 Joined: 26/07/2011(UTC) Posts: 73 Location: Portland, Oregon
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My Central Station 1 (60212) was diagnosed to have a bad screen by a Marklin/ESU technician. However, he assured me that the motherboard is fine. Assuming that the motherboard is indeed okay, can I still use the Central Station by connecting it to my PC?
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Joined: 25/07/2001(UTC)
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Yes, the display should not affect the actual operation of the unit.
I myself have a CS1 (60212, not "ESU reloaded") that I connect to the CS2 via the
home network and it works fine even though the display was a bit damaged due to an
accident with tripping over cables so it fell to the floor and made the display more or less unreadable... |
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 Joined: 12/12/2005(UTC) Posts: 2,448 Location: Wellington, New_Zealand
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Originally Posted by: cwp_marklin  ...can I still use the Central Station by connecting it to my PC? To make the connection you will need to know the IP address and mask of the CS If you can use the screen enough to see these fields in the configuration menu then OK. If not I suggest asking the technician to specifically set it to an address/mask that matches your PC network. I do recommend a fixed address rather than a DHCP (dymanic) one allocated by your router. Just make sure it is outside the DHCP range, in order to avoid conflicts. |
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 Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,480 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot
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Originally Posted by: clapcott Originally Posted by: cwp_marklin ...can I still use the Central Station by connecting it to my PC? To make the connection you will need to know the IP address and mask of the CS If you can use the screen enough to see these fields in the configuration menu then OK. If not I suggest asking the technician to specifically set it to an address/mask that matches your PC network. I do recommend a fixed address rather than a DHCP (dymanic) one allocated by your router. Just make sure it is outside the DHCP range, in order to avoid conflicts. Yes, although if it is set up as a DHCP device then you could look at the devices table in the router to find its IP address. Once you have that then you can make a connection to it, but the router table will laso give you the network name, and using that it doesn't matter how the address is set up, it becomes the job of the router to find it 
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Joined: 26/07/2011(UTC) Posts: 73 Location: Portland, Oregon
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Thank you everybody. This information is extremely helpful. Chris
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Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,480 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot
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Originally Posted by: cwp_marklin Thank you everybody. This information is extremely helpful. Chris Also note that, after I asked the question, someone reported that the new CS2PC program also connects to a CS1, so that may also give you a way to use it. Check the thread over here for more information. Note the answer to my question about using it with the CS1 as there could be some gotchas, but should be worth a try.
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