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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
peteski7
Thanks for that info Gregg
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The description of your "other" group states: "Hi, this a forum I started so we have a QSI Solutions forum that is controlled by the QSI solutions people. I'm working with Josh to manage the last of the stock of decoders, and am looking into what it would take to make more of the G scale Titan. Note this is QSI Solutions, not QS Industries" That is interesting. I thought that Josh Shedaker was totally out of the picture. No? Your group's description seems to indicate that he is still involved with OSI decoders? If so, then you and him probably have the latest in the sound files for all the decoders and Quantum Programmer. Not sure then why you are asking where to find the latest versions (other than is on Josh's website). To be honest, having two separate companies managing a line of sound decoders is a bit awkward, but it is what it is. It is not your doing either. MAybe that is the reason QSI and QSI-S ended up where it is now - at what it seems to be a dead end. Those Revolution and Titan decoders were way ahead of its time when they were developed. I can't even imagine what the next generation woudl look like if the company thrived instead of fading away. I suspect thay woudl give ESU and ZIMO run for their money. I'm still amazed at the functionality and programmability of the Revolution decoder in my Walthers//Life-Like N scale 2-8-8-2 loco. The 400+ pages manual clearly speaks to that decoder's capabilities. And that was back about 14 years ago! That decoder still has the most accurate BEMF-synched chuffs from any other sound decoder I have worked with. Peteski
On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 05:18 PM, Greg Elmassian wrote: Well, if you use the "find or create group" at the top of the page, and put QSI in the search, you would find: https://groups.io/g/QSI-Solutions
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
Greg Elmassian
Well, if you use the "find or create group" at the top of the page, and put QSI in the search, you would find: https://groups.io/g/QSI-Solutions
Greg
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
Jay Beckham
Greg
Where is the QSI Solution Group you manage?
Thanks
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From: QSIndustries@groups.io <QSIndustries@groups.io> On Behalf Of Greg Elmassian
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 9:40 PM To: QSIndustries@groups.io Subject: Re: [QSIndustries] Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
[Edited Message Follows] This software is used for all QSI updates, the Titans are current manufacture, right? (O scale one is for sale on their site.)
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
This software is used for all QSI updates, the Titans are current manufacture, right? (O scale one is for sale on their site.)
So, based on the many updates for these 2 programs, I find it hard to believe there have been no updates in the years since Josh went away. Sure would like a comment from a QS Industries employee. Greg P.S. I uploaded the latest versions of the 2 programs to the QSI Solutions group, which I manager. All are welcome to join.
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
Lou
QSIS is the owner of some of the decoder designs, and sound files, and software. Since QSIS is long gone there are not and will no longer be updates. There really is no need for updates as the product hasn't changed since the last version was deleted. Lou
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 2:18 AM Greg Elmassian <greg@...> wrote: Kelly, is there any issue with having CVManager and Quantum update in the files section of this forum? I also "own" the QSI Solutions forum on groups.io, so I could put what I have there in the files, but would seek OK from QS Industries first.
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Re: Quantum programmer not functioning
Joó Ferenc
Thank you Greg and Peteski, Upon receiving a hint that such issues have already been discussed in the group archives, I was able to check that probably the 2 Ohm resistor in the Programmer is damaged. I will first try to replace this and then try again. Üdvözlettel, Best regards, MfG, Ferenc Joó Correspondent for Hungary TREU - Today's Railways Europe IRJ - International Railway Journal GSM: +36204141621 NOHAB Apartment 8263 Badacsonytördemic Debreczenyi u. 9. / HUNGARY "The holiday apartment on Lake Balaton with its own garden railway!" peteski7 via groups.io <peteski7=yahoo.com@groups.io> ezt írta (időpont: 2021. jan. 27., Sze, 2:47):
Hmm . . . the buzz and flashing red light seems to me to indicate a hardware problem. Is the loco you are trying to access with the Quantum programmer fully functional? Can you run it problem-free on your regular DCC system?
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Re: Quantum programmer not functioning
peteski7
Hmm . . . the buzz and flashing red light seems to me to indicate a hardware problem. Is the loco you are trying to access with the Quantum programmer fully functional? Can you run it problem-free on your regular DCC system?
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What model is it? What decoder is installed? Peteski
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 02:39 AM, Joó Ferenc wrote:
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
peteski7
Greg,
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I'm fairly certain that what is on Josh's site is the latest versions of everything. QS Industries has not been very active in developing new software. So there is a "sister" group called 'QSI Solutions" on group.io? How active is it? I also wonder if you will be able to upload anything to this group - I tried and was not able to. I contacted the group owner about it, but I never received a reply. Peteski
On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 02:18 AM, Greg Elmassian wrote: Kelly, is there any issue with having CVManager and Quantum update in the files section of this forum? I also "own" the QSI Solutions forum on groups.io, so I could put what I have there in the files, but would seek OK from QS Industries first.
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Re: Quantum programmer not functioning
Greg Elmassian
That looks like an error from the Silicon labs driver.
Let me ask a few things: 1. what version of firmware is on your programmer 2. what version of CV Manager are you using 3. what version of Quantum Update are you using? 4 running Quantum update, can you read the loco firmware from the decoder? Greg
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Re: Quantum programmer not functioning
Joó Ferenc
Greg, When I try to turn on the sound with F6 or the lights with F0 (i.e. not driving the motors), I get the messages. I am not sure what you mean by JMRI throttle. Is that the built-in throttle of the Quantum CV Manager? As I only used the QSI supplied Quantum CV Manager. One error message I get says: SI_Read requested=4 read=2 The other: SI_Read returns SI_REAF_TIMED_OUT There is a very quiet short buzz from the programmer and the red light starts blinking quickly. Thanks! Üdvözlettel, Best regards, MfG, Ferenc Joó Correspondent for Hungary TREU - Today's Railways Europe IRJ - International Railway Journal GSM: +36204141621 NOHAB Apartment 8263 Badacsonytördemic Debreczenyi u. 9. / HUNGARY "The holiday apartment on Lake Balaton with its own garden railway!" Greg Elmassian <greg@...> ezt írta (időpont: 2021. jan. 26., K, 8:15):
It is not common for the programmer to fail.
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
Greg Elmassian
Kelly, is there any issue with having CVManager and Quantum update in the files section of this forum? I also "own" the QSI Solutions forum on groups.io, so I could put what I have there in the files, but would seek OK from QS Industries first.
And finally, can you tell me what the current version of each is? Clearly Josh's site has not been updated in a long time, so what is there for these programs must be out of date. Thanks, Greg
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Re: Quantum programmer not functioning
Greg Elmassian
It is not common for the programmer to fail.
But if you try to run a loco with the JMRI throttle, you can definitely destroy the output transistors drawing too much current. In general, do not do this with any G scale loco, confine yourself to exercising sounds, not the motor. But first, what exactly is the error message? Greg
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Re: Quantum programmer not functioning
Kevin Strong
My first guess would be that a Windows update did something to the drivers for the programmer. You can try to reinstall those and see if that makes a difference. (I don't know what platform you're using to run the driver, so I'm going to assume Windows 10. I run mine from an old XP machine which Microsoft no longer tries to update.)
Later,
K
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Quantum programmer not functioning
Joó Ferenc
I last used my programmer two months ago and it worked perfectly but doesn't now, I get some error message. Is it common for the Quantum Programmer to fail? Üdvözlettel / Best regards / MfG, Joó Ferenc / Ferenc Joó NOHAB Apartman Badacsonytördemic, Hungary http://nohabapartman.hu GSM: +36 20 4141 621 Sent from Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) phone
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
kelly dorf
Gentlemen.
I hear all of you, trust me. With all this covid stuff going on, my wife and I have been juggling shifts as well as the grandson. All of the files you seek are archived and property of QSI. Josh lost the rights when he bailed, however, some of his wix files are still out there. I have been tasked with updating the QSIndustries.com web page. Trust me, it wont look as snazzy as Josh's, but it should give you all the links you need. In the mean time, please feel free to email me at qsindustries224@.... Thanks for all your support. Kelly QSI
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
peteski7
Well Greg,
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AFAIK, the only person on this forum who *IS* QSI is Kelly. Not sure why he (or QSI) is not hosting the files in their website, but I seem to recall that even he referred QSI customers to Josh Shedaker's (partially broken) site for QSI sound files and other software/documentation downloads. What are we to do? I also suspect that Shedaker's website does in fact have the latest versions of the files - I don't recall any new products or sounds being released after Titan. Peteski
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 09:53 PM, Greg Elmassian wrote:
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
Jay Beckham
That may not be the official site but it is the only site as far as I know. Ask Terry from QSI if there is one.
Jay Beckham
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From: QSIndustries@groups.io <QSIndustries@groups.io> On Behalf Of Greg Elmassian
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021 9:54 PM To: QSIndustries@groups.io Subject: Re: [QSIndustries] Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
Ed.Sauers <dockside98@...>
Greg, The following is my opinion on the QSI support effort. Most of the members on this group are long term supporters of QSI, we stay in support of QSI because the Titan is still the best and most sophisticated DCC decoder on the market. We would all love to have more info., updates and new products but these things are going to take extra time due to the lose of Josh, QSI did not just loose one person, Josh was the QSI support arm, and with his exit QSI had to scramble to cover multiple areas of support without any prior notice. QSI Isn't Microsoft or Apple so when they lose a worker like Josh it could take years to recover from that (how many sound engineers would be willing to work for a model railroad decoder company?, I sure they are in demand) it would take a person that has a love for model railroading sounds and the model railroad hobby itself. Most of us are willing to wait and hope that QSI will some day be able to return to the level of support that was present before Josh made his exit but until then we wait patiently and hope for the best!. Ed Sauers
On 1/24/2021 9:53 PM, Greg Elmassian
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
Greg Elmassian
that is not OFFICIAL, note the topic title please!!!! Josh Shedaker is not an employee of QS Industries. Surely there is a new version by now. And that site is falling apart, files are disappearing... So, maybe I have to email one of the QS Industries people eventually... I'll wait a bit longer and see if one reads this thread. Greg
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Re: Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
Jay Beckham
https://shedaker.wixsite.com/shedaker
Jay Beckham
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From: QSIndustries@groups.io <QSIndustries@groups.io> On Behalf Of Greg Elmassian
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2021 6:23 PM To: QSIndustries@groups.io Subject: Re: [QSIndustries] Where is the official download site for CVManager and Quantum Upgrade programs?
[Edited Message Follows] Yeah, there's no place to get the latest (or even know the latest) version.
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