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hwestl		#1 Posted : 13 April 2017 16:28:35(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 13/10/2007(UTC) Posts: 82 Location: Ystad, Sweden		I bought this little add-on board to a Raspberry Pi2 from ifoedit, to connect the two to the trackbox of a MS2. I have started to make my own program to control it from my PC, but my problem is that the doc of the CS2 CAN bus protocol from Märklin (can be downloaded using CAN bus protocol) is in German, and I have "some" problem understand it. I have downloaded a program with source code from r-serwe.de and used that understand how it works. Same thing here, all comments etc are in german... But it works, I can make simple commands. Changing speed or switch on functions is reflected on the MS2. But I would like to understand more of the protocol. Anybody knows if it's available in english anywhere? Thanks Håkan For me, this is a great board, making it possible for me to use whatever I want to control the trains, the MS2, a PC, a tablet or a smartphone

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kiwiAlan		#2 Posted : 13 April 2017 17:16:58(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 23/07/2014(UTC) Posts: 8,509 Location: ENGLAND, Didcot		Originally Posted by: hwestl I bought this little add-on board to a Raspberry Pi2 from ifoedit, to connect the two to the trackbox of a MS2. I have started to make my own program to control it from my PC, but my problem is that the doc of the CS2 CAN bus protocol from Märklin (can be downloaded using CAN bus protocol) is in German, and I have "some" problem understand it. I have downloaded a program with source code from r-serwe.de and used that understand how it works. Same thing here, all comments etc are in german... But it works, I can make simple commands. Changing speed or switch on functions is reflected on the MS2. But I would like to understand more of the protocol. Anybody knows if it's available in english anywhere? Thanks Håkan For me, this is a great board, making it possible for me to use whatever I want to control the trains, the MS2, a PC, a tablet or a smartphone I have this google English translation that I have attached. It is a web page, so you need to unzip it into a directory, then open the web page. CS2 CAN Protocol 2-0 Translated_files.zip (356kb) downloaded 187 time(s). You still need to use the pictures from the German one, as Google didn't include the pictures in the translation.

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rbonet		#3 Posted : 13 April 2017 19:43:30(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 01/02/2009(UTC) Posts: 147 Location: Barcelona, Spain		Hi Håkan, I've the same setup as you. It works very well with Rocrail. I've also tried it with Märklin CS2.exe and with Freewald's RR&Co. For the CAN protocol I've the same problem as you, there is not an english version and even the german one is not complete. [edit] By the way, you don't actually need the MS2. Regards, Rafael
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eroncelli		#4 Posted : 18 April 2017 11:16:47(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 16/02/2011(UTC) Posts: 124 Location: Bergamo - italy		You might get some useful hints from RocRail Forum (www.rocrail.com): just search for "mgbox" or "Arduino" or "RasPI"

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Moritz-BR365		#5 Posted : 27 April 2017 13:20:44(UTC) Retweet
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hwestl		#6 Posted : 02 June 2017 13:51:57(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 13/10/2007(UTC) Posts: 82 Location: Ystad, Sweden		I found out a nice and cool feature using this setup with a MS2 and a Raspberry Pi2. The MS2 can handle only 10 active locs, easily selectable, and then you you can have others that are "rolled out" with the "Lok freigeben/Free Loco" function. Total of 40, if I interpret the manual correctly (Interner Speicher für 40 locomotiven/40 internal memory locations) Using the PC-program or my own Android-app, I can also control all locs that have been entered but rolled out. I have added 12 locs, and I had no problem controlling a loc that was rolled out using my app. I can now easily select any of my 40 locs of the MS2. After I have added them, of course

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hwestl		#7 Posted : 26 June 2017 17:31:48(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 13/10/2007(UTC) Posts: 82 Location: Ystad, Sweden		Today I found out that I don't have to add the locos to the MS2. It's enough that I have them in my app. I just putted a "not registered loc in the MS2" onto the track, added it in my app, and could control it directly. Even better

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Moritz-BR365		#8 Posted : 27 June 2017 07:26:22(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 02/04/2013(UTC) Posts: 683		Originally Posted by: hwestl Today I found out that I don't have to add the locos to the MS2. It's enough that I have them in my app. I just putted a "not registered loc in the MS2" onto the track, added it in my app, and could control it directly. Even better Hello Håkan, is Your own app available for download, e.g. as apk-file? Regards, Moritz
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hwestl		#9 Posted : 27 June 2017 10:07:15(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 13/10/2007(UTC) Posts: 82 Location: Ystad, Sweden		Hej Moritz Well, not really. It's pretty hardcoded with my locs. From the start I had some thoughts of having it generic, but as time went on I made some shortcuts to make it easy. Mostly regarding the pictures. I can see if I can do some changes in the future. But it's also things like functions. I have only made it available for 10 functions (F1 - F10) since I don't have any loc that has more functions. And then the screen is adapted to my phone, Sony Xperia Z5 Compact But anyway, this is the main screen and one can select loc using the drop down list. Regards Håkan

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Moritz-BR365		#10 Posted : 27 June 2017 13:43:41(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 02/04/2013(UTC) Posts: 683		Originally Posted by: hwestl Hej Moritz Well, not really. It's pretty hardcoded with my locs. From the start I had some thoughts of having it generic, but as time went on I made some shortcuts to make it easy. Mostly regarding the pictures. I can see if I can do some changes in the future. But it's also things like functions. I have only made it available for 10 functions (F1 - F10) since I don't have any loc that has more functions. And then the screen is adapted to my phone, Sony Xperia Z5 Compact Hello Håkan, this looks nice. I would like to test if it runs together with the BananaPi solution. What development Environment do You use? Regards, Moritz
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hwestl		#11 Posted : 27 June 2017 16:12:08(UTC) Retweet
Joined: 13/10/2007(UTC) Posts: 82 Location: Ystad, Sweden		Originally Posted by: Moritz-BR365 Hello Håkan, this looks nice. I would like to test if it runs together with the BananaPi solution. What development Environment do You use? Regards, Moritz Hej Moritz I'm using Android Studio on a PC. I can send you the source code of my project if you want to. Regards Håkan

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