The primary tool for working with all ESU products is called the LokProgrammer. You do not have to own one of these although it does make working with ESU products so much easier. IMHO, you don’t need a manual if you have a LokProgrammer.
LokProgrammer is ALWAYS THE MOST CURRENT SOURCE OF CV INFORMATION since it gets updated regularly as the product is updated.
The LokProgrammer is not mandatory. It is ONLY REQUIRED TO UPDATE FIRMWARE AND LOAD SOUNDFILES. All other programming can be done with your command station or via JMRI/Decoder Pro. Of course there are a few caveats. They should not be programmed with certain systems that have known issues with programming CV’s 256 and higher.
Systems known to have issues include Digitrax Zephyr, Digitrax DT400 Throttle and prior, as well as the NCE Power House systems using POM.
You should also be sure to have the most current version of JMRI/Decoder Pro as early versions (pre-2015-ish) did not work properly.
The LokProgrammer hardware is the only way to establish a communication link between the decoder and a computer. This is the easiest way to edit CVs.
You can still use the LokProgrammer software as a CV calculator even if you do not own the LokProgrammer hardware.
Download and install the software from the ESU website downloads page here…
http://www.esu.eu/en/downloads/software/lokprogrammer/
Then download the requested sound file from the ESU website and open in LokProgrammer. All of the CVs in your file will match the file loaded on the decoder.
Now you can edit the file to customize the settings to your preferences then select the Show Changed CV’s option from the Tools menu.
This will open a dialog box that shows each of the CVs to change to implement your selections. Use your own DCC system to manually program the CVs values as indicated then rename and save the file for reference later.