Roco smartRail Stationary Loop Rail Instruction Manual

smartRail
Stationary Loop Rail
Rails roulants
Based on our Z21 system
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Manual

smartRail Stationary Loop Rail

Thank you for choosing smartRail!
Use smartRail for perfect staging of your most beautiful locomotives: The intelligent stationary loop rail with integrated digital command centre stages your steam, diesel- and E-locomotives optimally on an elegant platform – in driving operation and with access to all digital functions. This way, you can activate locomotive sound, front illumination, steam or the digitally controlled current collectors for the first time even for locomotives in a showcase, on a shelf or on your desk.
Your DC and AC locomotives are activated easily and fast with the smartRail touch panel. Alternatively, you can use a series of external devices for control – for instance your WLAN-compatible Smartphone or a photorealistic control stand on your tablet PC.
The following pages will show you how all this works. Have fun with smartRail!

Legal Information
Before putting smartRail into operation, please note the following information:

• When combining ROCO or Fleischmann components with products by third party manufacturers, we provide no warranty in case of damage or malfunction.
• If the smartRail case is opened your claim to warranty is voided.
• Connections should only be made when the operating voltage is switched off!
• Work carefully: Incorrect connections may destroy digital components. If necessary, ask your specialised dealer for help.
• Never connect an analogue transformer or other digital systems or command centre to the same or adjoining current circuits. This may destroy smartRail!
• The lenses of the infrared sensors must not be touched and scratched!
• When operating a locomotive with steam generator, the Plexiglas cover must be removed.
• Store and operate only at room temperature!
• Do not set up near radiators or in places with direct sunlight!
• Avoid major fluctuations of temperature and air humidity!
• The sensors work optically and can be blinded. Therefore, avoid excessive exposure to light. This may cause an unintentional emergency stop.
• Do not operate smartRail with glass hood as this may interfere with the sensors.
• The manufacturer does not guarantee that smartRail is compatible with all locomotive geometries.
• The maximum speed of the locomotives is regulated down to the maximum speed of the roller dynamometer.
• Depending on their geometry, the locomotives must have a length of 120mm to 305mm.
• Depending on their geometry, smaller locomotives must be driven with carriages attached.

smartRail – Overview of the functions

smartRail is an intelligent stationary loop rail with integrated Z21 technology and integrated WLAN router. smartRail allows you to drive your most beautiful digital DC and AC locomotives in your showcase or on your desk in standstill – while switching on all digital functions of the models.
The locomotives are controlled easily and comfortably with the elegantly integrated touch panel or with external control devices – generally a Smartphone with Z21 mobile app, a tablet PC with a Z21 control stand app or a classic multiMAUS. smartRail supports all iOS and Android-based models.
Overview of the functions:

• Intelligent stationary loop rail with integrated Z21 technology
• For analogue DC locomotives as well as all digital DC and AC locomotives (DCC, MM; automatic detection)
• Simulated driving operation in the showcase, on the shelf or on your desk
• Comfortable access to all digital functions
• Integrated WLAN router for comfortable remote control
• Locomotive controls and locomotive programming via
• iOS- or Android-based Smartphones and tablet PCs or the multiMAUS

Touch panel
Top side

Connections
Bottom side

LED-Übersicht
Key “ ”

• Blue: Standby
• White: On

Keys F1-F4, “ ”

• Dark: Function off
• Light: Function on

Taste „ “

• Blinks red for a long time with short intervals: Please set the locomotive on the rails.

• Glows red permanently: The locomotive was measured successfully. Search for the locomotive address can be started. Scanning is indicated by sequential light of the function keys.

• Glows pale red: No locomotive was found in the scanning process.

• Glows white: Locomotive stop

• Blink red: Short circuit or sensor interruption. Reactivation via “ ” key.

• Do not set up smartRail near radiators or in places with direct sunlight!

• Do not set up smartRail in an environment with major fluctuations of temperature and air humidity!

During operation, do not reach into the infrared signals of the sensors! If the sensors do not continuously measure the distance of the locomotive, automatic length control will trigger an Emergency Stop. Ensure that the lenses are not touched or scratched.
When reading out the locomotive address, smartRail automatically recognises whether it is a two-rail or a three-rail locomotive.

smartRail – Operation on the touch panel

The following pages will show you how to put smartRail into operation and how you control your favourite locomotives on the integrated touch panel.
1.1. How to connect smartRail

1. Plug the supplied switching power supply (20V DC/52VA) into the bottom part of the smartRail.
2. Place smartRail on your desk, on a shelf or in a showcase, so that it is easily accessible.
3. Plug the switching power supply into the power socket. Ensure that you do not touch the touch panel when plugging in or in the following 5 seconds, because the touch field is calibrated when started. In operation, the touch panel tunes to its environment.
4. The “ ” key lights blue (“standby”).
5. To switch on, press the blue “ ” key. The diode now glows white.

1.2. How to put smartRail into operation

1. a. If your locomotive has not yet been set on the rails, the “ ” key starts blinking (long on, short off). smartRail indicates this way that you can now set your locomotive on the rails.
   b. Once the locomotive is set on the rails, the “ key glows red.

2. The red light of the “ ” key indicates that the locomotive on the rails was measured.

3. Now press the “ ” key to read out the locomotive address. The scanning process is indicated by sequential light of the light and function keys. Read-out takes a few seconds.

4. If the locomotive is not compatible for reading out or cannot be read out, smartRail will successively check all locomotive addresses. This may take several minutes.

5. a. When the locomotive address is successfully read out the function keys and the direction keys begin glowing in a dimmed white, they can now be activated. The left arrow “  ” and the “ ” key will glow bright white. SmartRail is activated and ready to start.
   b. If no locomotive is found, the “ ” key glows pale red. If you are operating smartRail with your touch panel, locomotive address 3 is automatically used.

1.3. How to put your locomotive on rails

1. Carefully set the locomotive onto the smartRail track, manually or using railing equipment.
2. As long as your hand is within the read-out range of the sensors, the smartRail remains in stand-by mode. This is indicated by continuous red blinking of the “ ” button.
3. Only when the locomotive has come to a complete standstill and your hand has left the read-out range will the “ ” begin to glow red.

1.4. How you control your locomotive with smartRail

1. Move your finger right to left over the left slider area (the field between the symbols “ ” and “ ”), and the locomotive drives to the left.
2. The more you move your finger to the left, the faster the locomotive becomes. smartRail automatically recognises the speed at which the model is moving and will regulate track speed so that the locomotive always remains in the same position. Please note that the delayed speed regulation may cause slight movements forward or back – in the range of 1 to 2 centimetres.
3. Move your finger left to right over the right slider area (the field between the symbols “ ” and “ ”), and the locomotive drives to the right.
4. Tap the “ ” button to stop your locomotive.
5. Tap the “ ” button to switch the front light of your locomotive on and off.
6. Tap the function keys “F1” to “F4” to switch the factory-set functions 1 to 4 of the locomotive programmed in the decoder.
7. Tapp the “ ” button to switch off smartRail.

This is how scanning of locomotive addresses works:

1. smartRail reads out the short CV1 as well as the long CV17/18 address.
2. If the read out is unsuccessful, automatic locomotive search is started. In this process, all addresses are checked and the system waits for a reaction of the locomotive; this may take several minutes. To abbreviate this time, smartRail will check the most recently controlled locomotives first. The process can be cancelled by Smartphone or multiMAUS driving command.
3. If no locomotive is found, the stop key switches to pale red. The panel then automatically switches locomotive address 3; other addresses are only accessible by Smartphone or multiMAUS.

Changing the factory setting of the functions for a locomotive or switching additional F-keys requires an external control device: This can be a Smartphone or a tablet PC (see page 34) or a classic multiMAUS (see page 40).

1.5. Reset and update of smartRail
If smartRail does not function faultlessly, please reset the integrated Z21 digital command centre to the
factory settings:

1. Hold the “ ” button down for 5 seconds. The LED begins to blink blue.
2. After that, the factory settings of smartRail have been reset. If the digital system still does not react faultlessly, please ask your specialised dealer for help.

When your Smartphone or your tablet PC is connected to the internet, you can look for software updates for your apps and for the Z21 fi rmware integrated in smartRail at the App Store and at Google Play in the area “Updates”.

1.6. Fault conditions

• Short circuit: Function keys and arrow keys remain dark white. The “ ” key blinks red.
• Sensor error due to contact interruption or due to locomotives that are too short and positioned too closely to the sensor or locomotives that cannot be controlled: All keys except the on / off switch turn off. The “ ” key blinks red.
• Limited touch operation: If the “ ” key glows pale red, the scanning procedure did not fi nd a locomotive.

External control units: Smartphone, tablet PC, multiMAUS

The touch panel is the easiest, fastest and most comfortable way to control your locomotives on smartRail. However, there are good reasons to use a Smartphone, a tablet PC or a multiMAUS as external control device – for instance:

• To use more than only the four basic functions (F1 to F4) of your locomotives.
• To program your locomotives – maybe to re-defi ne function assignment, driving stages, start-up and braking behaviour or top speed.
• To control your locomotives remotely.

The following pages will tell you what you need to know to connect and operate external end devices to smartRail.

Our Z21 app currently supports devices with iOS Version 11 and higher or with Android Version 5 and higher in order to guarantee full functionality.
Tablets and smartphones with an older system version can access our temporary app at any time, which is also available in the App Store and Google Play Store.

Operation with Smartphone/tablet PC and Z21 mobile app

3.1. Installation of the Z21 mobile app

• Make sure that your smartphone or tablet PC is connected to the Internet.
• When using an iPad or an iPhone, use the AppStore.
• When using an android smartphone or tablet phone, change to Google Play.
• Use the search function to look for the “Z21”. Install the app.
• Start the app. The start-up screen displays. Let’s go!

3.2. How to register the end device
IApart from the integrated control electronics, the elegant smartRail body also contains a powerful WLAN router which you can use to control and update the system. To do so, you fi rst have to register your Smartphone or your tablet PC with the smartRail WLAN:

• Switch smartRail on using the blue button.
• The WLAN module starts and is ready after ca. 15 seconds.
• On your Smartphone/tablet PC, switch into network settings.
• The smartRail WLAN appears in the list of networks within reach.
• The network is called “smartRail_xyz“. The number sequence “xyz” is on the bottom of your smartRail.
• Tap the network name. Enter the password for network registration. It is in the fi eld “Password” on the bottom of smartRail. Done!

WLAN registration

Discover the world of digital model railways through play!

The innovative control using the Z21 app
The Z21 app gives you the benefi t of a whole range of new functions and options that you can use to design your digital model railway for an even more exciting experience.
It permits you to create a detailed locomotive library. There you can import all locomotive-specifi c data as well as important control information (such as locomotive address, speed steps, locomotive functions and maximum speed). In addition, the Z21 system can also be operated using several different input devices (such as multiMAUS and the Z21 app) simultaneously

Here is the link to the video:
Z21 app Tutorial – Control centrehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRSJE6CRzjQ

Download in the App Store for iOS or in the Google Play Store for Android! The app is available as a free download and can also be tested without using a Z21 system.

Tablet display

Smartphone display

You take control!

Photorealistic driver’s cabs for more playing fun
The digital world of model railways has lots of advantages: one of these being that you can take control of your trains yourself via the virtual driver’s cab! In your role as train driver, you will be delighted by the photorealistic representation of the driver’s cabs,  which are equipped with original switches, operating elements from the respective locomotive prototype, and interactive control units. Every knob or lever relevant for control of the vehicles can be selected, and have exactly the same effect on your locomotive as they would on the prototypes.
In addition, we are adding 3 more locomotives! After this, the Z21 app will feature 11 individual driver’s cabs, for example the ETA 515 accumulator mobile unit, which are just waiting for you to drive them.

Here is the link to the video:
Z21 app tutorial – Driver’s cabhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwm-Z90Tncs

1. Speed display
2. Driving current and battery voltage display
3. Speed steps switch for retrofi tting and accelerating| 4. Brake lever
5. Door control for opening and closing
6. Function keys for operation
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Operation with multiMAUS

If you already own a digital ROCO or Fleischmann model train, you can alternatively operate your locomotives on smartRail with your familiar multiMAUS.
The multiMAUS is simply connected to the X-BUS socket on the bottom of the smartRail.
The multiMAUS can be used to access all functions, programming tools and libraries with smartRail, that are available on your system. Here, smartRail is the main track as well as the programming track.
For details on how to operate the multiMAUS, please refer to its operating manual.

Care instructions

• Care of the wooden parts
  If necessary, clean the wooden parts with a damp cloth. Please use only water and do not use any additional cleaning or care products.

• Care of the black Plexiglas
  Always use a dry cloth to clean the black Plexiglas, because the Plexiglas rests next to the smartRail track –- which should never get wet.

• Care of the sensors
  Ensure that the sensors are always dust-free! For cleaning only use guaranteed scratch-free cloths – e.g. those for cleaning glasses.

• Care of the track
  Oil the track lightly and carefully if necessary with the ROCO oiler (art. no. 10906).

We reserve the right to change the construction and design!
Please retain these instructions for further reference!

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