ICE3 will place a window on your track plan. This is for Railcom. Your ECoSDetector has 4 track blocks, 1, 5, 9,13 that are Railcom aware. If your loco decoder has Railcom built in, like LokSound, LokPilot or Zimo turn on, then when the loco goes into this block, the loco information will show up in the window. The other detector blocks don't have Railcom so you can't use the window option on those blocks. Digitrax decoder use transponding which is not compatible with Railcom.
Thanks John. Hopefully the NMRA gets on the ball soon for making Railcom a standard part of DCC. I know thats what they want to do but I think they are holding back because of American companies being difficult. Like NCE they don't work very good with Railcom. The locomotives go rogue they don't listen to the DCC controller. I have to keep that option turned off. Digitrax works fine all except there's no information about the locomotive that is sent to Railcom. But thank you very much for clarifying on what that ICE3 is.
Thanks Vinny. Sometimes trying to explain about a system like this can be hard. I hope its help full to some people. This system is awesome and powerful. I swear if I hook up my coffee maker to it the system would make me coffee!!! LOL. P.S. Amazing job on the scratch build. A++
Hey Ronald, Thansk for the question and its a great one. As of the version that I have, thats an unfortunate no. The only way to view you track plan is through thenpages that it has. But that would be a great and usful option. Stay safe and all the best.
@@HobbyAdventureYT I suspected as much Tim, and I may have to redesign a part of my track diagram to accommodate the EcOS limitations. Right now I have my 4x8 11-turnout Kato N scale layout "crammed" on one screen. My yard is near the center of a double main perimeter track and constitutes 5 of the 11 turnouts. I may just move the yard to a second screen with a pointer to/from it. Should not be too difficult as I already have all of the turnouts labelled and programmed in the EcOS. On another note, I too use the older Digitrax DS64 decoders and find them totally reliable and a breeze to program. I also found enough extras here and there on eBay for future expansion. Keep making videos, they are very informative... 👍👍👍
ICE3 will place a window on your track plan. This is for Railcom. Your ECoSDetector has 4 track blocks, 1, 5, 9,13 that are Railcom aware. If your loco decoder has Railcom built in, like LokSound, LokPilot or Zimo turn on, then when the loco goes into this block, the loco information will show up in the window. The other detector blocks don't have Railcom so you can't use the window option on those blocks. Digitrax decoder use transponding which is not compatible with Railcom.
Thanks John. Hopefully the NMRA gets on the ball soon for making Railcom a standard part of DCC. I know thats what they want to do but I think they are holding back because of American companies being difficult. Like NCE they don't work very good with Railcom. The locomotives go rogue they don't listen to the DCC controller. I have to keep that option turned off. Digitrax works fine all except there's no information about the locomotive that is sent to Railcom. But thank you very much for clarifying on what that ICE3 is.
hi Tim... very interesting program... looks like it works very well.. thanks for sharing.. vinny
Thanks Vinny. Sometimes trying to explain about a system like this can be hard. I hope its help full to some people. This system is awesome and powerful. I swear if I hook up my coffee maker to it the system would make me coffee!!! LOL.
P.S. Amazing job on the scratch build. A++
Is there a way to view the entire layout on the screen, perhaps reduced in size, even if that view is not editable?
Hey Ronald,
Thansk for the question and its a great one.
As of the version that I have, thats an unfortunate no. The only way to view you track plan is through thenpages that it has.
But that would be a great and usful option.
Stay safe and all the best.
@@HobbyAdventureYT I suspected as much Tim, and I may have to redesign a part of my track diagram to accommodate the EcOS limitations. Right now I have my 4x8 11-turnout Kato N scale layout "crammed" on one screen. My yard is near the center of a double main perimeter track and constitutes 5 of the 11 turnouts. I may just move the yard to a second screen with a pointer to/from it. Should not be too difficult as I already have all of the turnouts labelled and programmed in the EcOS.
On another note, I too use the older Digitrax DS64 decoders and find them totally reliable and a breeze to program. I also found enough extras here and there on eBay for future expansion.
Keep making videos, they are very informative... 👍👍👍