STARTING OUT WITH JMRI PANEL PRO WEEKEND COURSE
12th to 14th June 2021 (Rushden)
The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden
Station, Northamptonshire.
Any bookings for our 2020 course that we were not able to run at Rushden, will be honoured for this course in 2021.
JMRI is free software that you can download to control your model railway.
This course assumes no previous knowledge of JMRI.
Topics covered will include:
Downloading and installing
JMRI
Getting
JMRI connected to your layout
Managing
JMRI profiles - and where
JMRI puts your files
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
Using internal sensors for control
Placing sensor icons on the layout diagram
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 automatic running *
* These two topics will be covered in detail in the follow-on JMRI courses.
Please note that this course does NOT cover programming locomotive CVs using Decoder Pro. For that, see the Introduction to DCC course.
Bookings are open.
You can download more details and the booking form below:
Starting out with JMRI Panel Pro course 2021 details
Enrolment form for JMRI intro course 2021
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