Signals.

Toolbar

On a narrow screen each control folds into an icon menu. Your choices are remembered on this device.

Marker 1ViewSegmented buttons

How dense the list is. With the Head control, Compact gives you a panel of heads, Comfy a big head with a button per aspect, and List a small head in each row. Table adds a Pins column.Options: List · Compact · Comfy · TableDefault: Compact

Marker 2ControlSegmented buttons

How you change a signal.Options: Head (tap the lamps) · Button (one round button in the current aspect's colour; each tap steps to the next wired aspect, then Off)Default: Head

Marker 3FilterMenu

Narrow the list by Devices or Tags. Picks in one group widen the list (this or that); picks across groups narrow it. Active filters show as chips you can clear.

Marker 4SortMenu

The order of the signals.Options: Default (your own order) · Name · DeviceDefault: Default

SearchButton → text field

The magnifier opens “Search signals...”. It matches signal names only.

Marker 5Add signalButton (＋)

Opens New Signal. Owner only.

Each signal

LampsTap targets

Tap a dark lamp to show that aspect. Tap the lit lamp to turn the signal off. Lamps that aren't wired don't respond. On a searchlight, each tap on the lens steps to the next aspect.

Red · Yellow · Green · Off · FlashButtons (Comfy)

One button per wired aspect, plus Off. Flash makes the lit aspect pulse; it's greyed out while the signal is dark.

AspectStatus

The current aspect in words: “Off”, “Red”, “Flashing Yellow” and so on, with the device and pins.

Feedback dotDisplay

On signals driven over DCC: “Commanded, no feedback”. DCC signals can't report back, so this is what DEJA last sent.

⋮Menu (heads)

Options for the signal, with Edit for the owner.

EditPencil button (cards)

Opens the signal's editor. You can also long-press. Owner only.

Identity

Marker 1Signal NameText field · required

The display name for this signal, e.g. “Yard Exit”.

Marker 2Default AspectDropdown

The aspect the signal shows when you save it. Only lamps you've wired are offered; remove a lamp's pin and the choice clears.Options: Off · Red · Yellow · Green (wired lamps only)Default: Off

Marker 3DescriptionText box

Optional notes about the signal's location or wiring.

Marker 4TagsChips · multi-select

Group signals by area so you can filter by them. Tags are created in Settings → Layout → Tags, not here.

Configuration

Marker 5DeviceChip → dialog · required

The hardware device that controls this signal. Tap it to open Select Device, pick a board, then Save. A new signal starts on the first device in your layout, so check it's the right one.

Driven byPins · DCC

Only when the device is your EX-CommandStation: pins on the command station itself, or a signal decoder addressed with DCC accessory commands. DCC swaps the pin rows for the DCC mapping below.Default: Pins

Decoder outputDropdown · required

Only when the device is a DCC accessory decoder: the output this signal is wired to. Signal-type outputs are listed first; greyed outputs are already used.

Marker 6Head TypeSegmented buttons

Discrete lamps: a separate LED per aspect, one pin each — wire only the lamps the head has. Searchlight: one bi-colour LED on two pins, where yellow is the red and green elements lit together. That matches most searchlight signals.Default: Discrete lamps

Marker 7Red PinNumber field

The pin for the red LED. Leave it blank if the head has no red lamp. On a searchlight it reads Red Element Pin.

Marker 8Yellow PinNumber field

The pin for the yellow LED, blank if absent. Greyed out on a searchlight — it makes yellow from red and green.

Marker 9Green PinNumber field

The pin for the green LED, blank if absent. On a searchlight it reads Green Element Pin.

Signal readoutDisplay

A live summary under the pins, e.g. “3-aspect signal (Red / Yellow / Green)” or “2-aspect searchlight (Red / Green) on 2 pins”. It turns red if there's nothing to control yet: a signal needs at least one lamp, and a searchlight needs both elements.

Marker 10Wiring TypeSwitch

How the LEDs share a wire. Common Cathode (off) when the LEDs share a negative wire; Common Anode (on) when they share a positive one. Check your signal's instructions. If every lamp lights except the one you picked, flip this.Default: Common Cathode

Marker 11FlashingSwitch

Pulses the default aspect instead of showing it steady — a flashing yellow, say. Greyed out until you pick a Default Aspect other than Off.Default: Off

Marker 12Cancel · SaveButtons

Save writes the signal, sets it to its Default Aspect and returns to Signals. If something's missing it tells you — “Set at least one lamp pin (red, yellow, or green).”, for example.

Delete signal

Only when editing.

Marker 13Delete signalButton → confirm

Removes the signal from the layout. It asks once, right there — Cancel or Delete. This can't be undone.

DCC mapping

Extended (<A>) · Basic (<a> pairs)Segmented buttons

Extended sends one address with an aspect number — the modern way for signal decoders that support it. Basic uses ordinary accessory addresses, with each aspect made from one or more address-and-direction pairs. Check your decoder's manual for which it speaks.

2-aspect (red / green) · 3-aspect (red / yellow / green) · Searchlight (one head, R / Y / G)Preset buttons

Fill in a typical mapping for that kind of head. Adjust anything afterwards.

Signal addressLinear or Addr / sub (Extended)

The decoder's DCC accessory address for this head.

Aspect #Number field per aspect (Extended)

The aspect number, 0–31, that shows red, yellow or green on your decoder.

Linear · Closed / ThrownPairs per aspect (Basic)

Each pair is an accessory address and a direction. Add pair adds another; ✕ removes one.

TestButton per aspect

Shows that aspect on the real signal. It tests the saved mapping, so save first to try your edits.