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the devs had a disc crash the day of release, that's why the release was delayed by 2 hours as they did their best to rebuild things. perhaps in that process the camera position for TrackIr users bugged out. there are going to be bug fix updates released over this weekend... but until this one gets fixed there is a very very simple workaround. . . drive like everyone else and turn TrackIr off for now, this allows you to still drive any train you like, you can still move the view with the mouse. it's not like the TrackIR bug stops you even loading into a train, or gives you a BSOD each time you start SimRail is it? 99% of SimRail users have no idea the TrackIr bug even exists as they don't use it,

can you link to the multiplayer train driving and signalling game you have made that has zero bugs on release day please... i always use TrackIr in SimRail... but when i figured out the view location is bugged, i simply turned it off for now,

have you stopped with the SHP pickup directly over a SHP magnet by any chance?? i've done that a few times in stations (the magnet should be 200 meters before the next signal, and in some stations this results in the magnet being near the place you'd stop in that station) If that is the case (or for now if it's a bug where if the SHP is triggered whilst you are almost stopped, and it doesn't reset after you stop moving) .... using the mouse, swing that red and white 'lollipop' in to the right of the middle windscreen to the left, this turns the SHP system off in these trains... swing the lollipop back vertical when you move off to re-enable the system.

the tutorials are pretty much interactive movies... they simply play out the instructions one after the other and advance when you have clicked the buttons they tell you to, so my guess is the tutorial in question is an older one that was made before the radio PSU and splitter was added to the sim. but there are a few different EU07 'tutorials' i believe?

wait.... you are going to give SimRail a negative review because you haven't found the radio power supply / splitter yet? SimRail is not your typical arcade like train game where it's more like playing with a model railway, SimRail is based on the simulator software used to train real life drivers, so it's going to take anyone new to it a while to figure things out, once you know about the radio PSU and splitter, it will all make sense, as the poster above said, this functionality was added after the first scenario was created... so it's really down to the maker of that scenario that they didn't update it to include new functionality added to the sim.

Loving that we get more keybinds now, but one is missing that some of us use a lot... the train heating switch in the EU07 / EP08 etc... This is the switch you need to turn off when the wires are icy and the OLE voltage is fluctuating... turn the train heating off in time and it will not trip the power out.... And if you do trip the undervoltage relay, you need to turn the train heating off to re-start the converter... so this is one keybind i really was expecting to see. I also note that some toggle switches can have 2 keybinds assigned to them... one for on and one for off, i.e. the pantograph switches where you have a dedicated up and down keybind. But for the 'new' compressor and converter switches keybinds (plus the high current switch) we only get a single keybind for on and off... is it possible to change it so that all controls that are on a toggle or rotary switch get a seperate on and off keybind? (maybe an option that if we assign the same keybind for on and off, it will then switch between the toggle position each time a single keybind is pressed) Not sure if others get this, but i can't seem to get the 'anti slip' button keybind to work in the EU07 / EP08's (it works in the ET22.. made a bug report about this) And another 'missing' keybind, the 'Open Line Contactors' button... i use this when i have missed a neutral section sign and need to turn power off rapidly, so a keybind for this would almost complete all the things we operate when driving and don't want to mess about using the mouse to operate.

When i have TrackIr on, the camera is placed under the train all the time... If i press escape to bring up the menu's, the camera changes to the drivers seat... but as soon as i take control back it goes back under the train again. tried playing with seat positions and TrackIR positions, and nothing works.

yeah, the expensive ones are more aimed at people using them for amature radio operations where they want the best clarity they can get for talking to people around the world (using the computer as their radio... where the analog voice input is turned into digital signals immediately anyway) But when some HAM radios cost thousands, and some microphones for them can be multiple hundreds, i guess a 'specialised' electronics box for £200 sounds ok to them. That's why i got into 3D printing, finding and buying real train parts is very very expensive, and they all need adapting to work with a computer anyway, so now i 3D print my own controllers and accessories that are designed to operate with USB input boards from the beginning.

also, you could try searching for 'USB PTT mic' ali express seems to be selling some walkietalkie mics with a usb connector for around £10, how well they work i have no idea but it could be a starting point of a project. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004316599302.html

below is just one link i found by searching for PTT computer mic, https://simplehrr.com/simple-ham-radio-remote-project-remote-ptt-mic they all pretty much do the same, break out the PTT and microphone connections, use an arduino to handle the PTT interface by sending a keystroke when the mics button is pressed, and routed audio from the mic to the computer. Most of the sites i've seen show you how to make the circuit yourself, so you need to be able to solder, some places that i saw a while back who sold plug and play interfaces wanted silly money... like £200 for an assembled box, it contains a £5 arduino and some connectors at the end of the day, plus some simple arduino programming.

The problem will be getting the PTT button to operate, in a walkietalkie it shorts out 2 of the pins in the mics plug to work, but a computer does not have that functionality in it's microphone input socket... you might be able to mute the mic with the ptt button... thats about as much as a computer expects from shorted pins on the mic input socket (if you short the right ones with the PTT button that is) So you will need to make / buy an adapter box to plug the mic into that separates the PTT pins and audio, leaving the audio from the mic on all the time and the PTT button sends a signal to the computer via a USB board like an arduino. There are a few sites that can be found by googling where people have made walkietaklie mics work with computers.. for digital HAM radio stuff, flight sim stuff etc. they would be able to tell you best which mic to buy that works with their adapter box. If making an adapter box yourself, you will also need to check if the walkietalkie mic breaks the mic connection when the PTT button is not pressed.... CB mic's do this, Some computers will 'uninstall' the microphone when it detects the mic is not in circuit... so you would be forever getting the windows 'du-ding... di-dong' sounds as you press and release the PTT button and the mic is installed and un-installed. : An alternative if you have access to a 3D printer is to do as i did, and make a replica Radmor style microphone (the one used in the older trains in the sim) this uses a coiled USB cable that plugs into any USB port on the computer, and inside the mic is a single button board that handles the PTT switch, and a USB microphone dongle, https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/forum.simrail.eu/monthly_2024_05/image.thumb.png.9752c6c128b4aaab887d80fd1f0d6dbf.png I have been using my 3D printed Radmor mic for a year or so now, and published the files needed to make it :

Woooo, loving the more keybinds thing, maybe i can finally get all switches on my little button box working after a year and a half 😄

i've read that the ability for others to open other peoples train doors is being taken away in the next update.... as some people have been using it to troll others. back when other users could open the cab doors of other trains, i once had someone spend about 2 minutes constantly opening and slamming my cab door then went over the platform to do it to another players train that had just arrived, some people just like to try and annoy others for fun.

Steam workshop stuff will be a feature with SimRail in the future, it's already got it's place holder in the 'developer menu' (F8 i believe brings that up... in multiplayer at least)

wait till you get onto the multiplayer side, thats where this sim shines, a thousand or so services to drive over the 24 hours of timetables.

As the ET22 does not have windscreen washers (sprinklers) Can we have an option to wash the flies off the screen manually with a bucket of water?

The same windows in the EP08-001... Showing the -013 loco is missing interior reflections / dirty glass texture maybe?

The glass is present, it's just very very clean 🙂 When it rains you can see it, so i guess there is a missing texture on those pains of glass.

Yeah, it's the grey cab ones.

I'm wondering if the lack of the hassler tacho ticking in the blue EP08, and one of the EU/EP07's is intentional? I had a theory that the loco has been rotated so we are driving from the 'B' cab, which does not have the recording equipment in the tacho, but going to the rear cab you can see the other tacho is different... no kilometer counter and stuff like that. Is the ticking missing a bug, or are some hassler tacho's really silent?

waiting at signals is part of train driving in the real world, i've been sat at the entrance signal for opoczno heading south, had an EC train in the platform, a pendolino passed me left track, then another pendo passed me from the other direction about 5 mins later, Then finally the EC train left the platform, and finally it was my turn, That's the kind of thing you expect at a single platform off the main line.... that platform was put there to please an MP who lived in the village and wanted rail access after all, so it's always going to be an afterthought thing.

that's part of the fun of dispatching Opoczno, you have to juggle things about to make it all work. There's new timetables coming out when we get the line extensions that may take care of that.

perfect to be added to the 1980's route?

i agree, the rain droplets build up to form a sort of square lattice pattern, the wipers also wipe more than the blade's size. Something that could possibly be improved on, if that's possible, and the rain is not a hard baked in part of unity.

You can turn the STM32's into arduino's if you want, ..... arduino's with a 32 bit cpu and i think 12 bit ADC's for the analog inputs etc. You use the same STM programmer used to flash it with the FreeJoy software, and when it's flashed as an arduino, it shows up as an Arduino Maple board, and it can be programmed using the Arduino IDE as if it were an arduino board. I've done this a few times on projects in the past, as i bought a load of cheap STM32's when i was using them with FreeJoy as joystick controllers. https://www.stm32duino.com/