#Rocrail vs jmri full version
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#Rocrail vs jmri for android

RocRail consists of two different parts: A server (RocRail) and a client (RocView). So in practice this does not make a big difference compared to JMRI. It has however been done in a ways so that RocRail is compiled for several operating systems. That makes things a bit simpler regarding direct access to operating systems and hardware. And there seems to be a Java version that is limited the same way as the Android app. In addition, there seems to have been a WEB interface at some point in time. The Android version is free, but will only run for 5 minutes, unless you donate a sum and obtain a key. The one for iPad costs 69 DKK, and there is no free version.

#Rocrail vs jmri for android

RocRail also has apps for Android and IOS. RocRail should however be better at LocoIO programming than JMRI.

I am assuming that is only while programming decoders. It is being critisized for not supporting very many decoder types. RocRail seems to be more of an effort to make a true competitor to the commercial model railroad control software products. And it means a lot of layers of library code, before getting down to the hardware, such as PC sound, USB ports, harddisk etc. It does hoever not make anything faster вЂ“ especially not start-up of the software. That is in principle a good choice ensuring that it runs on many operating systems. I will have to deal with the rest using Uhlenbrocks somewhat basic software. But there is supposed to be a LocoIO programmer in JMRI. How things are with Loconet programming is until further unknown to me. And that seems odd, since decoder programming is supposed to be one of the things that JMRI is really good at.

#Rocrail vs jmri Patch

I have had to patch it to make feedback as well as switch control working.ДЄnd DCC decoder programming is not working at all via IB-COM. The big downside to JMRI seems to be that the IB-COM interface doesnвЂ™t seem to work. I cannot see what the big difference between the two versions is, but I suspect I am going to find out, if I start using the light edition.

#Rocrail vs jmri full version

The iPad version has a free light edition, whereas the full version costs 65 DKK. JMRI has a free throttle app for Android.

#Rocrail vs jmri generator

There is also a thing as interesting as a sound generator for locomotive sounds, so that locomotives without their own sound decoder can ge sounds anyway. JMRI seems to be a big library of basic software (programmed in Java) with interface to a lot of different command-stations, a lot of decoder definitions, some decoder programming capabilities, built-in scripting capabilities as well as some more or less unfinished applications for layout visualization, automatic dispatching of trains etc. There seems to be two serious candidates: JMRI that I have already been looking at and RocRail that I have also installed on my PC and has seen вЂњhole throughвЂќ in. And Windigipet seems to be another serious candidate.ДЇree software (Open Source Software, OSS) seems to be the way to go for me. It costs between 100 and 500 Euro depending on version. I have heard about a program called RR&Co. And it would make me even poorer than I am already. Even the smallest bug in the program would be impossible. The down-side would be that there will be no chances to write additional modules myself and not even to tweak the existing functionality. And I would expect easy-to-use and well-working software. But the price will be that it will take several years before I know enough details about all protocols, such as the Uhlenbrock PC interface, DCC and Loconet and before I have utilized such knowledge to actually write the software for both implementing these communication protocols as well as the application code to visualize my layout and the control code to actually run trains., switches etc.Д«y buyingВ commercial software, I would expect to get going very fast. If I am writing it all from scratch, I will have full control about all details.