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I am working on an installation of Team Digital BLOC8D for our club and
would like some help on the readout I get when monitoring the LocoNet via
Decoder Pro.

This is the sequence I get when using the potentiometers on the board to
force the detectors HI and then LOW. Let's not worry about Sensor 134 for
the time being (the text is mine, not Decoder Pro), it is currently
"hanging" in a constantly HI state.

So it seems to me that Decoder Pro is seeing the BLOC8D just fine.

I am curious about the text at the end of each line in parentheses
regarding such things as BDL #16, and so on). Is this text "comment"
supplied by Decoder Pro or LocoNet?

I set the BLOC8D in this example with a beginning address of 200, so I was
assuming the output would read 200-207, and wonder why I am getting numbers
133-140.

What does the prefix LS mean?

Finally, the main reason for this whole exercise is to deliver block
occupancy data to Loconet that can be read by other hardware and set
signals. Is this what the HEX numbers are at the beginning, right after
the time stamp indicate?

This is my first time working with the output from the LocoNet in Decoder
Pro, and it is really interesting to me. Thanks for any guidance and
advice.

Jerry Michels
Amarillo Railroad Museum


11:24:32.359: [B2 42 50 5F] Sensor LS133 () is Hi. (BDL16 #9, DS5;
DS54/64/SE8c #17, AuxC/A3/DS05)
*Missing Sensor LS134*
11:24:32.484: [B2 43 50 5E] Sensor LS135 () is Hi. (BDL16 #9, DS7;
DS54/64/SE8c #17, AuxD/A4/DS07)
11:24:32.609: [B2 43 70 7E] Sensor LS136 () is Hi. (BDL16 #9, DS8;
DS54/64/SE8c #17, SwiD/S4/DS08)
11:24:35.234: [B2 44 50 59] Sensor LS137 () is Hi. (BDL16 #9, DS9;
DS54/64/SE8c #18, AuxA/A1/DS01)
11:24:35.359: [B2 44 70 79] Sensor LS138 () is Hi. (BDL16 #9, DS10;
DS54/64/SE8c #18, SwiA/S1/DS02)
11:24:35.484: [B2 45 50 58] Sensor LS139 () is Hi. (BDL16 #9, DS11;
DS54/64/SE8c #18, AuxB/A2/DS03)
11:24:35.625: [B2 45 70 78] Sensor LS140 () is Hi. (BDL16 #9, DS12;
DS54/64/SE8c #18, SwiB/S2/DS04)
11:24:41.250: [B2 42 40 4F] Sensor LS133 () is Lo. (BDL16 #9, DS5;
DS54/64/SE8c #17, AuxC/A3/DS05)
*Missing Sensor LS134*
11:24:41.375: [B2 43 40 4E] Sensor LS135 () is Lo. (BDL16 #9, DS7;
DS54/64/SE8c #17, AuxD/A4/DS07)
11:24:41.500: [B2 43 60 6E] Sensor LS136 () is Lo. (BDL16 #9, DS8;
DS54/64/SE8c #17, SwiD/S4/DS08)
11:24:45.046: [B2 44 40 49] Sensor LS137 () is Lo. (BDL16 #9, DS9;
DS54/64/SE8c #18, AuxA/A1/DS01)
11:24:45.171: [B2 44 60 69] Sensor LS138 () is Lo. (BDL16 #9, DS10;
DS54/64/SE8c #18, SwiA/S1/DS02)
11:24:45.296: [B2 45 40 48] Sensor LS139 () is Lo. (BDL16 #9, DS11;
DS54/64/SE8c #18, AuxB/A2/DS03)
11:24:45.437: [B2 45 60 68] Sensor LS140 () is Lo. (BDL16 #9, DS12;
DS54/64/SE8c #18, SwiB/S2/DS04)

The following is rearranged a bit to make it more readable.

On Jul 26, 2017, at 9:45 PM, Gerald Michels gjmichels53@... [jmriusers] <jmriusers@...> wrote:


This is the sequence I get when using the potentiometers on the board to
force the detectors HI and then LOW.

e.g.

11:24:32.359: [B2 42 50 5F] Sensor LS133 () is Hi. (BDL16 #9, DS5;
DS54/64/SE8c #17, AuxC/A3/DS05)

So it seems to me that Decoder Pro is seeing the BLOC8D just fine.

Agreed.

I am curious about the text at the end of each line in parentheses
regarding such things as BDL #16, and so on). Is this text "comment"
supplied by Decoder Pro or LocoNet?

The only thing that the LocoNet provides it the part in []. e.g. [B2 42 50 5F] called the raw data. The rest is JMRI trying to make it readable for you. Digitrax has used lots of ways to write addresses, depending on which Digitrax board was in use, so the part in () is trying to show those. That message could have been issued by channel 5 on a BDL16* set to #9; etc.

I set the BLOC8D in this example with a beginning address of 200, so I was
assuming the output would read 200-207, and wonder why I am getting numbers
133-140.

What does the prefix LS mean?

LocoNet Sensor.

Finally, the main reason for this whole exercise is to deliver block
occupancy data to Loconet that can be read by other hardware and set
signals. Is this what the HEX numbers are at the beginning, right after
the time stamp indicate?

If you open the JMRI Sensor Table, you’ll see entries for each of those under the LS numbers. They’ll change as messages come in from the layout. You can use that in the various JMRI tools.

Bob

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Bob Jacobsen
rgj1927@...

Bob, thanks for the very helpful reply. I know I have a long way to go to
understand how JMRI works, but it is a fun venture. Thanks again. Jerry
Michels