Having played around with JMRI for a couple of weeks, I have managed to install it exactly as I wanted.
Firstly, I bought the NCE USB interface and got all that working on my iMac
2. I defined a panel and turnouts to interface to my Heljan/Walthers DCC turntable
3. Set up WiThrottle on my iPhone.
4. Got all of this going in a great way.
I then picked up a cheap laptop on Ebay - it c
Hi, SBX
That’s a great success story and terriffic find on the laptop. I have my JMRI running on some old Dell Optiplex computers that my employer was getting rid of. (one is XP the other I upgraded to WIN7, they both run JMRI flawlessly)
I have been a fan of Decoder Pro since the very beginning. I use Digitrax and even with the DT400 throttles I still do ALL my programming on Decoder Pro. I was so impressed I made a donation to their cause!
http://jmri.sourceforge.net/donations.shtml
I also use a Sprog II in the workshop, http://www.sprog-dcc.co.uk/
The only headache I ever had to deal with was when I wiped out my hard drive and I THOUGHT I had my roster backed up but I lost the disk it was on… SO I had to re-enter about 125 locomotives back into the roster one-at-a-time! Lesson learned! Make TWO backups!!
Happy modeling, Ed
I put all of my JMRI files in my Dropbox folder. That sorts out backups for me!