Thanks!
At the moment, real audio files can’t be used for timetable-driven announcements like “Next Stop” (though that’s a great idea!).

However, there are two ways to use your own sound files to enhance realism:

1. Service announcements
   When creating a service announcement, just prefix the file path with # to play your custom sound. You can manualy use them from the HUD.

2. Automation projects
   You can record a route as a project. While driving, place announcement POIs and link them to your sound files (again, prefix with #).
   Save the project, and during your next ride, just load it back in, your custom announcements will play automatically.

Check the help page for details:
👉 https://www.beensoft.nl/ThirdRails/Help/Announcementautomation.html

HUD mode is crashing for me unfortunately. Microsoft runtime error popping :(

🥹Please send report via email beentrain [@] gmail.com

Where is some log file? I want to send it to you.

Thanks for reporting. I have it also.
The db api I am hooking up is suddenly Forbidden. Will figure out a fix.

Update: Have fixed it. There is a hotfix available at thirdrails.org:
https://thirdrails.org/downloads.html?v9001

That's strange. Could you send the details to [email protected] ?
Then I can figure out what the problem is.

think it may have been that I removed the -httpapi from the shortcut, since the tutorial linked above said you only had to do it once I figured that meant it would set a flag in the settings permanently. I will see if readding the condition fixes the net framwork error.

yep this is why, readded the -httpapi command and it works fine. that being said the performance impact is quite large unfortunately, but it will be a lot of fun to play with once Im able to do some upgrading to my pc

Hmmm, have to admit I'm not too good with all that TCP/IP stuff, but chances are the API key isn't available on the PC where you're running ThirdRails.
It's generated by TSW and saved in your user profile at:
...Documents\My Games\TrainSimWorld5\Saved\Config\CommAPIKey.txt

You could simply copy it over from your gaming PC, that might just do the trick.

Yea I actually did copy the key from my main PC to the other one in the CommAPIKey.txt but no dice - that's what I thought as well; the app says it can't get the GPS signal - I was wondering if there was some other requirements that thirdrails needs to be met to actually interact with the API.

I also wanted to mention that I was inspecting the local traffic on Wireshark and when I run Thirdrails on my secondary device with the game itself - it makes the local tcp 31270 calls no problem; but when trying to use it without the game running but having the API available it's not even making calls to the endpoint - so my guess is there's some other condition in there - any guidance would be helpful

Oh I get it now. ThirdRails is checking if the game is running because it also can be used for TSC. It simply checks if there is a process called Trainsimworld (have to check) so a dummy app called Trainsimworld would do the trick.
I can provide it if you want to. Let me know.

Just confirming this works; if you set-up a dummy program called "TrainSimWorld.exe" you can run it on a standalone device as long as you proxy the API from your main PC to the secondary device.

This is what I did;

• Create a dummy program and call it "TrainSimWorld.exe" - theoretically you could even just copy the notepad executable and rename it and open it - that should satisfy the exe requirement
• On the primary PC run caddy (a webserver) through command line with the following options: caddy reverse-proxy --from :2080 --to http://localhost:31270
• On the secondary PC run caddy through command line with these options: caddy reverse-proxy --from :31270 --to http://{primary-pc-ip}:2080
• On the secondary PC run the dummy app

Now you should be able to track and broadcast ThirdRail on a separate device