More CBUS - 2 day course

24th to 26th April 2021 (Rushden)

This course is for those already familiar with the basics of CBUS, who would like to take it further.

The course will take place in the “Goods Shed” meeting room at the Rushden Transport Museum & Railway, Rushden Station, Northamptonshire.

This course assumes that you have attended the Introduction to CBUS course, or that you already have a good understanding of the basics of CBUS, building modules and getting them working.

“More CBUS” takes you on from the basics to making more of CBUS, with particular emphasis on using the Universal CANMIO firmware as well as interlocking and other applications of CANCOMPUTE.

Topics covered will include:

Recent Developments in CBUS

Connecting to CBUS using Ethernet - the CANEther, CANPi and CANPiZero modules

More practice and setup in FliM using the FCU utility

Teaching producer events

Understanding CBUS messages

Using FCU with generic dialogs

The Universal CANMIO firmware:

Inputs/outputs and servos all on one board

Concepts

Limitations

Setting up with FCU

Using CANMIO daughter boards

Conditional events and interlocking with CANCOMPUTE

“Start of day” events

Short vs long events

Turnout feedback - real and virtual

Changing settings in the MERG CANCMD using FCU

Looking at the new JMRI node manager

Bookings are open.

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