Railcom; Railcomplus; Requirements For Railcomplus; Firmware Update - Esu LokSound 5 Installation And Operating Instructions Manual

Railcom & Firmware Update
17. RailCom®
RailCom® is one of the company Lenz Elektronik, Giessen, developed
technology for transmitting information from the decoder back to the
command center.
The following information can be sent tral back to the Zen of the locomotive:
Locomotive address: The decoder transmits on request by "Broadcast" his
address. This can be detected by a tector Gleisabschnittsde-. The control
panel can find out so where the locomotive is current.
CV information: The decoder can provide feedback about all CV values ​ ​ p er rail
Com® to the headquarters. A programming track is no longer necessary in the
future.
Meta data: The decoder can send information such as current engine load,
motor current, temperature, etc. to the central back.
Thus RailCom® work all decoders and the command station must be
equipped accordingly. Sound decoders are hardware RailCom®-ready, but it
is u. U. a firmware update is required to activate it.
RailCom® must be activated prior to use by means of Bit3 CV29. 28 offers
further settings. Ex works RailCom® is on 5 decoders in LokSound.
17.1. RailComPlus®
With RailComPlus®, equipped decoder log in automatically accordingly
prepared RailComPlus®-centers. You will never need to change the
locomotive address a new locomotive manually! Put the locomotive just on
the track and it will be automatically detected. In addition, the name, a
function key symbols and the nature of the functions (permanent and
momentary action) will be transferred. And all this happens in a matter of
seconds without LAN ge wait!
17.1.1. Requirements for RailComPlus®
RailComPlus® requires an appropriately equipped Digitalzentra- le. The ESU
ECoS supports firmware version
3.4. RailComPlus® -enabled decoder. You need to make to your decoder no
changes. He will be recognized automatically.
Of course you can freely change and then write back to your decoder the
locomotive name, function keys symbols all radio and locomotive symbol. This is
all done fully automatically in the background.
If you do not want the automatic detection, you can disable this by deleting CV
28, bit 7th

18 Firmware Update

LokSound decoder can always ware with new operating software (so-called.
Firmware) are provided. In this way, fixing bugs and implementing new
functions. The update can not be removed from the locomotive be made by you,
the de coder needs to do so. You benö- term only the LokProgrammer. The
LokProgrammer software will keep your LokSound decoder up-to-date. A
separate download is no longer necessary. In our service department carried out
firmware updates advertising the not considered a warranty repair, but are
subject to a charge.
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