![]() Tip: The names of the plan objects are shown if the mouse is moved over them. With a click on the sensor symbol in front of the destination block seen in driving direction the enter sensor of block 01 is virtually triggered. The tracks that belong to the route from block 04 to block 01 are also illuminated yellow. Then the next one, in the example block 01, is automatically selected as destination and therefore marked yellow (status: reserved, step 2). The locomotive is started by double-clicking on the block symbol. In other cases, the steps must be carried out from a different starting block. In the following example, it is located in block 04 (step 1, see figures below). Loco E03 is - depending on the version of the demo plan - located in one of the blocks. Next the track power ( or ) and auto mode ( or ) are switched on. It should be made sure that no sensors are activated. Now the loco can virtually drive around the layout. It will be explained later on that blocks can also be equipped with only one sensor or with additional sensors. The enter sensor informs Rocrail that a locomotive has entered the block, the in sensor is the signal that the loco has now completely moved into the block. Each time the first one, lying in front of the block symbol seen in driving direction is the enter sensor, the second one is called in. On the wikidemo layout each block is equipped with two sensors. See Supported Command Stations for a list. Only a few other Command stations do support sensor simulation. I will have some fun with the Rocrail connection … I hope you may have some fun with it too.Note: Sensor simulation is working with the Virtual Command Station. ![]() On the ECoS at the configuration – settings 1 – throttle tab set the tick mark to ‘Enable loc takeover’.After some trial and error I found that I needed to do two things: It is IMPORTANT to enter the exact same name here (ID) for the loc as it is used on the ECoS, elso it won’t work! Also, in the ‘Interface’ tab we can set the correct address.Īfter I entered these names exactly as spelled on the ECoS … it did not work. When we right click one of the locs in the list of the demo layout, we can enter the ‘Properties’ window. If it does not … well … alas some trouble shooting will be needed then. Now click the top entry that says ‘Power On’ and check if the ECoS track power goes on. Go to the menu ‘Control’ and enable communication (second entry). Here we need to enter our ECoS IP address as well as the default port number, which is 15471. Click it and then click the ‘Properties” button below the list. At the bottom you find a dropdown list with all available controllers. Go to the menu ‘file – Rocrail properties’ and select the tab “Controller”. Now we need to connect to our ECoS first. ![]() The Rocrail sever should start and the demo layout should appear. ![]() Just suppress that impulse and click the lower right ‘select this folder’ button. I was a bit confused at the start, I wanted to click one of the subdirectories in the list. To do that, goto the menu ‘files – workspace’ and find the …\My Documents\Rocrail folder. The server is started once we select a so called ‘workspace’. This is called the Viewer client, it connects to another part of Rocrail, the server. When we click it, an empty Rocrail window opens. After install we should have a Rocrail icon on our desktop. Rocrail can be downloaded for free (you can donate) from their website: Install is straightforward. A video is out on how to connect the ECoS to the control program called Rocrail.
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