Hi Märklin friends,

Reading all about HW & SW levels of the CS I unpacked mine (purchased in Feb. 2007 as part of starter set 29851) to check the levels. The display reading is <u>HW 1.1</u> and <u>SW 1.6.134</u>.
In all the previous entries in this thread I recall to have seen no higher SW level than 1.6.45.
I wonder if I am the only one having that higher level, or am I checking in the wrong place?
For comparison reasons I noted a kind of serial no.: <u>mfx 000487b0</u> from the label attached underneath the 6212 itself.
Comments are welcome, please.

Thank you. So we are all looking forward to get an downloadable update within a couple of months!

I just got it and i have not test it thoroughly yet, but i must admit that i was feeling "MRR naked" without it, all that time.

"Information about the Update for the 60212 Central Station

Dear Madam/Sir:

To date, we have been able to update successfully about 10,000 Central Stations, item no.60212. Due to the great demand, the electronic circuits for the hardware update will not be available again until April / Mai of 2008.

Please advise your customers that until that time only the software update can be carried out for the Central Stations. We will deliver the hardware including installation instructions and suitable connecting hardware later. These can easily be plugged from below into one of the two expansion slots.

The software update enabling the customers to have normal operations and offering improved control features is of course still possible.
We regret very much that we cannot currently carry out the update completely. Since the software expansion offers many additional possibilities, we have decided to take this stepwise solution. We hope you will understand."

'Nuff said...

In the Esu ECoS forum you can see that update 1.06 has been download about 2700 times. That suggests that in MRR-land the CS is much more popular than the ECoS (which I don't really understand myself, but don't take that remark as flamebait).

René - playing with Rocrail and Railroad & Co TC -

I am a little puzzled over this part of the information note. Is M* now talking of local update - will deliver hardware - easily plugged in -

We could all have done that, if the the hardware update is that simple.[^]

Still then the software issue remains open. We saw how our friend NEV got his CS back hardware updated but without the corresponding software loaded. It had to go back. [xx(]