RTCAdapter - Missing Link between a Remote and WTIU

@macdaddy posted:

Vernon I now have all the parts to complete one of these RTC Adapters. I have purchased the same boards as you have. I see the wire connections on the ESP8266 board via your picture however you don't show in your pictures the connection to the CC1101E radio board. Could you provide a picture of the wired connections to the radio board. I have a friend printing the cases and Mark sent me the latest RTC file to flash the board.

Thank you in advance!

Mark's website is the BEST resource- so use it. https://www.silogic.com/trains/RTCAdapter.html

He has pictures for BOTH 10 pin and 8 pin radio versions

The boards have labeled silkscreen pin names beside the pins.

This is a good quick and easy test bed that does not require soldering or wirewrap. These Dupont wires are not that great of a connection and since they are just push on, they can fall off. Find a more secure way to interconnect these devices for the longer term.

FWIW: These wires were first made by Berg Electronics which was sold to DuPont and is now owned by Amphenol. Pins are 0.025 x 0.025 inches square.

I figure to do a PCB to mount the two units.

Thanks Vernon, that’s the information I was looking for!

Here are two videos demonstrating the Adapter. The first is a brief tour of my trainroom showing the hardware and the second shows the RTCAdapter in action.

On my RTCAdapter web page, I have two more videos which show the installing of Python and the uploading of the RTCAdapter compiled binary file into the ESP8266.

http://www.silogic.com/trains/RTCAdapter.html#binary

Anyone else having issues getting to the 192.168.4.1 page? It times out for me and won't load..it's probably something I'm not doing right.

Contact me at my email (on my web pages) and I'll try to help.

Mark

The rtc  started working on its own. I'll try the 192 number later on this morning again. If I have more trouble I'll certainly contact you..but good news if the creeks don't rise vern is coming over tonight to help me learn electronics. YouTube influences confuse me..thanks Ty

I would like to thank Mark and Vernon for all their help with this project. I was able to purchase the pieces and make a module and I am up and running with my new WTIU and using my existing DCS remote!

One happy camper here! Thanks again!

macdaddy sent me this video from his layout using RTCAdapter.

FWIW, I take no credit for developing it- that's all Mark and his great code and ideas, as well as great resources for the modules like Darrell Lamm of the deadrail community.

I just was so impressed and tried to help promote it since a lot of folks adopted the WTIU and then are still waiting for MTH to get their act together on the original tethered adapter.

@Vernon Barry posted:

I just was so impressed and tried to help promote it since a lot of folks adopted the WTIU and then are still waiting for MTH to get their act together on the original tethered adapter.

Wish they would put the remote tether on the back burner an focus on the tmcc/legacy adaptor.

Seems like MTH put a lot effort into hardware hacking prevention of the WTIU. All of the normal communication ports that one could use to interface with are gone and the USB port is very picky about what it connects to.

Since Mark's excellent work on the wtiu-remote link, I've abandoned my project for remote to wtiu box and for good cause. I'll bet MTH is going through good efforts to make sure such a device won't work their hardwired remote adapter.

Now the next worry is when will they encrypt communications between the App and WTIU? That would present a whole new challenge to keeping Mark's project going.