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Always good to start the new year off with a good laugh! 😆

I've been saying Feb 29 in non leap years for donkeys and I am, of course, the winner! :)

I'll go with my usual 29th Feb, 2017

29th Feb, 2017

Put me down for March 2030 - looks like present management have given up.

Ok, so this is just for reference - I have a txt file on the desktop for that anyway.

On signal green - ok, this is pretty straight forward. Toot horn, flash lghts, set speed, etc. On signal red - so there will be an option other than stopping? Stop loco on signal - on a signal other than red? Or does this mean a signal from any device, not necessarily a signal. A signal (instruction) from another sensor perhaps? Resume loco on signal - on a signal other than green? And same as for :Stop loco on signal". I'm hoping the Stop and Resume on signal commands imply red and green. So unless instructed otherwise for given trains, at a given sensor you simply tell it to Stop loco on signal, Resume loco on signal and it simply does this for all trains.

JMRI began in 1997. I know of at least 1 company that has had interfaces between command stations and PCs since 1996. Hornby released RM in late 2010. Just exactly what sort of computer and OS do you imagine is required to do the hoplessly simple chore of automating a bunch of trains? You speak about this as though it's some sort of NASA task - are you kidding? The old 286s running DOS would have run 1000 trains without even breaking a sweat!

I reckon it would have been best if Hornby released some sort of detection hardware and software at least 15 years ago! LOL

Ok, and that seems to be within the rules but I'll post it in the other thread to keep the "on topic" cops happy.

There is a product I know of, providing 16 detection points on your layout for under $10US per point. You can have a million of them depending on software. PS - Oh, and btw, it's been around since right on the turn of the century, as should be expected.

There is a product I know of, providing 16 detection points on your layout for under $10US per point. You can have a million of them depending on software.

Someone else gets it - wonders 'ill never cease! LOL

Care to elaborate? If I want to stop a train right at the end of a platform I can have a block begin there and simply cut the power. At another block that begins around about at the start of the platform I can start to slow the train down so that it is almost stopped by the time it gets to the "stopping" block. How can LD do that better?

Well the invasive comment seems to go to the heart of the matter. Who is going to be interested in LD and not be prepared to have a layout "properly" set up? The idea of providing LD (or any detection system whatsoever) for someone that doesn't even have their layout wired properly is hilarious! And this is what I believe Hornby have recently woken up to. All this other talk about Patents is just as laughable - pure cover story. They haven't got a clue! Looks like we'll simply need to wait for the dinosaurs presently calling the shots to die off and wait for those born in the calculator age to start coming up through the company. Then they can get some advise from their children (born in the computer age) about what to do. Hallelujah!