I've been wanting to learn about JMRI for quite a while. I have a computer (not yet hooked up) in the railroad yard office. I look forward to the continued coverage.

Thank you Joe,

Talk about just in time!

I downloaded the latest version of JMRI on my computer just a couple of hours before reading this!

At last I am going to put my LocoBuffer USB into got use. Bought it last november.

BTW, very off topic, some days ago Charlie C wrote about computing compesated grades and how John Allen made a formula. I have tried to find the page, but not succested. Can someone provide me the link?

This is series I'm anxious to see.  Come on next monday! :)

I enjoyed this segment but it is just like those old series they used to show in the movie theaters where the hero is in some kind of tight spot and you had to wait for next week's episode to see how he gets out of it.

Irv

So you've got your computer hooked to your DCC system, you've fired up DecoderPro - the sweat's beading up, the knuckles are white, the clock's running out - is the DCC system going to respond or not?

Tune in next week to find out ...

Gee - I never knew DCC could be so exciting!

Knut,

That was in the ' SHAPPING PINK FOAM '  thread,  near the end of it.  I can not find anything on this in the LDSIG thow.

I hope those who downloaded JMRI lately get the current version 2.3.4 and don't run Vista.  Vista could be your worse nightmare with JMRI.

Marc

Thank you, Marc. I found the page thanks to your guidance.

...to the JMRI Suite of applications!

And some good questions from the audience too!

I have seen Panel Pro in use at Train Buddy on a number of occasions and I even purchased the USB/Serial interface over a year ago from them, but still I have not connected it up to the layout and my laptop. 

I need to get cracking soon on this...by the time the next MRH Movie Monday installment comes around... <<<fingers crossed>>>

Direct off the JMRI discussion group!

JMRI ver 2.3.4 has a patch and runs fine on Vista.

Just ask Cartman!

I just finished entering my 68 engine roster in Decoder Pro and am awaiting the delivery of my USB interface to start programming. Decoder Pro works fine with my version of Vista Ultimate. Before you ask, "do all of my 68 engines have a decoder installed", the answer is no only 12 do, but that's another story!

Those guys at JMRI are great they have a handle on DCC and Computer interface!

As Les indicates, DecoderPro on a PC (or Mac or Linux box) is a fine way to build a database of all your decoders and their settings (make sure you back it up every once-in-a-while).

With your decoder settings all tucked away in DecoderPro, it becomes super easy to restore the settings in a decoder if it ever gets its brains scrambled. Used to be, before I installed DCC short management on my layout, that I would routinely get at least one scrambled decoder every op session following a short.

Now days, I get maybe one scrambled decoder a year. When it does happen, I just fire up the laptop, put the loco on the programming track, open up the loco's decoder file in DecoderPro, and tell it to write everything to the decoder.

Meanwhile, I can go do something else for a few minutes. 

Once it's done (usually takes less than 5 minutes to rewrite everything), the loco is back to its old self!

In a similar fashion, if I have a brand of decoder I like, it's very easy to copy that decoder's settings to the new loco I've installed it into - and shazaam! A few minutes later (while I go off and do something else) ... the new decoder acts just like its sister in which I painstakingly tweaked every single setting to get it to be just exactly what I wanted.

Yes siree, with DecoderPro you will be in DCC heaven - decoder programming doesn't get any simpler!

And did I say DeccoderPro is free? Gotta love open source ...