Although these courses are now both fully booked, we expect to run them again in the future - watch this space!

Starting out with JMRI Panel Pro

The recent JMRI course at Missenden sold out very quickly, so by popular request we are re-running this course, not once but twice, hosted at the Warley Model Railway Club in Birmingham and at the Nene Valley Railway Study Centre, Wansford near Peterborough.

The dates are shown above. In both cases the course takes place over a weekend with an optional extra workshop day on the Monday, to apply what was learnt over the weekend. The course will start with arrivals from 4pm on Friday.

This course assumes no previous knowledge of JMRI.

Topics covered will include:

• Downloading and installing JMRI
• Getting JMRI connected to your layout
• Monitoring messages
• Overview of JMRI - the various components
• Where to find help and documentation
• Driving trains with JMRI throttles and wireless devices
• Designing a layout diagram and control panel using the Layout Editor
• Setting up control of turnouts & signals
• Detecting sensors
• Turnout feedback
• Customising icons for your layout diagram
• Using other devices, such as Ipads, tablets etc, to access the control panel
• Setting up Blocks and Routes
• Block detection and train tracking
• Demonstration of Signal mast logic – automating the signals *
• Demonstration of the dispatcher for automatic running *

* These two topics will be covered in detail in the follow-on JMRI course “Working towards Automation with JMRI”. That course will next take place at Missenden in October 2016.

We will use CBUS as an example layout connection for practical sessions and demonstrations, but the principles learnt can be applied to using JMRI with any system. You will be able to carry out each of the topics on your own laptop whilst we are all connected to the demonstration layout.

Please note that this course does NOT cover programming locomotive CVs using Decoder Pro.

More details here:

Starting out with Panel Pro course details - Warley 22-25th April 2016 - FULLY BOOKED

Starting out with Panel Pro course details - Wansford 13-16th May 2016 - FULLY BOOKED

Although these courses are now both fully booked, we expect to run them again in the future - watch this space!