![]() Oh, you do not need to connect the CS2 directly to the laptop, just to the network. The host name address of 10.0.0.11 looks strange to me. However, it does not appear that you have set up the Network IP addresses properly in RocRail. It sounds like you have identified the CS2 properly as the controller. File/RocRail Properties is grayed out.Īppreciate help in my attempt to get past step 1.Įdited by moderator 23 August 2021 07:05:31(UTC) I am unable to find this path and so believe I am not connecting Rocrail to the CS2. The comment is that this can be seen by following the link "Rocview → Programming →CBUS/MBUS". "If all went well, the CS3 is listed in the CBUS/MBUS dialog". Device is com1 and Baud rate defaulted to 50000. I also entered 15731 to the right of the Hostname. I don't see anything like a name CS3-06294. (This is what my CS2 shows as the IP address) Unlike the screenshot from the CS2.https. I entered the CS2 IP address 10.0.0.11 as Host name. Selected that entry and hit 'properties' and confirmed the Type is TCP. In the Property/controller view I entered MBUS in the box labeled New and hit 'enter'. Not sure if this means the CS2 has to be directly linked to the lap top or if I can connect through my network. Then "Note: Only direct TCP communication with the CS2/CS3 is supported in the Rocrail Forum.". Assume the instructions below still applied. This view is somewhat confusing as it states "The MCS2 library is replaced by the MBus library.". In RocRail, I go to File/RocRail Properties/Controller I loaded and opened RocRail for the first time and have tried to connect this to the CS2. I connected my CS2 to my home network via an RJ45 cable and entered the IP address into my laptop. I loaded RocRail onto my microsoft note book (windows 10) and am running into beginner issues. At least until I get to the point of building a physical CTC machine.I currently run my layout from my CS2 but looking to see if I can and want to run from my laptop So, I am quite willing to give RocRail a try, although I may end up writing my own VB program to be my virtual CTC panel, driving my homemade control system which is loosely based on CMRI using Arduinos. It's just a lot less intuitive (JMRI) when you get to that level - and I say this for someone who has been writing computer programs since I was 11 years old, back in 1977 when the TRS-80 came out. 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. 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).
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