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Decoder Pro and ESU Loksound V5 Issues Track and electrical/DCC
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Regular poster 182 posts JerryRGS Regular poster 182 posts
JerryRGS

I bought a Rapido SW1200. It has ESU Loksound V5 sound decoder installed. When I opened up Decoder Pro to change the address there are no options for the V5 decoder. It has options for V4 and earlier. Am I missing something?

Jerry
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kjd Frequent poster 575 posts
kjd

Update

I've used JMRI to program half a dozen or so ESU decoders recently and the latest version has V5.

Paul
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JerryRGS Regular poster 182 posts
JerryRGS

Have Lastest Version

I have version 4.22 and version 5 is not installed. Is there a separate procedure to update the definitions?

 

Jerry
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Michael Rozeboom Regular poster 432 posts
Michael Rozeboom

LokSounds are a little different...

The definitions are there.

Try the following:

New Loco

Read Type from Decoder

to determine which version is installed.

If you are still having issues, join the LokSound or JMRI mailing lists on GroupsIO, the gentleman who wrote the LokSound definitions is very active on those lists.

 
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CNW Chet Regular poster 133 posts
CNW Chet

 Do you have the latest

Do you have the latest version of decoder pro? You may need to download the latest version. 
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marcfo68 Frequent poster 656 posts
marcfo68

. . .

One thing about DecoderPro that can bite you.

If at any time you ran the " Rebuild Decoder Index "  this creates a NEW DecoderIndex.xml  that remains in your User folder.  Any "definitions" that are in a new release will NOT SHOW up unless you AGAIN run a Rebuild Decoder Index.

So you could update say 4.18 to 4.22 and NOT SEE the ESU V5 decoders because your system is using the DecoderIndex.xml  from the User Folder  and not the one that comes with each install / update of JMRI.

So look in your  User folder  to determine if it shows a "DecoderIndex.xml"

Depending on how your JMRI is set up, it could be in a few places depending on 'Profiles'  and if you changed the User File Location as many suggest we do.

The solution is DELETE the  DecoderIndex.xml that you find in  your  User Folder for JMRI.

Do not delete the DecoderIndex.xml that is in  C:\Program Files  of Windows.   I am not a LInux or MAC user so can not help for those.

Marc
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marcfo68 Frequent poster 656 posts
marcfo68

. . .

And JMRI 4.22 contains all 11 ESU V5 decoder defiitions plus those for LokPilot V5  along with  the  EssentialSound V5 versions. 

So I suspect yours is from confusion with ' DecoderIndex.xml  '

Marc

 
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JerryRGS Regular poster 182 posts
JerryRGS

Solved Issue

⁠Thanks everyone for you support. I ended up installing Decoder Pro Test Release 4.23.8. It had the Loksound V5 definitions. I then removed 4.23.8 and installed 4.22. It keep the V5 definitions.

Jerry
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