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ESU and JMRI #esu

 

I would like to know how to set faded sound levels using JMRI with ESU decoders.
Is there a definitive guide anywhere I could see - either video or text based - that explains the sound settings in detail?
Thanks in advance.
Chris
 

Download ESU Lok Programmer Software. Its free,
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Load which ever sound file you are working with. Make which ever changes you need then
go to Tools and click on Show Changed CV's.
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It gives you a list of changed CV's. You can then Use Decoder Pro to make the appropriate changes.? ? ?
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There's another approach...

The one area where the DecoderPro/Lok programming goes into the weeds is the sound slots. They aren't always the same. If there's a listed project it's documentation contains the list of the sound in what slot, then it's easy (well easier) to use the stock Lok programming in JMRI.

Hard to explain without the programmer open...

I have a wide screen display might be interesting to see how the two app approach would work with both up on the screen... no note taking...

Jim Albanowski
 

Chris
If what you are looking for is the sound level that fadeout goes down to then it appears to be controlled by CV133 labeled as 'Fade sound will reduce volume to' in LokProgrammer. You can see it at the very bottom of Inobu's screenshot. CV135 controls the fadeout speed in seconds, e.g. put 10 in there and it will take 10 seconds to fade down to the minimum or to fade back up to normal.
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As Inobu suggested having LokProgrammer software installed is a great help. In LP it is good to show the CV numbers alongside the name of the setting. I don't remember if this is the default but it can be toggled on/off in the program settings.
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George
 

Thanks to all who have replied.? Sad to say, here in the UK the sound files are not freely available as they are in the USA and I don't believe it is possible to retrieve the files from the decoder. So it looks as if I'm a bit stuck but I'll experiment with the LokProgrammer software and see if that can help.
Thanks again for your help.
Chris
 

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In the absence of information from the sound project (ie. which sound slot contains which sound), then the process for changing sound levels in either LokProgrammer software, or JMRI/DecoderPro is essentially the same.? ?

Work from the function mapping to sound slot number? (take notes of what is what),? and then can adjust the levels for that slot.? ? To achieve that requires reading the function map and sound level CV's,? which in turn requires a device which can do that.? ?
A DCC system with a programming track, connected to JMRI can do it (though generally slower than the ESU LokProgrammer hardware).? ?A DCC system which can do "read" on the mainline via RailCom (eg.? Roco Z21, and others), connected to JMRI,? is much faster.? ? The slow "read" only needs doing once.??

There are some UK sound projects which are available - those which used to come from SW-Digital are on the ESU downloads website.? But other sound producers usually keep their projects private.??

- Nigel



------ Original Message ------
From "Chris Walsh via groups.io" <cwalsh561@...>
Date 23/03/2025 14:00:05
Subject Re: [jmriusers] ESU and JMRI #esu

Thanks to all who have replied.? Sad to say, here in the UK the sound files are not freely available as they are in the USA and I don't believe it is possible to retrieve the files from the decoder. So it looks as if I'm a bit stuck but I'll experiment with the LokProgrammer software and see if that can help.
Thanks again for your help.
Chris

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