Glad to help but coding can be too addictive. Hope you don't need a 12 step program to help you over come it :)
Have a look at the Sprog website at http://www.sprog-dcc.co.uk/download.shtml and look at the "SPROG II User Guide (version 2 and earlier updated...
Geoff posts regularly on MRH and can be contacted via his profile on that site.
John Can I suggest you look at the work of Geoff Bunza published at MRH for ideas? A list of his work is given at...
It is a pure DCC system and uses WiFi talking the JMRI WiFi Throttle protocol. So the WiFi handset can talk to any JMRI system and/or the TSC DCVC...
This freeware software can be found at https://sourceforge.net/projects/switchwithit/?source=directory
@Keith Ledbetter Sorry but the PI is running JMRI. The PI is running the Linux operating system which is different to the microcontroller systems...
The free magazine MRH has an article in the March 2017 issue about setting up DCC++ . Link to get article...
@french_guy Click on the "Clone or download" button in the DccPlusPlus base station page and select download...
Greg The button to start a new thread is called "Post New Thread" and on my web browser is just below the search box
Have a look at Dave Bodnar's DCC Power Booster http://www.trainelectronics.com/DCC_Arduino/DCC_Booster/index.htm for another approach
This post explains it http://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?threads/dcc-hardware-motor-shields.90314/#post-960418
Ah, I just saw the link to instructables which said 18km as part of the URL but now that I have actually followed the link to the article it is...
David, 18km range, you must have a really big layout to need that :)
@Transitguard The only person on this discussion to try the Seeed shield is @hoyden who posted once here...
Try installing an early version of the IDE say 1.6.6 and see if the checksum error still exists. Sometimes IDE updates break things. But before...
Dave Does this Sparkfun page help? https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/esp8266-thing-hookup-guide/installing-the-esp8266-arduino-addon
@tz3p9v Gregg has written a front end program called Controller and is available from the website https://sites.google.com/site/dccppsite/ or...
@David Bodnar that's the same shield that I had ordered from China and is on the slow boat here. Total cost was $5.20 (£3.49) so good to know it...
@Steve S The guy in the video is @David Bodnar who is posting in this thread too so you never know he may feel like trying to implement it with...