DecoderPro is a tool for programming model railroad DCC decoders. It works with the most common DCC systems: Digitrax, EasyDCC, Lenz, NCE, SPROG, Wangrow and Zimo.

It provides a simpler user interface, grouping together choices and using text instead of bits and bytes.

Requirements:

· Mac OS X 10.1.5 or higher
· Requires that Java communications libraries be installed
· For information on installation, including the order in which other libraries need to be installed and URLs from which to download them, please see http://jmri.sourceforge.net/install/MacOSX.html


What's New in This Release:

This is a test release. Please post a note if you encounter any new or old bugs! And please back up your JMRI files before installing this, in case you want to go back to an earlier version.

This is the next in a series of test versions that contains long-awaited new features, particularly numerous decoder updates, improvements to signaling logic, and greatly improved support for the Digitrax PR2 programmer and it's sound files.
· Some of the changes involved are quite extensive, and may require a certain amount of experience before they are working well. Therefore, this test version should be considered experimental.
· New warnings for this test version:
· Older warnings from this series of test versions:
· The "LocoNet Hexfile" protocol name in the preferences has always been a poor name. This is changed to "LocoNet Simulator" in release 1.7.3 to better reflect it's purpose. Some documentation may still contain the old name.
· On Mac OS X, JMRI 1.7.3 and later uses Java 1.4 if it's available. This may result in some small cosmetic changes, but should resolve several bugs in the user interface. Also, Mac OS X is now being distributed as a disk image (DMG) file. To install it, double click on the file to mount it, and then drag the resulting JMRI folder to the Applications folder.
· For Lenz users: There are now separate choices for each of the serial-based Lenz Computer Interfaces (i.e. the LI100,LI100F,LI101F). Since release 1.7.3, to aid in backwards compatibility, all the interfaces currently have the same options as far as port speed is concerned. Eventually, the port speeds which are not supported by each interface WILL be removed. If you're using one of the interfaces listed above with this release, please check your configuration and select the correct device-specific option. There is no impact for LIUSB users with this change.
· We have added additional information to the roster files in this version to help properly handle short/long addressing in systems that allow low addresses (e.g. 65) to be either short or long addresses. The only current system we support that has this capability is NCE. If you have an NCE system, and you have locomotives with addresses of 127 or less, you should open their roster entries in DecoderPro, check that the proper short or long address is selected, and save them again.
· Indexed CVs will not be included in any printouts for this release.
· QSI CV 56.129 Engine ID Access is not supported in this release.
· While programming QSI decoders in Ops mode, it is necessary to disable CV 62 QSI Control (Verbal Acknowledgement), otherwise the writes will fail.
· QSI CV 64 CV Numeric Verbal Readout currently does not work for indexed CVs.