Trainlink Integration

[FrightRisk]

@matt-hu Perhaps you could provide a little help with your ideas on this. Do you have a video you can upload that shows you using it? Any pictures or tutorial? I want to find time to look at it more and compare it to what we do now, since we can coordinate throttles and JMRI.

I want to present this to the EX dev team and get ideas from them and hopefully get them interested in this if it adds useful functionality.

[matt-vdv]

Hi Fred,
Thanks for taking an interest in my project! I must admit, documentation is a little lacking at the present, but I have started writing Readme's and specs ready for a 1.0 release.

I have a basic website here, as well as some documentation here.
Also, the most complete readme is the one on the documentation repo, that is here.

Basically it allows many clients to control one CS over Wifi. When I started writing this, I had heard of WiThrottle but I saw it was proprietory somewhere and I was a bit overwhelmed by JMRI, so I decided to write something myself. This was when CS was still Beta without the WiThrottle server.

As far as I am aware, TrainLink is very much like WiThrottle but it keeps clients in sync. Meaning, if you connect to the same server and select the same cab on both a laptop and phone, then change the speed on your phone, you would see the slider moving on your laptop in realtime. I feel this would be rather hard to film, it is much better to experience it in person. I am working on getting a better out of the box experience for the server, as the only version available is the python version, so I am rewriting in rust to give better performance and binary builds.
On the client side, I do have a demo page done, but I'm porting it to an NPM package so we can use it with Vue, if this is what we decide to do. However, I am not a UI designer so the demo page is pretty rubbish. It would be great to have something built into CS, it uses websockets internally to send JSON packets to the server.