I have a small layout with a loop and 2 stop locations - a home stop and a midway stop. the train starts at the home stop goes around to the midway stop (stays there for 10 seconds) and then moves back to the home stop (stays there for 10 seconds) and the loop continues until the "Home Stop" button is pressed on the CS3 screen.

I have managed to write the event that does this, however, when the "Home Stop" button is pressed the train stops at the correct location however the event doesn't terminate. I tried using "stop event" which does stop the event but the event is still active.

Does anyone know how I can terminate the event with an event ?

Regards
Greg

I am not sure exactly where you find the above home stop feature nor what it does. Have to play around a bit. But one possible option is the CS3 Halt which can be added with the + button. That stops all action without turning off the CS3. It also returns the event to the start location.

Thanks fellas for the information. I can successfully pause the event, however, the event is still active and when I turn off the "Home" button the event starts up again. Interestingly, if I shut down the CS3 the event is terminated. This is what I want to do i.e. terminate the event without shutting down the CS3. In the "controls" there is a "Stop Event" but not a "terminate Event".

"Terminate Event" is just a term and could describe a number of different states. You need to describe exactly what you need to occur when you "Terminate Event". As an example, "Stop Event" precludes the event from moving on to the next action but does not remove the results of previous events such as engine speed setting. "Terminate Event" prevents any future events from occurring and resets the event to the start location but again does not undo any event settings such as engine speed setting. Admittedly the "Terminate Event" can not be entered as an event but why would you want it? What feature of it do you want?

I presume that the event mentioned is continuous but at some point the event has to stop and not continue. I really dont know the best way to do this other than just turn down the speed control to off if the loco starts up again. I run two events and they just keep going while I run the other locos manually and when finishing the seeion just hit the mstop button and switch off the CS3.

May create another virtual Article "Event" and add it to all previous events as a condition, only when "Event" is green, these events work, otherwise, all these events will be terminated.

Now when "Event" is green:
1. "Home Button" is green, train will move after a 10 seconds stop at midstop, then move again after a 10 seconds stop at home stop;
2. "Home Button" is red, train will move after a 10 seconds stop at midstop, then remain at home stop, when change "Home Button" to green, train will move to midstop again, resume all process as 1;

When "Event" is red, train will move in the loop without any stops, no event will happen.

Block events, Terminate events, Stop events are 3 options to control running events, they are not actions we add in a event to control train, turnout, signal and other articles on the layout, may get more information from help of CS3. So we will not use Block, Terminate or Stop events when create or edit content of event.

We could Block events at any time.

We could only Stop or Terminate event when it is still running, when event is finished, we could not Stop or Terminate it anymore, because nothing to be Stopped or Terminated. If we start run previous event K1, red pointer will stop before Speed 30, because we set a 10 seconds delay after Speed 0, now we can click Control then select Stop events or Terminate events. If a event is short or no delay after actions, it will finish soon, red pointer will move from left to right then back to the far left fast, no time for us to click Control and select Stop Events or Terminate Events.

Hi,

I learned a lot about the usage of CS3 from Model Train Fun.


He explains quite nicely how to do automatisations.

I used “his” method and manage the run of 5 trains automatically.

I use an umbrella macro that contains the 10 events for the trains (1 for each direction), the trigger of the umbrella macro is a light with a virtual address. When I turn on the “light”, the umbrella event goes on and when it finish turn off the light, as this is the last action of the event. Then the event will run again but only the moment I turn on the light which of course is the visible in the control desk along with the track plan.

Hope it helps!

I have been setting up block sections so I can run multiple trains on the same line. Stop at the stations etc… Using the CS3+

Each block has a contact track at the start and end with a signal also at the end.

Then I add a virtual switch that the contacts sets to red when a train is between them on the block. Green when not present.

Then I have an event that is triggered when the switch turns red. The signal on the previous block turns red. When turns green, previous turns green.

This way I can run one train per block.

I try and avoid referencing trains directly. Also find it helpful to write out in pseudocode first.

I do have an extra signal for the station, where I want the train to stop for a set amount of time. A contract track sets this one to red and then sets to green after a delay.

I have not had the issue with events not terminating. I do find the UI really difficult to use once you have more than a couple of events. Which is why I write out the logic first.

One other trick I have used is to have one train somewhere then have a macro that plays a sound. Then I add the macro to an event for debugging purposes. Really need a logging ability.

Some suggestions.