DecoderPro®

• Quick Tour
• Some Details
• Configuration Files
• Working with the Roster
• FAQ
• JMRI Setup

Advanced

• Intro to XML files
• Create your own decoder definition
• Create a custom programmer definition
• Store/update a Roster
• Locomotive (Roster) files
• Debugging
• Sharing Rosters among computers
• Updating decoder definitions

Applications

By the community of JMRI.org:

• DecoderPro®
• PanelPro™
• DispatcherPro™
• OperationsPro™
• SoundPro™
• Apps with JMRI connections...
• Jython Apps for JMRI...
• FAQ

Tools

JMRI tools for working with your layout:

• Common Tools:
  • Throttles
  • Turnouts
  • Lights
  • Sensors
  • Signaling
  • Consisting
  • Reporters
  • Memory Variables
• Blocks:
  • Blocks
  • Sections
  • Transits
• Routing and Control:
  • Routes
  • LRoutes
  • Entry Exit (NX)
  • Logix
  • LogixNG
• Other:
  • Audio
  • CTC Tools
  • Fast Clocks
  • ID Tags
  • Speedometer
  • Timetable
  • Virtual Sound Decoder
  • Where Used
  • Permissions
• System-specific...
• Web server tools...

Layout Automation

Use JMRI to automate parts of your layout and operations:

• Signaling
• Warrants
• Dispatcher
• Routes
• LRoutes
• Entry/Exit Routing
• Logix
• LogixNG
• Scripting
• Automate with Java
• CTC Tools

Supported hardware

JMRI supports a wide range of devices, DCC systems, command stations, networks, and protocols.

JMRI Setup and Installation

JMRI environments...

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux (multiple vers)
• Raspberry Pi OS on Raspberry Pi
• Debugging an installation

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JMRI: DecoderPro User Guide

Sharing DecoderPro Rosters across a Network

The information on this page is somewhat dated in terms of file locations, Preferences settings and a recommended solution. For more up-to-date information see Using DropBox.

I have a computer at both my workbench, where I program my engines, and one at my layout location. They are not portable, but all the PC's at my house are networked together (Windows XP clients and a Windows 2000 Server). I would like to store the roster and all else that is needed on the Windows 2000 server and be able to run copies of DecoderPro on at lease two of the Windows XP PC's. Is that possible?

Configure the Windows machines so there's a shared directory, and then you can set the JMRI "advanced preferences" to put the roster information inside that.

1. Set up a shared directory.
2. Select which roster you want to start with (since there might be separate ones on different machines already). On that machine, find the "roster.xml" file and "roster" directory in the preferences directory.

   For more information, please see the DecoderPro pages on the roster files and file locations.

   Copy, _do not move_, the roster.xml file and roster folder to the shared folder. You must copy the _entire_ contents of the roster directory!

3. On each machine that is to use the shared roster, start DecoderPro, select Preferences from the Edit menu, and click "Show Advanced Preferences". The window will get bigger. Press "Set" under "Roster:" and follow directions.