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Quick and Dirty Route Lights 23/02/2021 at 17:22 #137423
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Quite why the video has uploaded with a rotation I'm not sure however... SimSig Interface Gateway - LED route lights

Using the Interface Gateway, a Rasperry Pi and some addressable LEDs, and some very quickly printed panel tiles, I've been able to do a proof of concept for driving a panel from SimSig.

The video shows a train on the Cardiff Valleys simulation arriving on THJBB, a route being set from HJ1 to HJ3, and then the train traversing the route and dropping the route lights behind it.

"Passengers for New Lane, should be seated in the rear coach of the train " - Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
Last edited: 23/02/2021 at 18:38 by headshot119
Reason: Added link to properly rotated video

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Quick and Dirty Route Lights 23/02/2021 at 17:46 #137425
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Imagine my partner thinking I'm hiding bodies in the loft which is why I'm so secretive, only to find I've built a replica of sheffield PSB.
"We don't stop camborne wednesdays"
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Quick and Dirty Route Lights 07/03/2021 at 18:47 #137684
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I made this rough sketch in Inkscape earlier this week...


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Quick and Dirty Route Lights 08/03/2021 at 17:21 #137701
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headshot119 in post 137423 said:


Using the Interface Gateway, a Rasperry Pi and some addressable LEDs, and some very quickly printed panel tiles, I've been able to do a proof of concept for driving a panel from SimSig.
Is roughly this how the Swindon Panel operates, although I'm guessing they had to make their own simulation to run it from?

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Quick and Dirty Route Lights 08/03/2021 at 18:47 #137704
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No.

Swindon Panel uses bespoke software and hardware to drive the actual panel electronics, which remain unchanged to how they were when installed on the “real” railway. The panel receives exactly the same electronic signals from the PCs that now run it; as it did from the relay room.

There aren’t any addressable LEDs or anything like that.

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