Just make sure the throttle service in JMRI is turned off since
you have a LNWI.
-Ken Cameron, Member JMRI Dev Team
www.jmri.org
www.fingerlakeslivesteamers.org
www.cnymod.com
www.syracusemodelrr.org
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Re: WiThrottle "Not Set" Issues CONTINUED- "Stump the Band" FOLLOW-UP
Dear Gents,
ALSO. Explain why I get the same issues on the club layout with a
totally different server?
Regards,
Robert Diepenbrock
On 7/26/18 7:15 AM, Classic Auto
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OK Spuds and Fellahs,
Here's the ultimate WiThrottle "Stump the Band" question:
After multiple attempts at installing WiThrottle with the same
repeated dissapointing results as shown below. I eliminated every
other possible element that might be inteferring, for as clean a
"test" as possible. SAME RESULT.
WTF????????
SYSTEM: Digitrax DCS240 Advanced Command Station, LNWI WiFi Server
SEQUENCE:
? Quit JRMI
? Shut down MacBook Pro (the system with JMRI on it)
? Delete WiThrottle App from iPad
? Download new "clean" WiThrottle App to iPad (iPad running IOS
10.3.3 "up to date")
? Set WiFi on iPad: Dtx1-LnServer_0BFF-7
? Launch WiThrotttle
? Confirm iPad is communicating with Digitrax LNWI WiFi Server by
turning "Track Power" On and Off and On again- Locomotives on
track, #7614 and #6035 respond with start-up sounds, turn off,
then start-up sounds again.
? Enter 7614 in "New Entry" window- press "Set" button. Immediate
"Loco 7614(L) in Use Would you like to acquire this address?"
prompt. Press "Yes" button, keyboard slides up momentarily, then
down. Not Set in
address window. Repeated pressing of "Yes" button, same result. Not Set.
? Enter 6035 in "New Entry" window- press "Set" button. Immediate
"Loco 6035(L) in Use Would you like to acquire this address?"
prompt. Press "Yes" button, keyboard slides up momentarily, then
down. Not Set in
address window. Repeated pressing of "Yes" button, same result. Not Set.
? 7614(L) and 6035(L) appeared "Recents" column. Click on each
"Recents" address. Number populates "New Entry" window. Press Set
button. Same result. Not Set.
Odd readout? See first screen to left.
Current Server: Unknown
on: None Selected
SSID: Dtx1-LnServer¨C0BFF-7
Looks like WiThrottle "sees" the LNWI WiFi Server
Dtx1-LnServer¨C0BFF-7, so why the "Current Server: Unknown on: None Selected
listings?"
OK Obi-Wans what now? ;>)
Regards,
Luke-Robert
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OK Spuds and Fellahs,
Here's the ultimate WiThrottle "Stump the Band" question:
After multiple attempts at installing WiThrottle with the same
repeated dissapointing results as shown below. I eliminated every
other possible element that might be inteferring, for as clean a
"test" as possible. SAME RESULT.
WTF????????
SYSTEM: Digitrax DCS240 Advanced Command Station, LNWI WiFi Server
SEQUENCE:
? Quit JRMI
? Shut down MacBook Pro (the system with JMRI on it)
? Delete WiThrottle App from iPad
? Download new "clean" WiThrottle App to iPad (iPad running IOS
10.3.3 "up to date")
? Set WiFi on iPad: Dtx1-LnServer_0BFF-7
? Launch WiThrotttle
? Confirm iPad is communicating with Digitrax LNWI WiFi Server by
turning "Track Power" On and Off and On again- Locomotives on track,
#7614 and #6035 respond with start-up sounds, turn off, then
start-up sounds again.
? Enter 7614 in "New Entry" window- press "Set" button. Immediate
"Loco 7614(L) in Use Would you like to acquire this address?"
prompt. Press "Yes" button, keyboard slides up momentarily, then
down. Not Set in address window.
Repeated pressing of "Yes" button, same result. Not Set.
? Enter 6035 in "New Entry" window- press "Set" button. Immediate
"Loco 6035(L) in Use Would you like to acquire this address?"
prompt. Press "Yes" button, keyboard slides up momentarily, then
down. Not Set in address window.
Repeated pressing of "Yes" button, same result. Not Set.
? 7614(L) and 6035(L) appeared "Recents" column. Click on each
"Recents" address. Number populates "New Entry" window. Press Set
button. Same result. Not Set.
Odd readout? See first screen to left.
Current Server: Unknown
on: None Selected
SSID: Dtx1-LnServer¨C0BFF-7
Looks like WiThrottle "sees" the LNWI WiFi Server
Dtx1-LnServer¨C0BFF-7, so why the "Current Server: Unknown on: None Selected listings?"
OK Obi-Wans what now? ;>)
Regards,
Luke-Robert
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Re: Operations With Staging Yard
Here's the help link to how staging tracks work:
Dan
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Re: 2 way working on single track - signals
Hi Peter
In tools->Sections>Tools->"Set Direction Sensors In Logic"
If that fails:
tools->tables->Signals->SignalMastLogic", find the signal ->edit->sensor tab,
and select the sensors you want "Apply"
Or via the LayoutPanel: Alternate Click on the mast to bring up the
menu->"signal mast logic : {mastname}"-> find the destination mast in the
list->edit -> select the sensors tab, add the sensors you want and "Apply"
Steve G
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From: "Peter Riggall via Groups.Io" <petermmrs@...>
Date: July 26, 2018 at 7:54 AM
My end-to-end layout includes a mainline single track designated for two way
working.
It is described in a JMRI Layout Panel that includes Blocks that have
occupancy sensor feedback.? Signalling uses Signal Masts to a definition that
I have created for Australian Victorian methods and I have also defined
Sections (using auto generate) for each signal pair and set up Transits to
route from West to East.?
I would expect the signals in the opposite direction to remain RED, however,
as a train traverses and vacates the Block that the opposite Signal protects,
the signal changes from Red to Caution.
The Sections documentation of JMRI indicates that the internal direction
Sensors "may be used in signal logic to force signals for travel in the
direction opposite to the allocated direction to RED", but I cannot find
anywhere how to achieve this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in anticipation.
Peter
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Re: rs232 - usb adapter for pi
The web page that Marcus Ammann put together (with assistance from me) explains both how to make a loopback connector and also how use JMRI to test the looped-back connection. It was written specifically to diagnose problems with NCE Power Pro, USB to Serial cables and JMRI. <>
No terminal program needed for this loopback test.
The New England Convention 2018
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On 26 Jul 2018, at 8:32 PM, jimalbanowski < jimalbanowski@...> wrote: If all looks good and we still have a problem I would look at a loop back connector and a terminal program... which so far I haven't found for the Pi... sigh... I'll keep looking.... The idea is to be sure that even though the USB is detected we're actually getting data out and in...
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2 way working on single track - signals
My end-to-end layout includes a mainline single track designated for two way working.
It is described in a JMRI Layout Panel that includes Blocks that have occupancy sensor feedback.? Signalling uses Signal Masts to a definition that I have created for Australian Victorian methods and I have also defined Sections (using auto generate) for each signal pair and set up Transits to route from West to East.?
I would expect the signals in the opposite direction to remain RED, however, as a train traverses and vacates the Block that the opposite Signal protects, the signal changes from Red to Caution.
The Sections documentation of JMRI indicates that the internal direction Sensors "may be used in signal logic to force signals for travel in the direction opposite to the allocated direction to RED", but I cannot find anywhere how to achieve this.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in anticipation.
Peter
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Re: rs232 - usb adapter for pi
If all looks good and we still have a problem I would look at a loop back connector
and a terminal program... which so far I haven't found for the Pi... sigh... I'll keep looking.... Putty? Free SSH & Telnet client.
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Peter Ulvestad
Ken Cameron