A new way of controlling model railroads
A new way of controlling model railroads
The OpenLCB project is developing an easy but sophisticated network for model railroad control using today's technology.
From small ...
to big
... to huge,
OpenLCBTM
will help you do
what you
want to do most:
run your railroad.
It
is Easy to use: Whether
you want to do simple setup by just pushing buttons on boards, or use
a full-featured configuration tool, OpenLCB makes setup easy.
It
protects your investment:
From your first
two boards through huge modular layouts, OpenLCB equipment will grow
with your railroad, and you can still connect and use your legacy
equipment.
It
is simple to expand:
OpenLCB
equipment can be added without
worrying about
ID conflicts, without
keeping track of
complicated address assignments, and never being forced to go back
and reconfigure equipment – all while working with your existing
model-railroad controls.
If you are a novice, or just want a simple user-view, without technical detail, see the "First Look" page.
If you want a more in depth summary, with some technical detail, see the General Description.
If you want to know how OpenLCB fits in with your layout, see the Use Cases.
If you're interested in the gory technical details, see the Technical Introduction and documentation index.
The OpenLCB group did a day's worth of demonstrations of OpenLCB at the NMRA 2010 convention in Milwaukee. We've got a page of movies, photos and diagrams for those who couldn't get there.
OpenLCB is being developed through an open, community based process. You can follow our documents as they develop, check out our prototype code, and if you want to take part.
Get the prototype code from our public code repository.
Welcome to the project! We all benefit by working on this together. Questions and comment can be directed to the egroup: OpenLCB
CBUS is a CAN-based layout control bus being developed by MERG.
The NMRA has an effort to create an “NMRAnet” layout control bus standard. OpenLCB is being proposed for that.
Wiki for NMRAnet with information on their criteria for a new control bus.
Past discussions have taken place on the NMRANETWG and MRRLCB Yahoo groups.
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