The Q1 upgrade has arrived - and it isn't June yet.

They announced there would be a new prompt when mfx+ locos register for the first time. Too many locos were sent to Göppingen because they had run out of virtual coal, sand, or water. Version 4.2 is meant to reduce that.

It basically says "Press OK for Semi-Pro Mode or press Cancel for Standard Mode".
Semi-Pro Mode was the old default setting that causes the trouble: loco slows down when resources are out.

Press Cancel to play without refilling coal, water, and sand.

No, this has been available by the internet, direct to the CS2.

A file download , to a PC and then onto a USB , MAY be made available from the Marklin website in time.
If so it will be found at ... http://www.maerklin.de/d...nloads/software-updates/

Hi everybody

I tried to update

Failed

The cs2 informs :

error resolving temporary failed
error in rsyne protocoal data stream


I shall try later

Thewolf

Or buy an eCOS 2 and avoid all this silly nonsense..

I read on a dealer site that only the CS3 would support 32 functions. This may or may not be true.

I still hope they will add support for 32 functions to the CS2 - but maybe they reserve this feature for the CS3 to make it more attractive.

Or just remember to change it back to normal operation when you first register it, which is what I do. My first mfx+ lok entered that mode in a track section running from a 6017 booster and it was a long slow crawl to an area where it could be changed or the fuel replenished. That lesson was quickly learned.


I am hoping for that too but I bet that they will withhold if from the CS2 to try to move us all into a CS3.

Jim

It is an error in their website CMS (Content Management System). A quick "Google" on the message tells me that it seems to be an error caused by a certain extension. The Märklin website uses the Typo3 CMS and this is the extension causing the problem: https://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/dce

I bet they will have it fixed soon.

One new? function that appears to have come in with this release is that the CS2 now completes it startup by leaving the track power SWITCHED OFF.

This , I think , is a very good idea.
As the CS2 poweron/startup process can take quite a long time, it is not uncommon to be working with the layout, placing new locos and wagons on the track etc.
Also, if some layout work has been done and needs testing, you want to be close to the CS2 - which historically literally means standing there waiting, or unplugging the cable.

An , initially, frustration aspect is that THERE IS NO INDICATION that this has happened.
i.e. the STOP button is not lit to give an indication that the track power is off

No, I do not believe so. You update to version 4.x using the update function on the CS2. The Märklin website has nothing to do with that.

This doesn't happen for me!

Maybe it's a bug, and is configuration-dependent. I have seven 60174 boosters connected to my CS2, and everything is powered on when boot-up completes. This takes several minutes, though, as I have around 200 locos defined in the CS2, and you can see them being addressed one-by-one as the start-up process continues. Only when all the "live" locos have their lights on has the start-up completed.

Nigel

Just for completeness of reference on this topic ...

ref: Marklin website
http://www.maerklin.de/f...er_CS2-Version_4.1.2.pdf

Googly =
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Update for CS 2 - Version 4.1.2
The following changes will be active after installing the update:

1. A control panel for the new Goliath crane 49954 is integrated into the MFX + ® gaming world. Of the 3 motors for the various movements of the crane may have only one enabled. This has been reflected in the user interface. As resource consumption of this model has the consumption of diesel fuel.

2. Immediately is requested during the registration of mfx ® locomotives + whether the consumption should be enabled to resources (game mode Semi-Professional). If the green tick operated this mode is active, when selecting the red "X" of the standard mode, however, is chosen. So then no consumption of operating materials is enabled.

3. The loading of Lok icons via the web interface is possible again now.

4. When the system is rebooted now are the states of the feedback modules 60881 -
60883 registered first, so that an automatic operation can be started directly.

5. The mfx-registration process has been optimized. Disturbing brief mfx indications in the display are thus eliminated.

6. Also multiple installation of new data in the current retrofit decoders are now
no problem.
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Marklin USA Digital newsletter May/June issue out now included 4.1.2(3)

Attach in PDF 650KB.