I wonder if someone could explain to me what "Track protocol" means, please.

Next to the Booster Button on the Home ribbon menu there is a "button" labelled "Track protocol". (I asked Google Translate what it was in German and it came up with Track-Protokoll which is probably about as useful as its German to English translations of some of the long words on the LoDi website!). In the screenshot below, "Track protocol is off":



Clicking on the track button unsurprisingly turns the Track protocol on, see below.



What is "Track protocol"? Is it something I need to understand?
Thank you, in anticipation of your help,

Hello John,

Zitat

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What is the "track log"? Is this something I need to understand?
I look forward to your help and thank you,

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This button is used to switch the booster on and off, i.e. to switch the track log on and off, for example. I have never noticed this button until now, it was your question that made me try it out.

So I'm of the opinion that you don't need to understand it

Track is called "Track" in English and by protocol I mean DCC, MFX, MM etc

Best regards

Gian

(Translated by DeepL)

Thank you for your swift reply, Gian.
However, the two Rektor buttons - "Booster" & "Track protocol" on the English version do not seem to be representative of what is happening further down. It is difficult for me to be certain of the situation because I haven't yet connected my single Booster to the track - I'm still waiting for my baseboards and track to be delivered - but let me describe what I see:. To avoid confusion I am going to refer to the "Booster" button as the left button and the "Track protocol" as the right button.

I will start with the Booster off, both left button and right button are red, with the left button's tooltip (hint) displaying "all boosters are switched off" and the right button's tooltip displaying "Track protocol is off":

This is confirmed by the Booster display:


If I go back to the Rektor display and press the left button it changes from red green, with the right button remaining red, "Track protocol is off":

This is now confirmed by the LoDi-Bus display:


The next logical step would seem to be to press the right button, turning it from red to green, but the strange thing is it turns the left button off, green to red, "All boosters are switched off":

And it seems that it has indeed had that effect:


Now my next thought was to press the left button, because I want the Booster on, and it turns green, so we have two greens for the first time: "All boosters are switched on" and "Track protocol is on":

And, yes, the Booster is on:


Now, suppose I turn Channel A off by pressing the top button of the two on the Bus:

and you will note that the bottom channel is displaying "On". However, when we go back to the Rektor display, we find the left button is red "All boosters are switched off" and the right button is green "Track protocol is on":

which is, I think, wrong, because Channel B is "On".

I could continue in this vein, but I have other things to do today! Forgive me if I seem pedantic; that comes from a former programmer's mindset! I hope you can read the Ons and Offs - if not, you'll have to take my word for what they read.

You say you hadn't noticed the two buttons before, which does indicate that they may not be important. However, I would suggest that the logic behind them is faulty, so either they should be removed, or they should be programmed correctly. What do you think?

OK, I'm going to go back to my AnyRail and iTrain layouts now....

All the best,

Hello John,
It's a little different for and beginner. This model lodi Booster in fact consists of two power outputs that you can also address separately on a status on or off but also Railcom on or off.
The Interface Lodi rektor also clearly shows this in the Booster monitor.
The nice thing is that you have two separate power circuits at your disposal.
A godsend, especially for large layouts.

In Itrain, you can also indirectly build a circuit by assigning a turnout or feedback to a Booster.
Better create a schematic and then assign the booster.



In Widigipet it's easy, you select the booster and then assign the booster area. Blue lozenges .



B.T.W,
nice to have another lover of the English way to running trains.
yours sincerely,
Rupert