Remember, to manage locos you'll need to start and connect to the web server on the throttle.
Refer to Throttle setup.
Click the green + icon to add a new loco config.
A window will open where you can enter the details of the new loco.
- Enter the loco address in the field with the #.
- Enter a loco name in the Loco Name field, this is just for your reference so can be anything (Max 20 characters).
- The last option is a dropdown, by default a loco will have buttons for functions 0-28 but you can create re-usable function sets or have a custom function set per loco.
Each loco can have a custom function set.
If you have more than 8 rows of buttons paging will be enabled and there will be 7 rows per page.
Each row can have a max of 4 buttons.
Start by dragging in a row, click and hold the button with the arrows then drag it into the black area.
You can now drag in a button, click and hold the middle blue button and drag it on to the row.
New buttons will use the next highest available fn #.
Clicking the button will expand it so you can change the FN number and if it's a latching function or not.
After making any changes remember to click the green tick icon so the changes are saved.
If you've made changes you wan't to discard then click the red X.
For more advanced options click the icon to the left of the FN number.
From here you can set the button labels, colours and icons for Idle and Pressed.
Clicking the icon circled in red will toggle between the Idle and Pressed states so you can preview.
Click an icon to select it, click it again to deselect it.
Rows can be dragged and reordered by clicking and holding the below icon that is at the end of each row.
Remember a row can have a max of 4 buttons
Reusable function sets can also be created.
This is useful if you want to create a function set for a specific decoder that's used in multiple locos.
The function set name is for your reference.
This will be the name that will appear in the dropdown when managing a loco as above.
Functions are created as per the instructions above.
There's also an upload icon (next to the +) so if a new decoder function set gets added to GitHub you can upload it without needing to take the SD card out.
Here you can create loco groups that will show when the By Group button is pressed on the throttle menu.
Each group on the throttle will display as a button.
Pressing a group button will then list the locos within it.
You can then press a loco button to control that loco.
To add a new group click the large green + icon.
This will add a new blank group.
Enter a name in the Group Name field (Max 20 characters).
To add locos click the small green + icon on the group.
This will open a new window where you can either enter loco addresses manually or select existing locos the throttle has a config for.
Click the Select button to add the locos to the group.
Locos in the group will be listed below.
If the throttle has a loco config it'll use the name otherwise it will show as Name Unknown.
Locos in the group will appear in the same order on the throttle.
They can be reordered by click holding a dragging.
Loco groups can also be reordered by dragging.
To save on display space a loco group is loaded as collapsed by default.
You can expand/collapse a group to show the locos by clicking the arrow icons.
You can upload your own icons to use with the function buttons.
These need to be 24bit bitmaps with max dimensions of 30x30.