It’s really more of an experiment at the moment, to see if I could do it and how much hassle it would be, and as it turns out it was a fair bit of hassle! I was going to go down the analogue route with points and signals, but from previous layouts, I wasn’t looking forward to the miles of wiring! That said there’s still a fair bit of wiring with DCC point control, but it’s pretty much all localised to the area around the decoders, 2 wires indeed!!

Thank you! It’s all a big experiment at the moment, it may work out to be too bog a faff as I’m not sure if I like the control panel thing, and I’m not hugely keen on having my expensive MacBook out in the garage either. It’s kinda worth it for the WiThrottle though, and I may see if I can invest in a cheap secondhand router for the garage just to get WiFi out there, as it’s out of range of the router in the house. The other route is buying a Digitrax wireless adapter and using WiThrottle that way

Thanks dude

You certainly can

Don’t know if I’ll be going for automation, as I like to have control myself! I wanted to have a go with JMRI to see if I could build a half decent control panel with it. I got a panel built as you can see in the video, but there’s something about it that I’m not that happy with, as it feels like I could potentially mess it up at any moment! And I really wanted my control panel diagram to look like a traditional signalbox diagram, something that I think I’m going to pursue at a later date using DCC control. One of the main things I wanted to try with JMRI was using WiThrottle on my iPhone and iPad, but I’m hampered by the non existent wifi signal in the garage! Will be looking at the Digitrax wireless module I think, as Withrottle will work with it. My name isn’t Ian though, it’s Chris 😉😉