Live Departure Boards (SimSig)

Just a quick one for the Developer but could it be possible for the tool to be used by clients in MP mode please?

Interesting concept. While I got it to work on a free simulation I'm struggling with the paid sims.

When inputting in the command for -user <myusername> -pass <mypassword> I keep getting a "The syntax of the command is incorrect".

Any suggestions folks in where I'm going wrong?

Fleet Controller in post 143610 said:

Interesting concept. While I got it to work on a free simulation I'm struggling with the paid sims.

When inputting in the command for -user <myusername> -pass <mypassword> I keep getting a "The syntax of the command is incorrect".

Any suggestions folks in where I'm going wrong?

Random guess, but could the space in your username be causing a problem? No idea if quote marks around it would be accepted.

Steamer in post 143611 said:

Fleet Controller in post 143610 said:

Interesting concept. While I got it to work on a free simulation I'm struggling with the paid sims.

When inputting in the command for -user <myusername> -pass <mypassword> I keep getting a "The syntax of the command is incorrect".

Any suggestions folks in where I'm going wrong?

Random guess, but could the space in your username be causing a problem? No idea if quote marks around it would be accepted.

That did cross my mind. Just need to @jonathanp to confirm if that's an issue. I did try quotes around the username and got the same error.

Fleet Controller in post 143612 said:

Steamer in post 143611 said:

Fleet Controller in post 143610 said:

Interesting concept. While I got it to work on a free simulation I'm struggling with the paid sims.

When inputting in the command for -user <myusername> -pass <mypassword> I keep getting a "The syntax of the command is incorrect".

Any suggestions folks in where I'm going wrong?

Random guess, but could the space in your username be causing a problem? No idea if quote marks around it would be accepted.

That did cross my mind. Just need to @jonathanp to confirm if that's an issue. I did try quotes around the username and got the same error.

departureboard.exe -user "Fleet Controller" -pass password

replace password with whatever your password is. Just tried it with a test account we have and it worked fine with the space in the username.

headshot119 in post 143613 said:

Fleet Controller in post 143612 said:

Steamer in post 143611 said:

Fleet Controller in post 143610 said:

Interesting concept. While I got it to work on a free simulation I'm struggling with the paid sims.

When inputting in the command for -user <myusername> -pass <mypassword> I keep getting a "The syntax of the command is incorrect".

Any suggestions folks in where I'm going wrong?

Random guess, but could the space in your username be causing a problem? No idea if quote marks around it would be accepted.

That did cross my mind. Just need to @jonathanp to confirm if that's an issue. I did try quotes around the username and got the same error.

departureboard.exe -user "Fleet Controller" -pass password

replace password with whatever your password is. Just tried it with a test account we have and it worked fine with the space in the username.

Thanks for that. Got over that problem but discovered another problem. When it opens the new chrome window it says it didn't get any data and the CMD PROMPT throws up a lot of error messages. Again I've tried it on a free sim and no issues.

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Interesting concept. While I got it to work on a free simulation I'm struggling with the paid sims.

When inputting in the command for -user <myusername> -pass <mypassword> I keep getting a "The syntax of the command is incorrect".

Any suggestions folks in where I'm going wrong?

Still refuses to work for payware sims, keeps coming back with errors that only the freeware ones work - I've followed the instructions to the letter and it just refuses to work.

Bearing in mind that it is work-in-progress and that @jonathanp has already said "to be accessible the tool needs a proper user interface. I will work on that and release a new version," there is probably not a lot of point in getting too exercised at this stage about it being difficult to get things to work properly (although it will probably be helpful for @jonathanp if bugs and glitches are reported).

Also the only way I could find to look at a different location was to exit and relaunch your exe - is that correct or did I miss something?

I did not get as far as seeing what would happen if I replatformed a train, just curious as to what would happen.

I'd quite like the display to only show the destination of the service as per a normal board for passengers, but I assume that would depend on what fields had been populated in the timetable editor screen for this to be possible.

What I did notice was that it used the TIPLOCK, is there a way to reference the name?

Also instead of having unknown, could it show on time instead then show cancelled if the stop has been removed or 2 mins late etc

Thank you for the suggestions.


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What I did notice was that it used the TIPLOCK, is there a way to reference the name?

For that I would need a mapping of TIPLOC codes to names. It seems like Network Rail would be able to provide that and would allow distribution, but not immediately.

Possibly the most pragmatic solution would be just to rely on all timetable developers using the "xxxx Origin - Destination (traction)" description format and extract it from that.

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I did not get as far as seeing what would happen if I replatformed a train, just curious as to what would happen.

Replatforming shows up if SimSig reports the platform the train used(which doesn't seem to happen at all stops). However this only happens once the train has arrived in the platform. In reality I assume the signaller has to manually input it somehow, I guess that could a new dimension for the future.

Ah, I see, so your exe loads the WTT and the WTT is coded by TIPLOC so picks that up - makes sense.
The Sim, on the other hand, contains the TIPLOC and a key NAM=Location linked to that.
Is it possible to pick that up through the interface?
Peter

Peter Bennet in post 143646 said:

Ah, I see, so your exe loads the WTT and the WTT is coded by TIPLOC so picks that up - makes sense.
The Sim, on the other hand, contains the TIPLOC and a key NAM=Location linked to that.
Is it possible to pick that up through the interface?
Peter

So far as I can tell the Sim does not know either. My limited tests have seen 3 approaches:
a) Timetables with no Destination
b) Timetables with a TIPLOC in the Destination(which could be anywhere on the network, so SimSig would have to be hiding it's own complete list somewhere to decode it), but also a Train Description which is used in the Train List
c) Timetables with a full name in the Destination, and an automatically constructed Train List Description.

Am I missing something here? I open a CMD prompt and put in depatureboard.exe -user "i26" -pass mypassword

And all I get in response is

'depatureboard.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

i26 in post 143672 said:

Am I missing something here? I open a CMD prompt and put in depatureboard.exe -user "i26" -pass mypassword

And all I get in response is

'depatureboard.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

For one, I'd assume you need to spell it as "departureboard.exe". You may also need to use the full file location, probably "C:/users/yourusername/Downloads/departureboard.exe"