Little dramatic heading.. probably this will provide a good laugh or smile for many of You…. And perhaps teach some to think twice…
I have a permanent layout with 3 levels. Run by a cs3, turnouts with decoders and a lot of S88 with feed back contact. Automation built up to run 5 trains.. and I was happy with it. Now i wanted to install some homemade(3d printed) signals for decoration only. Trains ar fully controlled by events. I installed a M83 to control signal colors(red/green and orange) AND in installation process happen to tell cs3 to define new adresses… and it did for the whole thing. Trying to restore from old saved settings makes it a little bit better, but adresses for turnouts are not working… for most. I cannot find my handwritten list with adresses and turnouts are screwed down and access for som difficult. Assume I have used all 3 types of decoders but think I defined adresses with dip switches. When you are finished laughing… any idea how to rectify? My best proposal is to define a long list of turnouts in cs3 (in available adresses) an see what triggers the various turnouts.
Regards

Stupid TIE in Norway

Only soothing… I made the thing and I can do it again😂

Good qustions but no answers. I intended to let the cs3 via event set the m83s outputs one for each LEDs as you would with illumination in a building or street lights. And yes I might have all three types of turnout decoders but as said I think adresses where set with dip switches. Meaning adress in decoder is locked…. But then the adress used in CS3 for the various turnout are changed. 4 is still working the orhers not

The turnouts are all equipped with local decoders(inside the turnouts) in addition to that i have some s88 for feed back from contact tracks. The mentioned M83 was first of many to be installed to control LEDs in my signals. Home made with 3d printer. I assume I can configure the M83(black type) to set current on or off based on signals from cs3.
The whole mess startet when I tried to register one of the M83s to the cs3 and pressed the button to obtain new mfx adresses for the whole system.

Do you have a mobile station? If you do you can then do one switch at a time and have someone go around the layout to identify which switch is being activated. In the future I recommend, as I have done many times in here, that you save the layout in the CS3 and in a thumb drive. You should do it before any changes to the layout so you can get back to the status before the change if it goes to hell.

No, with the MS2 you just flip through the solenoid address range and can activate each address as you go. This can save a lot of time if you try the trial-and-error approach.
Note that tests may have to be made for both DCC and MM protocols unless your DIP settings allow one protocol only.

There are at least two types of switch decoders. The older ones could only set the address manually. The newer mfx ones can set the address electronically. I still set the address of the mfx ones manually. It sounds like you have both and the computer reset the mfx ones, a problem I thought might happen.