I've switched gears to working on support for making the system easier to use and more bulletproof. This is involved two changes. The first is I've developed some scripts that allow you to run the software when the raspberry pie boots up. This will be important because when powers turned onto the layout, I want the pies that are powering the control panels to just boot up and be working, like an embedded device.
The second change is to use a discovery service to allow the PyTrain server(s) to register their presence on the local network. This will allow the client applications to not need to fool with IP addresses. They will auto-discover The IP address of the server, and just simply connect to it. Since the Base 3 Doesn't echo out very many of the commands it receives in, I still think it will be advantageous to have an LCS Ser2 connected to the server. That said, I'm investigating if it makes sense to have each client send train commands directly to the Base 3 over WiFi. This should help distribute the load.
I'm working now on actually building the first control panel to operate my gantry crane. I'll send pictures along once there's something to show. By the way, all of the code is checked in.
-- Dave
