Fusee User Guide

What Fusee Does

Everything happens on the phone. There is no account to make, no signal needed, and nothing leaves the device. Fusee works the same in the basement, in the barn, or at a show with no Wi-Fi at all.

Activities and Action Elements

Three things worth knowing:

• Action Elements are the smallest pieces—a hand brake being wound, a radio call, a walk between cars.
• Activities are the jobs you actually run, built from those elements. Fusee ships with a full set and you can build your own.
• Your throttle matters. Fusee asks what you run trains with, and that decides what happens when an Activity is over.

The Activity library is grouped by the kind of work: Inspection, Movement, Coupling, Securement, Safety, Industry, and End of Shift.

Install Fusee

Fusee is on Google Play. Search for Fusee by Railworks Studio, tap Install, and let Play keep it updated automatically—new versions arrive on their own over Wi-Fi.

Your First Run

Open Fusee and tap Start Operating. You land on the Conductor Activities list, grouped the way a shift actually runs.

1. Tap Start Operating.
2. Pick an Activity from the library.
3. It starts immediately and the steps tick off as they complete.
4. When it finishes, tap Done to return to the list.

Starting an Activity

Tap an Activity. It starts immediately and the steps tick off as they complete.

Pause and Stop

• Pause holds everything, sound included. Tap again to carry on where you left off.
• Stop Activity ends it and returns you to the list.

Intentional Waiting and Continue

Some Activities wait for you on purpose. Couple Cars stops at the point where you would go work the throttle, and waits for you to tap Continue. Its hand-off point sits in the middle of the job, exactly where a real conductor would go work the throttle.

Activity Progress

The current step is highlighted, completed steps are ticked and struck through, and the bar at the bottom is the progress of the whole job.

The bar holds just short of the end while a clip is still finishing.

When an Activity Finishes

A finished Activity offers you two things, and never asks you to resume something that is already done.

Run Again and Done

• Run Again starts the same Activity over from the first step. This is the one you want when the next boxcar needs the same treatment.
• Done closes back to the Activity list.

Build short Activities for anything you repeat. Run Again then covers a whole row of cars with one tap each time.

A finished Activity is never offered as Resume. With Vector and Automatic Return, the finished screen is not shown at all—see Automatic Return.

Leaving Fusee During an Activity

An Activity keeps running while you are in another app. Nothing auto-pauses. When you come back, Fusee brings it up where it was—still running, or already finished with Run Again and Done waiting. Nothing is thrown away behind your back, and nothing clears itself on a timer.

Physical Throttle

A handheld throttle in your hand. There is nothing on the phone to go back to, so a running Activity shows only Pause and Stop Activity. When it finishes you get Run Again and Done, and you pick your throttle back up.

With Physical Throttle selected, no Return Behavior section appears in Settings.

External WiFi Throttle

A throttle app such as Engine Driver or WiThrottle. Return to Throttle steps Fusee aside into the background so you can bring your throttle app forward—from the recent-apps view or its icon. Your Activity keeps running the whole time, and switching back to Fusee drops you straight into it.

Vector

Railworks Studio’s own throttle on the same phone. Return to Throttle switches to Vector directly. Coming back from Vector reopens the Activity you left, still running, with its sound and timing intact.

Return to Throttle

The Return to Throttle button is shown during a run for app throttles only—External WiFi Throttle and Vector. The Activity keeps running either way.

Manual Return

You tap Return to Throttle when you are ready. At the end you get the finished screen with Run Again and Done.

Automatic Return

The moment an Activity finishes, Fusee goes straight to Vector. Nothing is shown in between. When you switch back to Fusee you are on the Activity list, and you tap the Activity again for another round.

Return Behavior only appears when you have picked Vector, because Vector is the only throttle Fusee can open for you.

Mid-Activity Throttle Moves: Couple Cars

Couple Cars is the exception in both Return modes: its hand-off point sits in the middle of the job, exactly where a real conductor would go work the throttle, and it waits for your Continue. See Intentional Waiting and Continue.

Couldn’t Return to Vector

Automatic return depends on Vector being installed on the same phone. If Fusee tries to switch to Vector and it cannot be opened, the Activity does not simply disappear. Fusee stops and tells you what happened:

• Settings opens your throttle settings.
• Activities returns to the library.

Most often this means Vector is not installed, or it was removed. You can keep using Fusee exactly as before by choosing Physical Throttle or External WiFi Throttle in Settings, or by switching Return Behavior back to Manual.

This notice only appears when both automatic launch attempts report that nothing opened.

Throttle Type

Pick what you actually run trains with: Physical Throttle, External WiFi Throttle, or Vector. This decides what Return to Throttle does and what happens at the end of a job. Each choice is explained under Using Fusee With Your Throttle.

Return Behavior

This choice only appears when you have picked Vector, because Vector is the only throttle Fusee can open for you.

• Manual—you tap Return to Throttle when you are ready. At the end you get the finished screen with Run Again and Done.
• Automatic—the moment an Activity finishes, Fusee goes straight to Vector. Nothing is shown in between.

Sound Effects

The field audio: brakes, couplers, gates, air. The toggle is at the bottom of Settings.

Radio Chatter

The crew calls. Turn it off if you would rather do the talking—for instance, when you are operating with a crew who do their own calling.

Vibration Feedback

A light tap as steps advance and complete.

Appearance

FUSEE Dark for the layout room, FUSEE Light for daylight and bright spaces. The layout is the same in both; only the contrast changes.

Entering Admin Mode

Tap the person icon on the home screen and enter your PIN. Admin Mode can also be entered from the Activities screen. The unlock lasts for the session only.

Admin PIN

The starting PIN is 1234—change it under Change PIN.

Editing and Deleting Activities

In Admin Mode the editing tools appear above the library, and each Activity gains an edit row and a delete button:

• New Activity—build one from scratch.
• The pencil beside any Activity—edit it.
• The trash icon beside any Activity—delete just that one. Everything else stays as it is. Fusee asks first.

Restore Defaults

Restore Defaults puts the whole shipped library back, replacing your edits. Fusee asks first.

Change PIN

Use Change PIN in Admin Mode to replace the starting PIN with your own.

Forgotten PIN

There is no PIN recovery. Clearing the app’s data on the phone resets the PIN—and the Activity library with it.

Create New Activity

From Admin Mode tap New Activity. Give it a name, choose a category, then build it from the Action Elements listed below in groups. The Builder is only available in Admin Mode.

Action Elements

The Action Library lists every element in groups, with a search field to find one quickly.

Adding Steps

Tap an element to add it to the end of your Activity. It confirms straight away: the element you tapped turns highlighted and reads Added, the new step flashes in the list above, and the phone gives a light tap.

Arranging Steps

Every step in your list has its own controls, so nothing depends on dragging:

• The up and down arrows move a step earlier or later—add one in the wrong place and just nudge it.
• Tap a step to adjust its timing.

Timing

Each step has an editable seconds field. Tap a step to adjust how long it takes.

Duplicate and Delete

• Duplicate copies a step, handy for repeated moves.
• Delete removes it.

The copy and trash icons are on each step, shown above under Arranging Steps.

Preview

Preview walks the timing of your Activity so you can feel its length and rhythm. It is timing only—no audio plays in preview.

Save and Name Conflicts

Save stores the Activity in the library. If the name is already taken, Fusee tells you instead of quietly overwriting the other one. Names are matched without regard to case, and nothing is ever overwritten silently.

Unsaved Changes

Cancel backs out, and warns you first if you have unsaved changes: Discard Changes or Keep Editing.

During an Activity

While an Activity is running and on screen, Back sets Fusee aside—the Activity keeps running. The Resume bar brings it back.

Minimized or Set-Aside Activity

If the Activity is already set aside, Back brings it back on screen.

Activity Builder

In the Builder with unsaved edits, Back asks before discarding them—the same Discard Changes / Keep Editing choice as Cancel.

Home Screen

On the home screen, Back asks whether you want to leave Fusee: choose Leave or Stay. It never closes silently.

Only Stop Activity ends a job early. Back never does.