Post #1090868

2026-04-12 01:21 UTC

@gulfie@mastodonapp.uk Whats your DCC central? I always find it a bit weird when they make you do these calculations. I use homebrew LocoNet sensor boards and I just configure them with a portion of the LocoNet address range. In my software (not JMRI) I just configure each sensor directly with its address. It doesn't need to know what type of boards I have.

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@gulfie@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-12 09:58

@rainynight65@aus.social I have a Digitrax DCS210+ at the heart of my system and whenever you add one of their boards you have to go through a process to assign an ID to it. When I started adding YaMoRC boards there was no mention of either assigning an ID or calculating the ID(s) that would be generated (based on the first accessory address you give the device). When I started monitoring LocoNet traffic via a third party windows app used to program the signalling boards that’s when I noticed that the YaMoRC boards had an ID (sometimes two) and that in some cases it overlapped with some that I had explicitly assigned. Turns out that YaMoRC derives the IDs, hence a bit of a re-number yesterday. I’m now in the middle of drawing up some documentation on everything because by I have 11 sensor boards and 10 accessory boards, and I need to properly track what does what and on what addresses, so that I can update JMRI, which will then start working properly again…

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