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JMRI and DecoderPro what hardware do I need?

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[quote user="RDG1519"] An Ahah! moment. The DecoderPro will communicate via the DCC control system. This is not the way the LokSound works. David, thanks as well I hope it wont cost 270.00! Thanks, Chris[/quote]Well. I use JMRI, USB Ports with XP Pro SP2 and a machine that I built. Com 3 hardware drivers installed. A Locobuffer Interface connects to my Digitrax Loconet (Actually the DCS 200 Command Station but... still part of the loconet) and from there to the track.The computer probably ran me about 3K (6 rebuilds in 4 years), DCC system 400 more and whatever engine I stick onto that track a few more dollars.The software was open and free, the drivers easily found and not too much in way of issues. I like to run the JMRI in what is called "Simulated Loconet" and poach the CV's it coughs up and tap it into my engines.At first I wrote sheets directly to the engine. Then I ran into a crappy MRC Roundhouse 2-8-0 that sat there like a bumpkin on a log. So... back to simulated loconet to hammer CV's into that brick of a engine. Gonna not be long before I replace that decoder.Once you learn to use Simulated Loconet in your preferences menu, you will be able to see the CV changes that occur and enter it using whatever DCC system that is capable of programming without the need to hook the track to the System and thence to the computer.I tend to stick with QSI to keep my life simple. I recall Lok sound has thier own charts for the Reading T1 4-8-4 when I owned it and it had nothing to do with any of my other engines.That is one reason I prefer QSI, they have pretty much everything down to (Literally) the last bit in binary.It does get a little scary when you have a ABBA in a consist and each of the engines know thier names and properly verbally reading back values being input.Oh the possibilities.
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