Fichtelbahn OpenDCC BiDiB LightControl V1.3 User Manual
LightControl V1.3
„Manual for SMD pre fitted kit”
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Table of contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................... 3
1. LightControl: .................................................................................................... 7
2. Construction description of the SMD equipped board: ..................................... 9
Step 1: the power supply ............................................................................................................................ 9
step 2: „function test bootloader“ ........................................................................................................... 10
Step 3: BiDiB-interface ............................................................................................................................. 10
step 4: 16 Power outputs and 8 inputs ..................................................................................................... 11
step 5: 32x LED-outputs: ........................................................................................................................... 11
step 6: 4x servo-outputs: ........................................................................................................................... 12
3. The firmware update ...................................................................................... 13
3.1 Approach with the firmware update ............................................................................................. 13
4. Status announcements ................................................................................... 15
5. References ..................................................................................................... 17
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Introduction
These instructions refer to the BiDiB / DCC decoder "LightControl " from OpenDCC and Fichtelbahn.
The decoder gets on not as a commercial ready product, but is a development aid or kit for technically interested
railroad modeler for the own construction.
Here once again a clear tip:
The decoder and these instructions were checked carefully and provided after the best knowledge. For the
information presented here no claim to completeness, actuality, quality and correctness is raised. No responsibility for
the damages which originate from the trust in the contents of these instructions, to the decoder or their use can be
taken over.
The software of the decoder can be downloaded on our Internet site , may be extended by everybody uses, and be
improved.
A commercial use of the software or parts from it are not permitted!
Warranty
The use of this manual is permitted only for the reproduction and the personal use of the described stone. An other use
needs the written approval of the author.
For the reproduction and its functions of the described stone the author assumes no liability.
The operator is responsible for the observance of existing regulations and the regular use of the product alone.
Reference:
RailCom® and RailComPlus® are regisrtered trademarks
of Lenz Elektronik GmbH and
ESU electronic Solutions Ulm GmbH & Co. KG.
for the rise of the legibility of the text have we refuses to refer by every use of the concept to it.
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Interesting facts to the BiDiB-Seriennummer / Unique-ID
The picture shows a Unique-ID on a BiDiBus
Device.
All SMD equipped BiDiB assemblies bought from the
Fichtelbahn shop and are on the BiDiBus will be
delivered with an installed BiDiB-serialnumber. This
srialnumber is part of the unique-ID and therefore the
complete unique ID is printed at the back side of the
cuircuit.
What is the Unique-ID?
The from the manufacturer in the kit hard programmed, unequivocal ID, consisting of 16 Bit vendor ID and
32 Bit vendor specific number (e.t. produktindex and serialnumber).
V = VID (Vendor ID)
OD = Do it your self projects
P = PID (product ID)
6800 = GBMboost Master
6700 = GBMboost Node
6B00 = LightControl
0029 becomes to 2900 = serialnumber
The data of the Unique-ID are in HEX.
For what serves the Unique ID?
The Unique-ID is an absolutely unique number, with this number an assembly is found regardless of its
installation place and its place in the bus.
That means: The BiDiB system leads a sort of 'phone book', under which connection which assembly can
be reached. Then the hostprogram awards names for the single connections. The Unique-ID is here the
connector between the name in the PC and the assembly.
Example:
A LightControl is omounted under the railway station and has the Unique-ID 0D 6B001234. In the
Hostprogramm it is called central station west. The BiDiB system announces to the Hostprogramm:
0D6B001234 you find under connection 3. If one moves something now in central station west, the
Hostprogramm looks in the phone book: ah, I should call 3.
You have normally nothing more to do with addresses and dip switches.
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Why should I stick on this number?
For what could I use this information?
All tools, however, also the actual PChostprogramms communicate and
administer the assemblies with this
number. Now there is no more "address
DCC XX", but the cmmand is sent into the
knots *Unique-ID X* and his port.
The reverse is that for the configuration of
a new action at the output of a decoder
(e.g., LightControl) or the allocation of a
dispatch rider in the rail picture (e.g.,
GBM), the program must be informed
about the suitable Unique-ID of the BiDiB
assembly.
Hardware-serialnumber:
The stuck serialnumber with S/N at the back of the assembly is a hardwareserialnumber and nothing deals with the Unique-ID serialnumber for the
BiDiB assemblies. With this number your assembly is registered with us.
Where is the Unique-ID stored on the assembly?
Here the procedure is bipartite a little bit. In the Flash/EEPROM-firmware file the VID and PID are already
integrated and are transmitted to the sassembly, however, no serialnumber is included. Hence, the
firmware files can be loaded easily in the processor or can be also updated. Besides, an already available
serialnumber will not be overwritten. If the sassembly still recognises no loaded serialnumber while
starting, a error code flashes and the use of the assembly is blocked.
Without serialnumber the firmware does not run!
(Exception with the master GBMboost: here a Notfall-S/N is generated with the sign: 0100. These S/N can
be overwritten any time with the upload of the valid S/N)
The serialnumber is always postpushed as the third act of the introduction and lands as first in the
EEPROM of the assembly.
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By every new start the appliance explains the following examination:
He looks in the user signature area whether already a serialnumber exists.
If no serialnumber is available here the serialnumber from the EEPROM is filed and the assembly begins
starts to work. If there is in the USERS signature area already a serialnumber available the new-struck up
serialnumber is rejected by the EEPROM and the already deposited serialnumber from the user signature
area is used.
The deposited serialnumber in the USER signature area is also preserved with a CHIP ERASE and can be
deleted only with a USER signature ERASE.
If you must change the serialnumber on a BiDiBus suited Device, it works only with a previous USER
signature ERASE.
However, this also entails that available calibration values get lost because these are also stored in this area.
This should not be done without a special reason.
I have deleted the printed serialnumber by mistake.
How can this be uploaded again?
1. You load a new serialnumber with the generator and upload this after deleting the USER signature area
to the BiDiBus Device.
Importantly: Now do not forget to replace the existing sticker by the new Unique-ID. Link to to the
generator: http://www.opendcc.de/elektronik/bidib/opendcc_bidib.html
2. You want to use the available (printed) Unique-ID again because it was already deposited in the rail
trackplans of my PC programms.
In this case contact Fichtelbahn-Support with the information of the printed Unique-ID number and
the accompanying hardware-serialnumber.
This works only with preequipped SMD kits! With independently loaded serialnumbers you must look in
the history of your loaded serialnumbers in the generator, for the suitable number.
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