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<h1 id="Top">The Basic Programmer</h1>
<h2>Basic Pane</h2>
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<p>You may have noticed that at the top of the window are Two tabs: <strong>Roster
Entry</strong> and <strong>Basic</strong>. We have completed the <strong>Roster
Entry</strong> pane of the Program window, now, click on the <strong>Basic</strong> tab to
change panes to continue with programming your decoder. The <strong>Basic</strong> pane will
be displayed and look similar to the following illustration: Many panes in the programmer
contain decoder dependent features, as a result what you see may not exactly agree with what
you see here. Only those variables that your decoder can implement will be shown.</p>
<p>Below is a screen for OEM decoder that is used in the <strong>Athearn FP-45</strong>
locomotive.shown in factory settings, which is normally address 3<br>
.<img src="images/Basic_Program.png" alt="basic pane" height="557" width="642"></p>
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<p>You will see three options you can change, highlighted in yellow:</p>
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<li>The decoder address (should be unique among your locomotives, unless you are operating
several as a set) often the locomotive number is used.</li>
<li>Two radio buttons that let you toggle between 2 digit (one byte, "Normal") or 4
digit<br>
(two byte, "Extended") addressing</li>
<li>Analog operation (enables the decoder to run under regular DC voltage/analog<br>
control) Enable Analog Operation with caution, as some decoders will jump to full speed
resulting in a "Runaway locomotive" if they are enabled for Analog Operation and encounter
power spikes on a DCC digital signal. They seem to get confused, and revert to Analog
operation and use the full track voltage DCC power to take off and GO! There is no stopping
them without removing layout power. Very disturbing to your operating mates, but better
than running into them at full tilt.</li>
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<p>To enable Analog (old style DC, some vendors refer to this as dual mode) Operation
select the appropriate entry from the drop-down list.</p>
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<p>The yellow highlighting indicates these options are "probable" settings and have not been
confirmed from the decoder. Settings that have been changed by the user and have not been
written back to the decoder appear in a orange color. You will see examples of<br>
this throughout the manual.</p>
<a id="ReadData"></a> To read the actual settings for these options (and IF your system and
installed decoder will allow readback of decoder values), click on the <span
class="textbutton">Read full sheet</span> button. The individual
settings will turn red while they are in the process of being read (clever, eh?), and will
turn white once the values have been read successfully from the decoder. Once again,
DecoderPro must play "Twenty Questions" to get this information, and sometimes even has to
ask a couple of times.
<p>Be patient, especially with older computers. At the very bottom of the pane (where it says
"idle") you will see a running account of exactly what DecoderPro is doing, for example, the
specific CV being read.</p>
<p>Again, the <span class="textbutton">Read full sheet</span> and
<strong><span class="textbutton">Read all sheets</span>
functions are dependent on your command station. If your system does not have the capability
to read CVs, then these buttons will not be available.</p>
<p><a id="EnterEditData"></a>If you wish to change the address of the locomotive, type in the
new address. To turn on or off 4 digit addressing, select the desired radio button. . Be sure
that the address type agrees with the number of characters in the address.</p>
<p>When you are finished, click on <span class="textbutton">Write full sheet</span>
to write the new values in the decoder.</p>
<p><a id="WriteData"></a>Writing usually takes much less time than reading, because the value
can be sent directly. As the write operation proceeds, the data will change from yellow to
white. If there is difficulty writing to the decoder, the data will change to red. The
software will automatically keep trying until the write operation is successful. In some
instances the system will "time-out" after a certain number of tries without an
acknowledgement from the decoder. This does not necessarily mean that the values have not
been written, just that the program has not received an acknowledgement. This can be due to
the locomotive moving and getting on dirty track so that it can't pulse back, or possibly
because the command station or decoder cannot read back. Try moving the loco and try again.
If it is a command station or decoder read-back issue, try the loco on the mainline and see
if the programming was successful.</p>
<p><a id="SaveData"></a> To finish this "basic" programming of a decoder, click once more on
the <strong>Roster Entry</strong> tab, You will see that the address field has now been
filled in, so you can now click on the <span class="textbutton">Save to roster</span> button.
Your new decoder settings have now been written not only to the decoder, but also saved to
a computer file where they may be recalled in the future.</p>
<p>I have programmed the address for this locomotive and clicked on the Write full sheet
button to send the address to the command station to program the decoder. Note that the
status line keeps you updated as to what is writing and should finish with OK, which is good
or an error message which usually meant the write was not completed. All the entries are now
in white color as they match the decoder.</p>
<p class="dp-center"><img src="images/Basic_Address.png" alt="basic address" height="556"
width="636"><br>
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<p>Now that we have entered the Roster data and set the desired address, lets return to
DecoderPro Main window by closing the Programming window.</p>
<p>Notice that we now have a list of all the locomotives programmed so far that are in our
roster.</p>
<p><img style="width: 900px; height: 425px;" alt="main" src="images/Main_01b_main.png"><br>
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<p><a id="DoMore"></a>What we've done so far is what is available in the Basic mode of
programming in DecoderPro. Which is basically put Locomotive in the roster and assign an
address. A good place to start for new folks or at a club. It's hard to go wrong, but you can
change the loco address and add it the roster, which are the two most often needed actions
with programming.<br>
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The classic DecoderPro offered a number of modes, most of which were often redundant and
confusing showing how the user could edit the underlying file to make special application
programming modes. The Comprehensive Programmer was the most popular for a long time until
Advanced came along with added features. So now they've been combined in DecoderPro. Thus the
Comprehensive Programmer with added Advanced features is the only other programmer that
DecoderPro offers.<br>
Since we've already covered <strong>Basic</strong>, let's explore the DecoderPro <a href=
"Comp_Setup_Roster.shtml">Comprehensive Programmer</a>!</p>
<p>Select the Locomotive that you want to program in Comprehensive Programmer, then double
click on selection to open Programmer.</p>
<p>At the bottom of the window is the <a href="RosterMedia.shtml">Labels & Media</a>
and<a href="dp3_Main_Throttle.shtml">Throttle</a> buttons. Use these buttons to set up the
Icon photos for your roster entries and to set up the Function Labels on the software
throttle included in JMRI. Click the links that we've included and take a look.</p>
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