fukawi2Jul 16, 2023

Wife bought me a Hornby train set several years ago. It's now totally useless because the shitty Hornby control software "expires" as soon as you install it, and activation server appears to be off-line.

Fuck proprietary software, especially when it's "required" for operation of real world things that shouldn't need it.

Anyone know suitable OSS alternatives to "Hornby Railmaster"?

Show threadJustified Ancient of Moomin
@phs @jpm to my knowledge Hornby and everything else uses DCC/DCC++ for the actual control of the model trains and if you have a background in Computer Touching then there are FOSS packages available to control DCC model locomotives using Arduino, Raspberry Pi and similar. As for web & app interfaces for controlling the trains I’m not as familiar.
Jul 16, 2023 at 9:14amWeb
Show threadBrian Danger HicksJul 16, 2023
@ThermiteBeGiants @phs @jpm There are several apps that use the WiThrottle protocol, but you need to either hook your DCC system up to a computer or buy the right add-on