Java Central Station

Model railway control with JCS

Experiments wich should eventually lead to automated rail road control.

Why?

To have fun! I know there are ready to go products on the market. This project is not an attempt to compeat with any of them, hence this project is Open Source so anyone can benefit.

About The Project

JCS is an application to control a model railway. It is in an early stage of development. The project mostly contains my experiments to automate my model railway.

I started this project 2019 as (and still is) a hobby to automate my model-rail layout. As I am trying to do this project beside my work, family and other hobbies it is a project with sometimes a very slow pace...

The aim of the program is to automate the running of trains on my layout.

Supported Hardware

• DCC-EX can be connected either via serial port or network
• Marklin CS-2
• Marklin CS-3
• HSI-S88 or the DIY version for feedback

Current status

Currently the following modules are build:

• A Throttle for driving locomotives
• Keyboard Screen for switching Turnouts or Signals
• Sensor Monitor to see the status of feedback sensors
• Locomotives overview (including automatic downloading of the Locomotive- and function button images) and control.
• Turnout and Signals overview (Synchronized with the CS2/3) and control.
• A Screen to edit/display de schematic Layout.
• A HAL for command Stations such that other hardware then the Marklin CS 2/3 can be used.
• First Release V 0.0.1

Screenshots

So here are a few screenshots of the Project:

Thottle / Driver Cab

The Locomotive- and function images are displayed. Images are automatically downloaded from the Central Station. Or can be manually added.

Keyboard Panel for switching accessories and viewing feedback sensor status

Sensor Monitor

Layout display

In Editmode you can draw a layout using pre defined Tiles. also the layout can be routed. (it the very first and early step for the preparation of automatic running).

Import Locomotives from a CS-2 or CS-3

TODO's (and there are still a lots of todo's...):

Currently the following features are under active development:

• Configuration screens to edit the Locomotives, Accessories and Sensors. [more or less done :)]
• Add deployment configuration for MacOS, Windows and Linux an App [more or less done :)]
• Automatically route the Layout. [more or less done :)]
• React on relevant CS-3 events like start/stop, Sensor events, Loco, Accessory, power etc events. [work in progress :)]
• Automatically run trains. [Work in progress]
• Add more Unit tests
• ...

So I hope you get inspired!

Frans

License

LICENSE

Build JCS from source

BUILDING

Contributors

Frans Jacobs

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