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Proto Throttle
KPack:
I don't think Ring's architecture would be set up for Protothrottle, nor do I think they will give up Railpro's operating code to do so. It just doesn't seem likely to me.
Regarding Mac support, Railpro works fine with Bootcamp. Hearing from another Railpro user, my understanding is that Max OS comes with Bootcamp and doesn't cost anything. Lots of programs don't have Mac support. Back in grad school half the class had Mac's and they all had to use Bootcamp in order to run some of the programs the school used. Just part of the game.
RPA isn't the greatest interface in the world, sure. But the last time I used JMRI it was....bad. Talk about clunky. Yikes.
Didn't the internet thing get resolved with RPA? I thought I remember there being some sort of resolution with that.
-Kevin
G8B4Life:
--- Quote from: KPack on April 21, 2020, 10:42:34 PM ---I don't think Ring's architecture would be set up for Protothrottle, nor do I think they will give up Railpro's operating code to do so. It just doesn't seem likely to me.
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You've hit the money of the head with the second part I'm sure. The first part I'm not sure how they would be able to get it to work anyway; the ProtoThrottle in it's normal sense talks to a command station using a wireless adapter specific to that brand. As we know RP has no separate command station for it to talk to so it would have to directly communicate with LM's as the HC does. The trouble then becomes how do you set up an LM and the ProtoThrottle so when you pull the horn lever on the PT for example the LM knows to play the horn sound.
--- Quote ---RPA isn't the greatest interface in the world, sure. But the last time I used JMRI it was....bad. Talk about clunky. Yikes.
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But at least someone could design a cool interface for JMRI if they really really wanted to, with RPA that's not possible for the masses, only Ring himself, and it appears he thinks it's fine.
--- Quote ---Didn't the internet thing get resolved with RPA? I thought I remember there being some sort of resolution with that.
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Yep, it did get fixed. I think Jacobs visits here are so infrequent now compared to many of us that he could be missing stuff.
- Tim
William Brillinger:
--- Quote ---and zero fix to whatever issue the Hugh's net guys are having.
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The satellite issue was fixed earlier this year.
As far as RailPro working with ProtoThrottle, it could easily be done on the software side but I don't think Ring is willing to adopt the Open license that is required to sell the interface.
TwinStar:
--- Quote from: KPack on April 21, 2020, 10:42:34 PM ---I don't think Ring's architecture would be set up for Protothrottle, nor do I think they will give up Railpro's operating code to do so. It just doesn't seem likely to me.
Regarding Mac support, Railpro works fine with Bootcamp. Hearing from another Railpro user, my understanding is that Max OS comes with Bootcamp and doesn't cost anything. Lots of programs don't have Mac support. Back in grad school half the class had Mac's and they all had to use Bootcamp in order to run some of the programs the school used. Just part of the game.
RPA isn't the greatest interface in the world, sure. But the last time I used JMRI it was....bad. Talk about clunky. Yikes.
Didn't the internet thing get resolved with RPA? I thought I remember there being some sort of resolution with that.
-Kevin
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I've run both Bootcamp and Parallels. Pros and cons to both for sure but right now I'm not running either. To be fair, Mac support in the MRR community is zero so Ring isn't alone there.
RPA is the worst. While RailPro is the best, by leaps and bounds, RPA is a D- afterthought. It's an embarrassment to sell someone on RailPro and then have to bring up the RPA caveat. As dysfunctional as DCC and JMRI are (and you're absolutely right about JRMI Kevin) Rings RPA is equally as bad. In my opinion, RPA offsets almost all the benefits about the ease of use in RailPro.
Glad to hear the Hughs thing got fixed. I think I remember seeing something about that now but age and memory. I got into a disagreement (friendly one) with my neighbor yesterday about what day it was. He was correct, I was off a day.
TwinStar:
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Yep, it did get fixed. I think Jacobs visits here are so infrequent now compared to many of us that he could be missing stuff.
- Tim
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Sorry about that. I've been focused on building my passenger car fleet and my modules. I haven't opened a loco or dealt with RP in quite some time. I did buy the speakers that KPac recommended awhile back but once they arrived they went into the drawer. It is good to see some new faces around.
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