controlling some trains manually and other trains in fully automatic mode is possible. Trains can be either manually controlled or completely controlled by the software in automatic mode. If you read the Rocrail forum regarding signals you will see that everyone agrees that there is quite a learning curve in understanding how to set up the signals. Rocrail assumes all responsibilities for controlling a model railroad and their accessories. with considerable support from one of the Rocrail forum signal experts. I had to pretty well change them all over using Rocrail Actions, some scripts, etc. When I started with signals, I very quickly found out that the simple signal control using the signal tab in block/properties was very limiting and did not work well for multi-aspect signals and distant signals. Remember in Rocrail the signals do not control the train operation, they are only for show. working properly before I tackled signals. 2 years until I had all of my routes, speeds, BBT, etc. As I pointed out several posts ago, I would leave controlling signals for a later time once you have blocks, sensors and routes working satisfactorily. Main Station setup of signals and sensors.docx (215kb) downloaded 19 time(s).Īs both applor and JohnjeanB have stated you are trying to have sensors trigger signals which will not work. The signal at the right side of the station would be activated by the (yet to be added) sensor on the right - that sensor would instruct the entrance signal to turn green and the exit signal to turn red. Setup in Rocrail is done by switches ( Gate61 & Gate62 ), with a type of Accessory, and Accessory picture 11 (single barrier) set of St Andrew crosses, address 137, driven by 1/4 K84. That sensor instructs the enterance signal to turn red and and the signal at the beginning of the prior block to turn green. 3.2 Railroad crossing 1 (double track - down-left angle) addresses 61 & 62 (one address for each barrier), driven by half a K83. Rocrail assumes all responsibilities for controlling a model railroad and their accessories. I have added (so far) one sensor on the left side. Rocrail is free software for controlling model trains for Linux (Intel & ARM64) Apple macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) Windows (Intel & ARM64) PiOS (ARMHF & ARM64) operating systems. On the attached, my station block has a signal at the entrance (left side) and at the exit (right side). Besides having the above challenge, I may be misunderstanding the block concept. The Link S88 is defined in m圜S2 as TypeName 2951 and Device ID 115. I simply cannot run any Loco in the Auto Mode in Rocrail. The Tower Controller TC64 was configured using Decoder Pro Up to this point I was doing fine. I can simulate the track plan without any problem. I found it very easy to draw the tracks, turnouts, signals and the sensors. A Rocrail block does not exactly match a railway block of the prototype: Whereas, for example, the. After coming across Rocrail I thought of automating my small N layout. It is usually a group of track sections with no turnouts in them, and at least one sensor. Only one locomotive or train at a time can be in a block. I have a CS2 with a Link S88, with 2 buses with 2 S88s on each bus. A Block is a single place on the layout, where trains should stop or are at least allowed to stop. My screenshots show several Rocrail drop downs where I define the signal, block and sensor. Now, I am trying to build a block and assign a signal to a sensor. I have started to use Rocrail and have (successfully) added switches and turnouts - that is placed onto a Rocrail track diagram and able to cause items on my layout to change as desired. net/viewtopic.Hopefully the large file I have tried to attach appears. In this simple example using all and all-reverse does the trick, but when you look at the plan file posted in this topic: forum.rocrail. When I drive counterclockwise I want 2l as enter and 2r as in, but, although both routes are shown in the routes tab of the block properties, I can not change them indepently because Rocrail does not distinquish them, Rocrail only looks to the from property, which is identical for both routes. I can drive from 1 to 2 clockwise, then I want sensor 2r as enter and sensor 2l as in event. The attached plan is a very very simple example, a circle with two blocks. When there are two possible routes to go from 1 to 2 it is not possible to define seperate sensor events for these two routes because only the from block information is stored and not also the using route information. Download Rocrail from Look for the appropriate operating system in the column Description, then choose the download link left below of File. The fbevent definition in the block defioniton stores the from block information, but is does not store the route that is used to go from block 1 to block 2.
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