EX-FastClock

[bilekfe]

there is no EX-Fast_Clock.ino file to download.

[ColinHMurdoch]

Use the Arduino IDE branch instead of main.

[bilekfe]

thank you
i will try to figure that out

[bilekfe]

I have 6' by 12' layout with 8 or more DCC Units that will be running at the same time.
These units are passenger trains, Freight trains, Trams/ Street cars and YES a Helicopter.
I'm currently 2 Command stations With loconet and putting together DCC-EX Command station With a EX-FastClock.
On top of that there you're over 35 Anduino for Is animation. Every building gets one, 1 MEG for the traffic lights which the trams will follows and all the lights ( sun Set/Rise, Sodium vapor, LED, Neon and so on).
I see the EX command station requesting time.

The question is can I have EX-FastClock be the master on I2C and DCC-EX Command Station, EX-RAIL be a slave?

[ColinHMurdoch]

The I2C version of the FastClock is driven by a HAL driver. The HAL polls all I2C devices periodically to get pin and sensor status information and where an I2C FastClock is defined it polls that periodically for the time. I don’t believe that the HAL can act as both a master and a slave. Even if that was possible then a new HAL driver would be required.
You switch to using a serial FastClock. In this scenario the FastClock sends serial data to the CS parser when the time changes - in this way the clock is being a Master and the CS is responding on receipt of time - much the same as it responds to a throttle command.

[bilekfe]

Thank you Colin for your quick response.
I guess I have a little More work.

I have the Fast clock running and from what I can see so far. I like this better than the loconet FastClock.

Thank you again for your time.
Sincerely, Frank.