NCE has retired (discontinued, dropped) their Packet Analyzer, so I'm looking for a replacement.

Purpose: periodically connect to DCC Track bus and send packet data to laptop for capture, display, and review, primarily as an educational tool to illustrate what the command station is putting on the track in response to command input from a throttle.

Maybe even an Arduino / Raspberry PI solution - RPi might allow for connecting up to the JMRI module that reads from the NCE analyzer (if the outputs are nearly identical).

Thanks!

/Walt

I'm just curious how many of you use the Digitrax Dispatch feature. My understanding is somewhat limited regarding this feature. As far as I can tell, it seems to apply mostly to older throttles that only supports 2-digit addresses.

So, does anyone use this? Or do you mostly ignore it and use release?

I apologize for asking a question that I'm sure has been asked a million times, but I've searched and tried the solutions I found and I'm still stuck, or rather, not stuck, actually speeding along the track high-ball style. To add insult to injury, I think I've solved this problem myself before, but its been long enough that I don't remember what I did. Its a cold and snowy night here, so maybe somebody else is stuck at home that can help me out.