![]() In addition to the manual control of routes, these can of course also be requested and queried via Event management. If the route is blocked, it is automatically activated later as soon as the route is free. A train stopping in front of the signal will set off automatically. 3D Train Studio activates the route and sets the signals and switches to the desired positions. If the route is free and all conditions for a safe journey are guaranteed. If you have secured all routes, you can request the routes on the overview page by clicking on the arrow. Select a single waypoint of the route to determine the behaviour when activating or deactivating the route.įinally click on Back to get to the overview page of the routes.This is necessary if a signal or track contact of the route has been postponed. You can click the pencil icon and adjust or update the course of the route.Assign an optional category to the route to clearly list connected routes.A route can consist of any number of waypoints.Īfter creating a new route, you can define further details: In this case, place additional track contacts on the route and add them to the route. Tip: If there are too many branches between two waypoints, the 3D Train Studio may not be able to create a route. Click on Apply to complete the new route a complete railway operation can automatically manage switch and signal positions.Click on + to create a new route and follow the instructions.Open the routes window using menu items: View > Routes.A route always begins and ends with a signal or a track contact: At least until I get to the point of building a physical CTC machine.You can create as many routes as you like in 3D Train Studio. 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. Users can run trains directly from a computer, or have some run automatically with manual control for any others. It seems a lot easier to do this via RocRail than with JMRI. Rocrail is a freeware software package 1 for controlling a model train layout from one or more computers. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Damit ein Gleisplan in Rocrail im Automatikmodus funktioniert werden Blcke, Rckmelder und Fahrstrasse. It seems a lot easier to do this via RocRail. The HTML interface is allowing me to experiment with my idea of a simple universal throttle using an Arduino. Wie werden Rckmelder und Blcke in Rocrail angelegt. 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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