WiThrottle Turnout Control with DCC++

Rob H Feb 19, 2018

  1. Rob H

    Rob H TrainBoard Member

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    I discovered yesterday that the WiThrottle App can as control turnouts, something that doesn’t seem too widely publicised, and the manual on there website doesn’t say much. However it does say: “If there are no turnouts (or routes) in the list, the control screen is hidden in the app” which is probably why I didn’t realise it existed. It also talks a little bit about setting up the turnouts in JMRI.

    Now my question is two fold;

    1) Has anyone got WiThrottle turnout control to work with DCC++?

    2) If so did you have WiThrottle talking the DCC++ base station or were you running JMRI as well?

    One of the things I currently like about WiThrottle is that it talks directly to my DCC++ base station for locomotive control and I don’t need the laptop connected for basic running (I’m running Mark Underwood’s modified DCC++ code) having to have it just for turnout control seems a bit overkill if I can avoid it.


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  2. RCMan

    RCMan TrainBoard Member

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    Only works with JMRI having the turnouts setup in JMRI and can operate the turnouts with the DCC++ also.
     
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  3. Rob H

    Rob H TrainBoard Member

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    Thanks, looks like I’m stuck with the laptop for now but will definitely look to run JMRI on a Raspberry Pi at some point in the future.


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