Such activity is presently outwith the scope of this initial help document.
ROCRAIL WITH. MANUAL
To progress to more complex train operations please read the Rocrail on-line manual in depth and filter out specific applicable information.Ī layout will likely have to be reworked into isolated power districts and/or operational blocks with necessary sensors to provide feedback for say aspect lights or signals, train positioning, or allow trains to run automatically, or to schedules. Rocrail nomenclature for points is switches and turnouts. This wikibook contains a basic Introduction to Model RailwaysÄrawing up a trackplan, identifying locomotives and motorised points to the system is covered by the Rocrail step by step quick start quide and the main on-line manual. It explains how Rocrail adjusts for quirks of the Hornby Elite controller, which is now fully supported by Rocrail using a specific elite sub-library. This document is for beginners to Rocrail who want to use a Hornby Elite DCC controller R8214 and Hornby Accessory Decoders R8216 and/or R8247.
5 Amending Rocrail configuration (.ini) file.
ROCRAIL WITH. DOWNLOAD
ROCRAIL WITH. SOFTWARE
Everything was the same, in fact, except the software - same Locoobuffer interface, same laptop computer I was trying to use JMRI on. And same hardware - no false block detections. Well, one weekend I went ove,r he had downloaded RR&Co and in a week had the trolley line automated like he wanted - me the computer guy couldn't get it working in JMRI but he, a lawyer, got it working in RR&Co.
And still it never reall worked - spurious occupancy sensing was the biggest problem, and it's always bneen blamed on the Digitrax hardware. I could never get the script to work, and making a mistake in drawing the track plan meant I had to pretty much just start all over, erasing back to my mistake in block numbering and then finishing it caused all sorts of weird problems. I guess I lost some faith in JMRI when I tried to help a friend automate a trolley loop on his layout with it. It seems a lot easier to do this via RocRail than with JMRI.
ROCRAIL WITH. BLUETOOTH
Possibly my other idea of a small Bluetooth add-on to any smartphone so you have the touch screen to turn functions on/off or select a loco, but an actual knob to run to control the train. The HTML interface is allowing me to experiment with my idea of a simple universal throttle using an Arduino. are intriquing to me because it's not written in Java, and writing scripts for it doesn't need Jython which if it isn't the world's worst scripting langues is in a close race for it. Their panel and also their simple HTML web interface for smartphones etc. I am giving it a shot, at least as far as using the virtual CTC panel portion - I don't think their decoder programming facilities are as good as JMRI (but I rarely use JMRO for that - I use all the same decoders so it's not hard to memorize the settings I use for all locos).