are there any current sites up for internet controllable model railroads ?? used to be internetmodelrailroad.com, but it shows as no longer up ???
I remember one year’s ago that was in Germany. It had two different scales, N and HO I believe. You could go to the site and there would be a camera view of the room. You would click on an icon and the train would do a loop. Both scales were on the same table and you could run both at the same time.
I would visit and it would be in the middle of the night there with no one in the room but they would leave it turned on.
been trying to find one thats up on a regular basis for a while now … the other site used to be up pretty regular, but that was a while ago now
I found a thread in here from 2014, but the link to the site: Internetmodelrailroad.com is no longer up and availiable.
Some DCC operators run their trains with wifi, which can use just about any type of device as a controler, phone, computer, Ipad, etc.
Google the topic, you’ll find many other devices and article.
Mike.
the wifi control ones allow only fairly local access [albeit wireless], not quite what i’m looking for … i’m looking for someting that allows control several hundred miles away, to several continents away …
[Y] Good luck! I don’t understand the “why ?”, as to wanting to control a layout that is in another country, or state, or town, or wanting your layout to be controled by someone else from a long distance, but I wish you luck and as always…
Have fun!
Mike.
it’s actually for another user [at another forum], but thanks
I believe this can be done using JMRI. Don’t ask me how [:)].
Simon
In principle, you could use a VPN to tunnel either a typical ‘WiFi’ control stream or the actual digital content of DCC across the ‘Internet’ to an appropriate bridge that reproduces the signals in the appropriate way locally.
There may be latency concerns if the actual Internet routing involves satellite hops, so one of the low-latency streaming protocols might be used to ensure quick end-to-end packet streaming rather than just regular TCP/IP.
okay, that makes sense to have the DCC commands on the ‘layout’ end … much faster that way … latency -shouldn’t- be too much of a concern as the highest portion of the bandwith would -probably- be the video stream ??
isn’t this really a question about a current layout that has a web site allowing trains to be controlled thru it. presumably it wouldn’t allow anything stupid to be done
we had remote op-sessions during covid using engine driver on phones and a custom app that showed train location. JMRI has something like it
The owner of Onondaga Cutoff who lives in New York state has done web controllable sessions in the past. I haven’t seen him post in a while. Hs Conrail railroad is a very nice representation of Conrail south of Syracuse in the ealry 1990’s.
If you are controlling another layout over the internet with cab-view, that could be kind of fun.
Controlling trains with god’s-eye-view from overhead cameras would seem less interesting to me.
-Kevin
yes, the example that i had listed did not have ‘cab view’ options … rather it had several camera locations that could be switched at the remote users choice …
Im with Mike on this one…
Why?
Better hope Gomez Adams doesnt find the link!
PMR
so far i haven’t found a single layout that is internet controlled … i guess the idea has come … and gone …
I think that there are probably some layouts that could be controlled via the net, especially during an operating session.
But I would also suspect that participation would be restricted to a select few, not just any Tom, Dick, Harry, or wvgca who might happen to come along.
Funny stuff, Thanks for the laugh [:D]
I think on facebook.
i found the layout on facebook, but he is not set up for internet or any type of remote control …