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Decoder Pro 3 for windows 7

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Decoder Pro 3 for windows 7
Posted by yankee flyer on Friday, December 14, 2012 9:35 AM

Is anyone else having trouble with Decoder Pro 3 on windows 7? I'm switching from a Mac book to a new laptop and DP3 is not working as well as the old set up.
It seems to be having trouble reading the decoder. If I click to "stop reading all sheets" DP3 just keeps on reading and the only way I can stop it, is to shut down and restart DP3. Reading a DZ125 was snail slow. It did get the decoder ID and some CVs before I got tired of waiting.  It would read a CV twice and list "error no loco". I'm not sure how many CVs the DZ125 supports but not stopping when I click stop is a pain in the.   Grumpy   Oh, and when I tell it to stop the Power Cab goes blank. It never had a problem with Mack Book.

Thanks for any insight.

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Posted by Stevert on Friday, December 14, 2012 10:12 AM

I use JMRI, always the latest test release, on both Win7 64-bit (layout and home office computers) and Win7 32-bit (old Thinkpad) with a Digitrax PR3 and have never had any issues. 

Having said that, the best place for discussing JMRI is the list on Yahoo.  The developers as well as a very helpful bunch of JMRI users hang out there and can give you authoritative answers and information:

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jmriusers/

(Since it's the Holiday season I'll leave out the jokes about MACs or NCE  Laugh )

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Posted by owen w in california on Friday, December 14, 2012 2:24 PM

Lee: Unfortunately, I am having problems too.  Yesterday I downloaded the instructions from the JMRI website, and followed them judiciously last night. I was unable to get an address to stick on either of a couple of decoders.  In fact, it intially lost the address the decoder had, and then it refused to take a new one, even 03. 

DP was showing it was writing to the sheet, but no change seems to have been saved. 

So, I cannot help, but only commiserate with you.  See you on the JMRI chat, I suppose.

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Posted by simon1966 on Friday, December 14, 2012 3:42 PM

I have been using DP3 on a Win 7 Laptop connected to my program track via a Digitrax PR3 for quite some time now and have found it to perform very well.  What are you connecting the PC to for connection to the program track?  It may be a driver issue for the device you are interfacing to rather than an issue with your PC of DP3?

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Posted by yankee flyer on Friday, December 14, 2012 4:37 PM

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I'm using the NCE USB adapter. Do I need a different driver when switching to the windows 7 ?

Sigh

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Posted by rrinker on Friday, December 14, 2012 5:28 PM

 Which version of JMRI do you have installed? I thought I saw some issues with NCE in a few of the intermediate versions, or maybe that's just the new firmware update. While normally I'm fairly adventurous on new software (I installed Win 7 on the day it was released to manufactuering - work laptop, and the files were made available on the day it was released, so I had it installed and running before the average person could dgo out and buy a copy), I stick witht he last official production release of JMRI and so far have not had any trouble. So unless you are prepared to help out with testing things, I'd stick with the last production build, NOT the lates build, just to avoid headaches.

 I've not had a problem, across 5 different pieces of hardware, with Win 7 64-bit. I don;t even bother installing 32 bit windows any more. They SAY on the JMRI list that it doesn;t matter, but I've gone tot he Java site and downloaded the 64 bit Java install (if you just visit java.com with your browser, it's probably just the 32 bit Java). I haven't installed Java 7 yet, oh wait, wrong, on this my very newest computer, it does have Java 7. I install both - this is what the developers tell me is unnecessary, but hey, JMRI has always worked, so... 

 As for a new driver - did you install ANY driver? Downloading the latest fron NCE can;t hurt, but if it was at least for Vista it should work with Windows 7.

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Posted by yankee flyer on Saturday, December 15, 2012 11:47 AM

Randy Hi

I'm using Decoder Pro 3 on a  Windows 7 laptop and I just downloaded Java update. I tried 3 times to download the correct driver which didn't help. I removed said drivers after they didn't help. 
The program now runs but is goofy, it splits CVs  and reads them as CV52.14 or CV 53.2.1 and sets there grinding away at all these decimal points.      Bang Head  The next check is to go back to the old Mac Book and see if it still works. 

I know it's hard to diagnose a problem with out seeing it.  Sigh

Lee

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Posted by rrinker on Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:04 PM

 Those are like indexed CVs such as on a QSI decoder. Not right for a DZ125 or any other Digitrax decoder. I haven't messed around with DP3 much, I still use the original DecoderPro interface (DP3 is really just a different view of the same data). Have you tried launching DP isntead of DP3 and see if it's any different? And the first sanity check - does it read from the throttle fine? If the throttle doesn't work, neither with JMRI.

        --Randy


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