I have since found that toggling the stop layout, resume layout button(Top right hand of the screen) will bring the loco's on the hornby app back to life without restarting the app. But just reintroducing the power alone doesn't seem to spark them back to life like other dcc loco's on the layout. At least on my layout it doesn't (With stay alives fitted that is). Still handy to know. 🤔🙂

@stephenb9400

11 ай бұрын

Nice work

I think your work is fantastic I hope I will be able to be as good as you .I have just started after 40+years to get my new board laid in a 9x9room which will be more Steam engines but also included some other locomotives like diesel engines + I'm also sold on hornby's Bluetooth sound chips I have 2 so far.look forward to seeing more of your information etc.thanks for your time 👍👋🤗😊

@WHP1980s

11 ай бұрын

Glad I can be of help, and thank you for your kind words. The best of luck in your new venture. I hope your new layout turns out to be everything you ever wanted from the hobby. Atb Graham 😊👍

I like the special effects (wood pigeon) nice video

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

Can assure you, they're not very special, but quite regular and bloody annoying 🙄 🤣👍

Thanks for sharing, a very informative video, happy to hear the experience of a "modeler", look forward to hearing how you get on with the 21 pin version!

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, will definitely mention in the future on how I get on with the 21 pin version, can't wait to put them into my 37's & 47's, cheers Graham 👍

Excellent stuff Graham, the 56 definitely sounds great and thanks to your trials and tribulations I’m edging a bit closer towards purchasing the HM7000 to give it a try 😊 cheers Darrell

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

Glad to pass on my experiences mate, cheers 🙂👍

@stephenb9400

11 ай бұрын

I feel like Hornby may have gotten it right but needs fetaling

@stephenb9400

11 ай бұрын

Or twerking as it's a New experience we should try pricing allowing us to support Hornby..

Thanks Graham, Great insight over the 2 videos, certainly given me food for thought, Cheers Pal

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

A pleasure to pass on my experiences and glad if they are of any help to people. Thanks for watching and commenting, cheers Graham 😊👍

I love the sound and look of your layout. The period is also very memorable

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

Thanks and cheers for following the channel. Regards Graham 🙂

I also believe that.. Perfection is YOU.

@WHP1980s

8 ай бұрын

👍

Thank you Graham. It's been a really useful insight into Hornby's new DCC decoder system. I've been holding off on buying in to it until others had sorted/identified the teething issues and done the heavy lifting on ironing out the problems and glitches. I now feel more confident that it will be worth me dabbling with a decoder now, to see how I get on with it. They do seem to have priced it about right for what you get and of course you can reload/download different loco sound sets whenever required, so brilliant flexibility there. They just need to make sure the sound files are top notch so as not to waste this product's potential....The competition must be working on similar systems surely! I look forwards as always to your next episode. Cheers Graham, regards Julian

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Julian, I'm only too glad to help people. I know what it's like trying to work out where to spend your hard earned cash these days. Cheers Graham 👍

Hi Graham. I'm so pleased that you appear to have solved the problem, but I'm astounded that your diesels needed the stay alive (I did suggest that this might be necessary if power was being picked up by only one bogie, but I somehow doubt that this was the case)! I assume your diesels are Hornby TT:120 and not very old? No, it didn't surprise me that you had to do a reset to get the loco going again. Pigeon - where's your shotgun? When you win the lottery, you will need to upgrade your controller (or just go with Hornby's Bluetooth system). Thunderbirds are go! Sorry, my little brain immediately assumed Hornby HM7000 meant TT:120 - I should know better (actually, I do know better - just a senior moment).

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the input Paul, much appreciated. And yes, I'm not running tt but good old oo. As for the pigeon I would love to silence it, but that's nature for you. People forget we are all part of that and should be more tolerant. Some humans annoy me more, no thoughts for this beautiful planet we live on. Deep I know... cheers Graham 👍

Well it looks like you have it all working. And I'm impressed think I might give it ago myself . Thanks for the info mate nice one 👍

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

It's really up to the individual and your needs. But it certainly fits my needs. Hopefully you won't be disappointed. Just don't forget to buy them stay alives mate. Cheers Graham 👍

56 does sound good, glad I live in the sticks though i`m not safe from the boy racers and there Fart boxes, And pigeons are fair game for the cross hairs on a BSA.

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

Used to be quiet 30 years ago when we moved in. Now the urban sprawl is catching up with us. Would love to live out in the sticks again as I did when I was a kid. Cheers for watching 👍

Thanks have you looked at the Z21 system you can use all your chips

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

Will have a look, but I'm sure it's not cheap. ........Had a look not badly priced, but I'm going to stay with this shared system I have at the moment with a long term intension of possibly swapping all loco's over to the HM7000 system if it pans out. But this is quite a long way down the line as I would have to replace all my dcc only chips. 🤔🫣Cheers for the feedback 👍

@brianwilliams1702

Жыл бұрын

@@WHP1980s I am not sure but the Z21 system will operate the HM7000 and all your other chips

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

@brianwilliams1702 that's the case for most systems, just don't want the cost of another dcc system if I don't need it, they could all be going obsolete if blue tooth technology takes off. Cheers though 👍

@philh9421

11 ай бұрын

@@WHP1980s​​⁠Except that if your DCC manufacturer goes out of business, or decides to stop supporting the kit you have, it carries on working. I’m not expecting Hornby to go out of business but if they decide HM7000 isn’t paying its way, what happens if the app is no longer available, or stops being upgraded? Without it those chips can’t be reprogrammed.

@kool-k-kel

6 ай бұрын

theres a vid on youtube guy pairs hm7000 to z21 , pairs the loco with hornby app, then turns the app to dcc mode / bluetooth off and the z21 picked it up straight away. even put the sounds on via hornby app then the passed over and z21 function buttons played sounds. picadilly model railway channel :)@@brianwilliams1702

It didn't look like the loco was sitting properly on the rails during that long pause after lifting it up.

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

I just had a look and maybe you saw the loose rusty rail in front of the loco which I have in the cess every so often in that section. I can assure you it was on the rails. Also this has happened many times off camera as well before I had the stay alives fitted. Cheers 👍

@little_britain

Жыл бұрын

@@WHP1980s Ah, it's pity about the quirks of this decoder So much promise, reasonable price, but definitely needs the keep-alive. I am in Canada where I can get digitrax soujnd decoders at a reasonable price ( $65 each), so I may get the sound programmer and stick with them.

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

@@little_britain "sounds" like a good idea. 🙂

So can u use the chips on any system as I have the ecos so do u have to run in on the phone or will it work on my own system ?

@WHP1980s

Жыл бұрын

Have to admit I've not tried them on dcc yet, only in tandem with a dcc system as a stand alone using the power on the track from a dcc system. Will give it a try out at one point but this is not interesting to me personally as I only have limited space on my dcc system and adding more loco's to my dcc system is the opposite to what I'm trying to achieve out of this system personally. But I'm sure people would like to know how reliable doing this would be. Thanks for watching cheers Graham 👍