Spireblade Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 As my thread title says, I am losing it with Railmaster. Various issues after a decent length of time without any but I feel I need to move on to a better, more adaptable and reliable software. Firstly I am using an Elite, and not everyones cup of tea, but I like it and I am happy with it. Whatever software I choose, it needs to be able to run with the Elite as I cannot afford a new controller at this point. Any suggestions? nothing too complicated, just reliable. Cheers folks Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIMorrison Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) I would recommend iTrain Https://www.berros.eu Edited December 7, 2019 by WIMorrison 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAF96 Posted December 7, 2019 Share Posted December 7, 2019 (edited) Rocrail works with Elite and every other piece of hardware yet invented. Well documented and a lively forum. Usually updated every night and the support is excellent. Edit - what exactly are the problems you are having with RM because the majority of config problems are found to be due to finger trouble. None of this computer stuff is PnP, you have to work at it a little bit to get it configured correctly. Edited December 7, 2019 by RAF96 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spireblade Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 I have issues with Railmaster recognising the loco decoders mainly. Most are reading as UNOBTAINABLE which makes it difficult to change CV's and loco ID numbers. Nearly every loco I put on the programming track has problems with this or repeatedly attempting to get the CV values. It is taking hours to get them sorted. All because I am trying to sort out my loco list as I have changed a few old ones for new. There are other minor issues but nothing I can't handle. I am also a bit fed up with the Windows 98 style graphics but that is just my own preference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
grriff Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 JRMI is free but can be a bit teccy. I've found JRMi's DecoderPro to be very easy to use for changing CVs. It should work with the Elite https://www.jmri.org/help/en/html/hardware/index.shtml 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAF96 Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Does your Elite program normally as loss of PROG output is a known failure mode. With regard to the decoders not being recognised. You can right click on CV7 in the read decoder screen and select your decoder from a drop down list. This forces RM to load the correct CV list for that decoder and from there it should read correctly. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spireblade Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 Ahhh...thanks . I wasn't aware of that. I'll check it out. I have never used the Elite for programming, just controlling the loco's. I have always used Railmaster. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spireblade Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 I have reinstalled Railmaster and it seems to be working fine for the moment. It must have become corrupted in some way. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete the Elaner Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 52 minutes ago, Spireblade said: I have reinstalled Railmaster and it seems to be working fine for the moment. It must have become corrupted in some way. That's a trick to remember then. Glad you got sorted & thanks for posting the answer. It is nice to see a solution rather than a problem, some suggestions & then nothing. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spireblade Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 It's a bit of a ballache but thankfully it remembered my Propack and track plans. I only had to re enter the loco ID's again. It still dosen't like certain decoders but on the whole it's now fine. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAF96 Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 You shouldn’t ever have to clean reinstall RM but you should check (almost daily) that you are using the latest revision by downloading from the link on the Hornby forum RM page. The reason being that although there are puka auto-updates for regular revisions HRMS has a habit of slipping in uncontrolled micro updates usually just to add locos to the database but at times to covertly fix bugs. All very un-industry standard methodology unfortunately. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterDavid Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 (edited) Does anyone have any genuine information on the Railmaster Loco identification kit, if it's ever going to happen, etc? I recall ages (years!) ago an R number being quoted on one of the RM Web forums. I recently asked Hornby Customer Care and the best I got was a "not this year". Can anyone suggest any thing I can use as an alternative, without getting too technical, preferably PNP. I use Railmaster, which I'm quite happy with, never had any real issues - I find reading the manual helps mostly! I would like to store complete trains in hidden siding/fiddle yards and a detection system would help my failing memory! Edited July 30, 2020 by PeterDavid Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelcliffe Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 11 hours ago, PeterDavid said: Does anyone have any genuine information on the Railmaster Loco identification kit, if it's ever going to happen, etc? I recall ages (years!) ago an R number being quoted on one of the RM Web forums. I recently asked Hornby Customer Care and the best I got was a "not this year". Can anyone suggest any thing I can use as an alternative, without getting too technical, preferably PNP. I use Railmaster, which I'm quite happy with, never had any real issues - I find reading the manual helps mostly! I would like to store complete trains in hidden siding/fiddle yards and a detection system would help my failing memory! No idea about Hornby, if you see Mr Kohler, you could ask him for an answer. This might work for you, assuming the Hornby system does have the RailCom signal on the track at present. And you have RailCom enabled decoders fitted, or fit a RailCom identification decoder to those locos lacking RailCom in their decoder. Use a Lenz LR120 RailCom display unit, to indicate the address of the loco on a storage track. One LR120 per storage track will get expensive, but if you can arrange the wiring and a multi-pole switch (eg a 12-position rotary switch), you can switch the LR120 between different tracks using the switch, getting an address on each. - Nigel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterDavid Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Thanks Nigel, appreciate your reply I may have to go down that road but it could work out expensive as you noted. I know Lenz is well thought of but I used Lenz kit in the early days and had nothing but problems so I'm a bit wary. Then again, I've seen loads of complaints about Railmaster ..... Cheers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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