Hi,

easy!

create a "push button", and under "Operations", select "Switch Functions of all Vehicles", Select which function(s) to switch on/off.......

Have a nice weekend, Peder

I designed two functions for every engine. One for starting up and one for shutting down with functions available for that particular engine. Then it would only require the shut down function per engine in Peder’s solution.

Hello All,

I don't think that there's a need for all of this. In TrainController, all you have to do is assign decoder functions (i.e., horn, bell, whistel, etc.) to function keys when you create a locomotive. After that, when you specify in a particular block that the "horn" should sound, then all locos travelling through that block will activate their horn -- no matter what function key that horn is assigned for that loco.

Cheers,

Some engines have horns some have whistles. That’s why I made a function for long signal and one for short signal. Engines with no sound flashed the lights.

Hello,

Maybe I don't fully understand, but there's no need to create any "new" function. For example, my loco BR17 (LokSound) has the whistle on F2 and my BR56 (MFX) has the whistle on F3 (see pics). On my layout, when these locos approach a bridge, the whistle sounds because in TrainController I have an action item defined in the block before the bridge that says "sound whistle".

Note 1: All my ESU LokSound equipped locos have consistent function assignment because I like to have things organized -- easier to remember. However, Marklin factory equipped MFX locos are not so nice. Marklin does not adhere to an easy to remember scheme but assign functions whichever way they feel like.

Note 2: Other issues with functions is that some functions like whistles, horns and bells are sometime defined as "On/Off" and other times as "Pushbuttons". To address the inconsistencies, I created macros in TrainController for these functions. These macros turn a function ON for a specified number of seconds, and then turn the function OFF. This ensures that both the "ON/OFF" and the "Pushbutton" activations are reset when the function terminates. So to clarify, in TrainController, the actual action item defined in the block before the bridge is "activate macro whistle".

Cheers,

Hello Peder,

Why would you need to change any original functions in any of your locos? In my example above, I did not change function mapping in the Marklin BR56 MFX loco. All I need to do is assign TrainController names to loco functions -- refer to my screenshots above. As long as you assign TrainController recognizable names to decoder functions, TrainController uses those names to activate specific functions -- i.e., these names act as assigned variable.

Please note that TrainController "recognizable names" are taken from the TrainController "Library" and will depend on your command station. When configuring TrainController and selecting your command station, the command station locomotive database is imported into TrainController. That's where all the functions of all your locomotives are mapped to TrainController.

I'm not sure if I'm making a lot of sense, but I hope this helps.

Cheers,