[Jmri-developers] Changes for DCC Accessory Decoder OPS Addressing

[Alex S. <al...@ne...>]

Hi Bob,

I'm sending this to the list as it may well have wider interest...

Some time ago we talked about what would be needed to add support to JMRI to
allow the whole DecoderPro framework to address a DCC Accessory Decoder
using the DCC Accessory Decoder variant of OPS mode programming.

Also we should consider adding support for the LocoNet SV programmer
protocol and further down the track the CAN CBUS and NMRAnet TBD variants of
the same type of thing.

Where I think we got to was that you were going to do some initial
refactoring as there were some issues with how the DccAddress class hooked
into the rest of the system as it was a bit hard to follow and then I was
going to do the rest.

Maybe before you go too far down that path, DccAddress needs to be
generalised into some sort of "Node being Programmed" class that is a
superset of the current DccAddress (mobile decoder Short/Long + OPS
address), DCC Accessory OPS Address, LocoNet SV and CAN etc and maybe even
Ethernet IP address + Port or Bonjure device/service names.

Obviously you are busy with the MRR Convention so can we catch-up some time
after that to pick-up where we left off?

Alex