Last night I pulled out my video tape that came with my chief system some years back. I wanted to watch it and see if there were some things that I had forgotten. The guy doing the video made mention several times that you could use an old remote control as a utility throttle. He never said exactly how to do this. So, I went searching Digitrax site and Google. No luck so far. I do have the IR receiver panels on our layout.
Has anyone done this? Is it really doable? Info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Bre2tSco2t
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I sent an email to Digitrax about this and here is their reply.
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It was an idea that never bore fruit and to my knowledge doesn’t exist.
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Thanks for reading.
But, since Digitrax loves to support homebrew experimenters - someone HAS gone out and done somethign similar. See http://embeddedloconet.sourceforge.net/. This is not something for the electrical novice, but the end result is a TV remote can run trains.
In my opinion, this is only slightly better than the Lenz use of a cordless phone as a throttle. At least a remote control usually as 4 arrows of some sort so you have something a little more logical for forward/reverse and faster/slower. The not as friendly operation, plus the fact that the regular Digitrax throttles have IR capability (even the ones without radio), is probably why they never made a product out of this idea.
–Randy