Rivarossi with Loksound bell doesn't work

[richhotrain]

As a Friend of Michael, here's to Mark and Randy.  

Good work, guys.

Rich

[Mark R.]

That's great ! .... been holding my breath all day !

Cheers ! ....

 

Mark.

[Motley]

Ahhhh Molsen is good beer too.

I had sent Hornby a tech support question. They responded on Friday, with "You can change it with a lok programmer, but without one, its going to be difficult."

I just now responded, with a nasty email stating that they made a bad decision the way they insisted wanted ESU to have the sound come on at startup, with no easy way to modify it.

I wonder why loksound just can't give a check box in JMRI for startup sounds. Just like QSI and Tsunami.

[maxman]

Motley

IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!! Ahhh much much better now.

So, now that you have the sound adjusted such that it will not turn on until you press F8, what happens if you're running the engine and there is a momentary power disruption, such as a short?

Assuming that you don't touch the speed setting, when you get the power back does the loco continue to run with sound, or do you have to press F8 to get the sound back???

[rrinker]

 Awesome!

I know there was a thread a while back on the JMRI Yahoo Group about the Loksound V4.0, trying to come upw ith a way to represent all those possible function definitions, which is why the definition currently looks liek it does, with just a ton of boxes basically replicating the chart in the manual - no real 'simplification' as commonly seen in JMRI. I can see the merit in limiting optiosn to those commonly used,which woudl suit us just fine, but then what about European users of JMRI and the decoders, where they don;t need F1 to be the Bell, so it ends up being the sound on/off. To effectively handle all teh settings in JMRI might require another pane that looks more like the page in Lokprogrammer - although even that is sort of spread across 3 sections when you combine the F key to sound slot mapping plus the F key to physical function output mapping plus the F key to action mapping.

The Loksound V4.0 is kind of liek the non=programmer equivalent of what the Digitrax decoders are - you can change literally EVERYTHING in the DIgitrax decoders, but you need to write code to the processor, not set CVs. Loksound V4 allows you to change pretty much everything about the decoder, by changing (a lot) of CVs instead of learning how to program the microcontroller.

           --Randy