JMRI: Hardware Support

JMRI supports a wide range of DCC "command station"-style products from various model railroad automation vendors. If there is a way to make a computer communicate with a given piece of model railroad equipment, it is possible to connect it to JMRI.

Atlas

Configure: Atlas Commander via Lenz LI100, LI101F, LIUSB or GenLi XPressNet interfaces, ZTC Controls ZTC640 interface, or an XPA and Hayes compatible modem

Note: you can not program decoders with this configuration

C/MRI

Configure: Bruce Chubb's C/MRI control system

CTI Electronics Acela

Configure: CTI Electronics boards via Acela adapter.

CVP Products EasyDCC

Configure: EasyDCC command station via Serial or Terminal Server

DCC Specialties

Configure: Hare, Wabbit, Block Watcher or PSX family products.

Digitrax

General information on connecting JMRI to a Digitrax LocoNet

Configure: Connections to a LocoNet via

Digitrax PR3 interface
RR-CirKits LocoBuffer-USB
The older LocoBuffer-II, LocoBuffer and MS100 interfaces

Configure: LocoNet Simulator for use when disconnected from a layout.

Configure: Remote connection to a LocoNet via JMRI LocoNet Server.

Configure: Remote connection to a LocoNet via LbServer.

More information on connecting multiple computers to a single LocoNet

Configure: Programming and testing decoders without a command station via a Digitrax PR2 interface or PR3 interface.

Configure: Directly connecting to an Intellibox serial port.

ESU

Configure connection to ECoS command station.

Fleischmann

Configure: Twin Centre via the serial connection

Hornby

Configure: Hornby Elite via built in USB Port

Configure: Hornby Elite or Hornby Select via Lenz LI100, LI101F, LIUSB or GenLi XPressNet interfaces, ZTC Controls ZTC640 interface, or an XPA and Hayes compatible modem

Please check the notes above for system specific restrictions on what JMRI can do

Lenz

Configure: Lenz LI100, LI101F, LIUSB or GenLi XPressNet interfaces, ZTC Controls ZTC640 interface, or an XPA and Hayes compatible modem

Please check the notes above for system specific restrictions on what JMRI can do

Lionel TMCC

Connection: Serial cable

Configure: TMCC Command Base

MERG CBUS

Configure: MERG CBUS networks

NCE

Configure connection to a Powerhouse Pro via serial link or Terminal Server.
Configure connection to a PowerCab via NCE USB adapter.

NAC Services

Configure connection to an RPS position measurement system.

Oak Tree Systems

Configure connection to Oak Tree's Railroad Control Interface, including the IO-24, IO-48 and O-48 interface cards and HH-2 handheld throttle.

ProTrak Grapevine

Configure: Grapevine nodes

QSI Solutions

Connection: Quantum Programmer

Configure: USB connection

RailDriver

PI Engineering RailDriver

Configure: RailDriver cab simulator

Roco

Configure: Roco LocoMaus 2 (Roco Part number 10760) or Roco MultiMaus (Roco Part number 10810) via Lenz LI100, LI101F, or LIUSB XPressNet interfaces, ZTC Controls ZTC640 interface, or an XPA and Hayes compatible modem

Please check the notes above for system specific restrictions on what JMRI can do

SPROG

Andrew Crosland

Configure: SPROG

SRCP

Configure: Connection to SRCP server

TCH Technology

Connection:

Configure: via serial port

Uhlenbrock

The Intellibox can be connected to JMRI programs either via its LocoNet connections, or via its own serial port.:

Configure: Uhlenbrock Intellibox via MS100 or LocoBuffer LocoNet interfaces

Configure: Uhlenbrock Intellibox via built-in serial port

Wangrow

Connection: Wangrow Serial Port

Configure: System One

X10

Connection: X10 power-line controllers

Configure: CM11 and compatible controllers

Zimo

Configure: Zimo MX-1

ZTC Controls

Configure: ZTC Controls ZTC511, ZTC Controls ZTC521 via Lenz LI100, LI101F, or LIUSB XPressNet interfaces, ZTC Controls ZTC640 interface, or an XPA and Hayes compatible modem (requires XPressNet V3.0 software)

Please check the notes above for system specific restrictions on what JMRI can do

JMRI: Connecting to command stations

Macintosh

Mac Mini-DIN8 connector

Via a USB to Serial adapter

PC

Via a USB to Serial adapter

Terminal Server

EasyDCC via a Lantronics Terminal Server

JMRI: General hardware info

Turnout feedback: If your layout uses some feedback mechanism to sense the actual positions of turnouts, for example a microswitch connected to the throw bars or a decoder that returns a confirmation message, JMRI can use that to keep track of what's actually happening on the layout. We call this "Feedback", and how to configure and use it is described on another page.