Currently oscillating between “Orchestra of Fire” (instrumental power metal) and “Pixel Arcade” (8-bit chip tune jams)

This is like the steak thing… you can either have your bacon chewy or ruined. There isn’t a middle ground.

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Correct.

You know… might have to add some of those to the display too

Or… I have an MTH Zcontroller set that does some weird AC stuff to make the locomotive do things… maybe I figure that out.

Thanks! So many random things to do still, but loving the fact that for the most part, it works and I can control the train from my phone.

Added smooth starts, stops, and direction changes today. Also made the UI behave.

Next on the list is either:
- Get as much functionality built into the DC controller as you could from DCC
- Get a DCC board for one of my Kato locomotives and try to figure out what to do with that.

UI -> API -> Command Bus (MQTT) -> RPi w/ PWM hat for DC motor control.

Feels like I’m missing something from a modern architecture standpoint. Some other component to over complicate things.

It survived a reboot!

… all of this to drive the one train.