I just received my CS3 this weekend and connected an external keyboard and mouse through the USB ports. All is responsive and working. I updated the software to latest version, updated my MS2’s to latest version, can use iPad through the build in web server, and have no problems at all so far. Even got a shuttle service using the L88 and 2 contact tracks working. Simple exercise but it helped me to understand how Maerklin integrated the concept of triggers and functions. Very happy so far and ready to dive into more complex events and use cases. There is however one slightly annoying issue I have. While the keyboard on the CS3 shows to be in a QWERTY layout, the connected keyboard is interpreted as a German layout keyboard, so it is with the QWERTZ layout. The Y and the Z are switched. So, when I type the word playground by example, it thinks I type plazground. I tried to find a setting to tell the CS3 to use QWERTY but I can not locate it. Anyone noticed this as well and how did you resolve? Thanks in advance for the help.

Edited by user 25 October 2021 21:07:40(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

keyboards are generic, the software has to know what keyboard layout the user is expecting. Sounds like Märklin assumed all users would expect German layout. They should be using their internal keyboard layout to switch the external keyboard too.

Missing translation strings is different then a keyboard layout in that it is set within the Linux environment that the CS3 is built upon, not in the application. Language selection will get you closer but it isn’t one for one. There should be a keyboard layout option so you can set it to US or FR or DE or any other country where keyboard layouts differ from QWERTZ which is the German default.

But it really isn’t a huge issue. In fact, I came already to the same conclusion as Jean describes in that a mouse is very useful, but the external keyboard not so much.