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<h1>JMRI: DecoderPro Service Mode Programmer</h1>
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<h2 id="contents">Contents</h2>
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<p>This document explains some basic <strong>programmer tabs</strong>, and ideas on how to
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use them:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<a href="#Roster">Roster tab</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#Basic">Basic Tab</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#Function">Function Labels tab</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#Media">Roster Media tab</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#Other%20Tabs">Other Tabs</a>
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</li>
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<li>
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<a href="#Speed%20Table">Speed Table Tab</a>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="Roster">Roster tab</h3>
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<p>A roster is a database of all locomotives that your installation of DecoderPro has
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programmed. Some stationary decoders can also be added to this database.<br>
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It includes the information seen in the screen below:</p>
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<p><img src="RosterTab.png" alt="DecoderPro Roster Tab">
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The top field is labelled "ID". Each roster entry has an identifier (also called Roster
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ID) by which it's known. This is your name for it. When the program wants you to select a
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Roster entry, it will ask you to pick from a selection box or menu containing Roster IDs.
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You can use anything you want for this: Road number, type, even "That crummy old model I
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need to repaint" or "My beautiful Shay".
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<p>When the entry is first created, this ID field will contain "<new entry>". The
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program will insist you change that before you first save the entry.</p>
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<p>You can change this at any time later, just remember to save the entry to make the new
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ID permanent.</p>
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</li>
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<li>Road Name, Road Number, Manufacturer, Owner, Model, Comment and Decoder Comment are for
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you to use as you see fit. Some people put information in all of these, some in none of
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them. See the <a href="../../../../apps/gui3/dp3/DecoderPro3.shtml">help on the main
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DecoderPro window</a> for what appears there when you fill them out.
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</li>
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<li>The Throttle Speed Limit sets the Maximum throttle percentage allowed when using
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various JMRI throttle tools.</li>
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<li>The DCC Address field is the active DCC address for this loco. It comes from the
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locomotive settings, and you can't change it here. See the <a href="#Basic">Basic Pane</a>.
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</li>
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<li>The Decoder Family and Decoder Model values were defined when you created this entry
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earlier. They can't be changed. The Date Modified value is updated automatically when you
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save the entry to the roster. After the first time you do that, the filename entry will
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appear.</li>
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<li><a href="../../../../../html/apps/DecoderPro/Roster.shtml#loco_data">Locomotive Data</a>
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is an advanced feature.<span class="since">since 5.15.4</span></li>
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</ul>
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<p>The Save button stores the current decoder information to your Roster folder. The default
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storage is in the same directory the Preferences are stored in.</p>
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<p>The "Reset to Defaults" button, not a "factory reset", returns the Decoder CVs to the
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Default value that was programmed into the decoder xml file. It does NOT change the values in
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the roster file on your hard disk, unless you Save it The Values are not written to the
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decoder until you select a to write them.</p>
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<p>Most decoders will activate the Reset Menu (next to the File menu at the top of the page).
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This is the "Factory Reset", some of the manufacturer has several reset routines. It does
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this by writing directly to a CV in the decoder, CV8 in the case of Digitrax. All decoders
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may not support Factory Rest and how they work is manufacturer and decoder dependent.</p>
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<h3 id="Basic">Basic Tab</h3>
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<p><img src="BasicTab.png" alt="DecoderPro Basic Tab">
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</p>
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<p>The Basic pane is where you set the Decoder address, you can set the short and the long
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address and then select which one is Active.</p>
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<p>The items that displayed may be different for each decoder. It depends on how the decoder
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definition file was written and what options the manufacture included in the decoder.</p>
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<p>You can select the Locomotive Direction. If you want the loco to go in the other direction
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set Reverse.</p>
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<p>The Speed Steps for the Loco can be selected, usually its 28 steps.</p>
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<p>You can select wither the loco responds to DV voltage or not.</p>
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<p>You can enter any number you want into the "User id's"</p>
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<p>The Manufacture ID and the Manufacture Version ID are set in the decoder by the
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Manufacture. JMRI uses these to identify the decoder.</p>
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<h3 id="Function">Function Labels Tab</h3>
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For more on the Function Labels tab, please see
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<a href="https://www.jmri.org/help/en/manual/DecoderPro3/Adv_FunctionLabel.shtml">this page</a> on the web.
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<h3 id="Media">Roster Media Tab</h3>
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For more on the Roster Media tab, please see
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<a href="https://www.jmri.org/help/en/html/tools/throttle/RostersMediaPane.shtml">this page</a> on the web.
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<h3 id="Other_Tabs">Other tabs</h3>
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<p>The other tabs are dependent on what the manufacture installed in the decoder, if the
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options were not installed the panes are either gray or not enabled.</p>
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<h3 id="Speed_Table">Speed Table Tab</h3>
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<p><img src="SpeedTab.png" alt="DecoderPro Speed Tab">
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</p>
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<p>This panel may look different depending on how the decoder xml was built. To use the Speed
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Table CV's usually the basic speed option needs to be turned off. The little boxes under each
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slider are very useful. To see how they work check one in the middle of the table then slide
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the last slider down. Notice that the values do not change below the one you checked. They
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also do not change for steps above if a lower step is changed.</p>
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