open-interlocking

An open source self hosted interlocking (simulation). For example you can use opinterlockingerk to connect it to your model railway or railway in minecraft.

Translation table

The language of this project is english but you could know some german words:

German word	English word
Stellwerk	interlocking
Vorsignal	distant signal
Weiche	railroad switch
Bloecke	blocks (blocks are occupiable parts of a track)
Subbloecke	subblocks (one subblock per block for each direction (the same block will be reserved))
Fahrstrasse	a connection between two signals over railroad switches and blocks
Gleisbild	track diagram

Templating

You need to create a template file in which you explain how your track diagram should look like.

Give attention to this:

• Your distant signal names must start with 'V', your signal names must start with 'S', your railroad switch names must start with 'W', your block names must start with 'B' and the name of your subblocks must be the block name with lowercase letters added
• letter V, S, W and B must be followed by a number

The file has the following syntax:

# define distant signalsdistant_signals:
V1:
# define signalssignals:
S1:
distant_signals:
- V1# that means distant signal V1 is at the same location as S1S2:
# define railroad switchesswitches:
W1:
W2:
# define blocksblocks:
B1:
subblocks:
B1a: # subblock for Block B1start: W1# the subblock starts with railroad switch W1end: S1# the subblock ends with signal S1B1b: # subblock for Block B1start: W2end: S2relations:
signals:
S1:
following: W1S2:
following: W2previous: B1aswitches:
W1:
previous: S1following_straight_blade: B1following_bending_blade: B2

This example won't work as it's only to show how the file should be written. You want an example? Go to examples directory.

Also we have a yaml schema:

1. Your yaml file must have the open-interlocking.yaml or opinterlockingerk.yml file suffix.
2. If this doesn't work (because your client won't load the schema from schemastore.org) you can tell your yaml autocomplete extension the schema manually: template.schema.json

Api

Authorization

You must authorizate you with a Bearer token. Generate a new token by running open-interlocking with -g -c [GIVE_THE_TOKEN_A_COMPUTER_NAME]. You can supply a permission by adding -p permission (regex). The default permission is .+. Put the token in the Authorization header field.

The following permissions are available:

Permission	Description
state/ack	Acknowledge a state of a signal, distant signal or switch with POST.
occupy	Occupy blocks
connection/set	Set a connection between two signals
connection/desolve	Desolve a connection between two signals

There is a swagger/openapi specification: open-api.yml.

Method	Path	Description	Response
GET	/:kind/:name	Get the current state of a signal, distant_signal or switch	true or false
POST	/:kind/:name	Acknowledge the current_state. (first GET the state, be sure you set the signal before acknowledging it)	true or false (state)
GET	/connection/:signal1/:signal2	Get the connection between signal 1 and signal 2. (signal1 and signal2 are the name of the signal)	take a look at the open api specification.
POST	/connection/:signal1/:signal2	Set a connection between these two signals.	take a look at the open api specification.
DELETE	/connection/:signal1/:signal2	Desolve the connection between these two signals.	take a look at the open api specification.
POST	/block/occupy/:from/:to/:action	Occupy the block 'to' (switch or block e.g. W1 or B1) (action = join or leave)	'success'

RailroadConnection state

connection.state is integer with this value:

Integer	State
0	Connection ain't set
1	Connection waiting until the switches acknowledged
2	Connection waiting until the signals/distant signals acknowledged
3	Connection set
4	Connection desolving

Block / Switch reserved

block.reserved / switch.reserved is integer with this value:

Integer	State
0	Block is not reserved
1	Block is reserving (waiting until the connection is set )
2	Block is reserved for a connection
3	Block is occupied by a train