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1. #Rocrail raspberry pi how to
2. #Rocrail raspberry pi mac os
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4. #Rocrail raspberry pi mac

I put all electronic stuffs here so, It's not borthering original post. I will post all hardware I used in my test layout tomorrow. Sorry, for my broken English, hope you can get some idea. I plan to make 2 - 3 different train parking pattern in my next layout. In my case, I programmed the train to park at 1st platform for 20 second and let another train pass the station at 2nd platform track. This is actually the way you want the station to response to incoming train (from the nearest connected block) So base on your layout,you can program speed of train in any track for example when climbing up hill that want more power or slow down when passing station. You can program voltage level by using PWM setting in arduino. This can be achieved by using two voltage levels, for normal speed and parking. Train detection and track power control programīasically, if the train is on an N track, the N-1 track power must be at lowest level that stop the train but still has enough current to detect the train. Power supply for all all train and controller.ġ. Power IC (UN2003) for track power control using PWM.Ħ. IR sensor for detecting train head position at station.ĥ. Bi-direction Motor control module for Turn-out controlĤ. Track occupancy using Current sensor module. *due to I/O point limit on Arduino, you can have maximum 16 block per board.Ģ. The layout is DC layout, Following list are main components for the project. If you need the trains running in two directions, you need two separated loops. Jettisoned the fans! Really the only thing that’s gone wrong with the systems in 12 years except one touch screen going after 10 years, but to its credit it was an Apple 24” that had a touch screen added to it and those screens were not designed for touchscreens.įirst, I must say that this layout has some limitation, it’s one way layout. Then again 3 years later and then I put a temp recorder in the cabinet and checked a few days without a fan and damn if it wasn’t within a few degrees of the ones with the fan. Damn if the fans started making noise after a couple of years and replaced them. I put vents i the top and bases for conductive cooling in the cabinet and a good quality 5” computer fan in each cabinet just to be safe, but never bothered to check to see if needed.

#Rocrail raspberry pi mac

One exhibit that’s been going 12 years now has passively cooled Mac minis in small cabinets along with a hd video digital playback unit. We never bothered with stinkin boxes as just heat traps. They guys using them did it empirically just attaching a heat sink to the processor and it stayed cool. Mainly they do looping videos and some simple interactivity so pretty low power activity.

#Rocrail raspberry pi how to

It also allows you to create, plan, or edit layouts, without a physical connection to a certain layout being needed, using the Rocview feature.

#Rocrail raspberry pi software

Rocrail is a powerful and comprehensive software tool, being able of supporting a wide variety of controllers. Due to this architecture, you will be able to remotely control a train layout using any computer or mobile device, via the Internet. These two communicates over TCP/IP, eliminating the need for them to be installed on the same machine.

Rocrail consists of two parts: the server software and the client application. Rocrail is capable of controlling model train layouts from one or multiple PCs, giving you the power to run trains manually or automatically, or even to configure some trains to run automatically while you manually operate others. Rocrail is multilingual software, being able to support a wide variety of languages, including Dutch, French, English, German, and more. This tool is Open-Source and completely free.

#Rocrail raspberry pi mac os

Rocrail is a cross platform and innovative software application which acts as a Model Railroad Control System, being able to run on Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows and Raspberry Pi powered machines.