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for things like turnouts (and any future lights), I should be able to program a PICAXE to control. I would have the NXT be the user-interface and data distribution center. It would send commands to the RCX to run the DCC signals, and to the PICAXE to control the turnouts (and TT, if I motorize it)....

I guess for both my wishes (good IR control, and DCC), I need BrickOS... Any idea where I can get help with it? The best source is likely still lugnet.com's lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos newsgroup. You can view via a web browser or subscribe using a newsgroup reader. Though the newsgroup is very low tr...

I'm not sure I see what would be considered discussion...that was a wish for BricxCC for Linux that fully supports the RCX???

Both the Serial & USB versions of the RCX Towers work fine on my LinuxMint amd64 Box With the exception that, as noted above, the Linux USB Tower driver does not implement support for all the capabilities of the USB Tower (including such things as baud rate and carrier frequency). legousbtower-...

LDCC itself isn't so much for programming as it is for running as a DCC command station; however, the DCC packet generation capabilities have been ported to the pbForth and patched BrickOS firmwares to facilitate programmatic control of the packet generation. LDCC is able to accept commands via IR, ...

Instead of a USB tower, I can just use a COM port. Right now, I am using a virtual COM port (FTDI HW). I can communicate with BCC using COM 2 (in this case). BrickOS should be able to do the same... no real need for USB IR Tower. BrickOS supports communication via serial COM and USB IR Tower, plus ...

Yes, the setup for BrickOS is a bit involved. In addition to what was noted in the USB driver thread, another reason for my interest in a Linux distribution was providing a means to greatly reduce the complexity of the setup. Most of BrickOS is written in C, so it is well-suited to the Linux environ...

Thank you--I guess when I mentioned multi-platform, I should have mentioned that I am specifically interested in what might be available for Linux.

One of my thoughts in this area has been to create a lightweight Linux virtual machine and do a USB pass-through of the Lego USB IR Tower to the Linux VM. I have been working with the SliTaz distribution to create packages that would be of use for the RCX. Though I think it will work well in the lon...

I know in NQC, you can use the SetSerialComm, SetSerialPasket, SetSerialData, and SendSerial to send user unique serial strings with varying specs, and bytes. How do you receive a string of serial data though? I know you can use the typical Message() to get the last "message" that was sen...