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More CBUS - Weekend Course

5th to 7th June 2021 (Rushden) (Postponed from 24th-26th April 2021)

It became clear that we cannot have confidence that things will have become safe enough, with restrictions lifted sufficiently, to run this course on the April 2021 date we had originally hoped.

So we have taken the difficult decision to reschedule it yet again to the date in June shown above.

This course is for those already familiar with the basics of CBUS, who would like to take it further.

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. If you already have such a booking, you will be contacted by email with latest updates.

This course assumes that you have attended the Introduction to CBUS course, or that you already have a good understanding of the basics of CBUS, building modules and getting them working.

“More CBUS” takes you on from the basics to making more of CBUS, with particular emphasis on using the Universal CANMIO firmware as well as interlocking and other applications of CANCOMPUTE.

Topics covered will include:

  • Recent Developments in CBUS
  • Connecting to CBUS using Ethernet - the CANEther, CANPi and CANPiZero modules
  • More practice and setup in FliM using the FCU utility
    • Teaching producer events
    • Understanding CBUS messages
    • Using FCU with generic dialogs
  • The Universal CANMIO firmware:
    • Inputs/outputs and servos all on one board
    • Concepts
    • Limitations
    • Setting up with FCU
  • Using CANMIO daughter boards
  • Conditional events and interlocking with CANCOMPUTE
  • “Start of day” events
  • Short vs long events
  • Turnout feedback - real and virtual
  • Changing settings in the MERG CANCMD using FCU
  • Looking at the new JMRI node manager and alternatives to FCU.

Bookings are open.

You can download more details and the booking form below:

More CBUS course 2021 details

Enrolment form for More CBUS course 2021

These courses are organised by a group of MERG members for the benefit of other MERG members and railway modellers in general. Your booking is directly with the course organisers, not with MERG itself.

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