https://www.ringingforums.org/categories/11/ringing-simulators-and-software/feed.rss Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:03:12 Z RINGING SIMULATORS AND SOFTWARE - Ringing Forums en https://www.ringingforums.org/discussion/569/bell-position-monitor-for-use-with-ringing-simulators Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:32:30 Z Brian Plummer 569@/discussions BPM (Bell Position Monitor) is a system I developed and built that provides an interface between tower bells and ringing simulator applications such as Abel, Virtual Belfry and BelTower. BPM consists of opto-sensors on the bell wheels, which determine the position of each bell within its swing. The... https://www.ringingforums.org/discussion/504/code-for-turning-place-notation-into-bell-numbers Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:23:08 Z Rosalind Martin 504@/discussions Does anyone have any code for transforming place notation into a list of bells, ie: 1 5 turns into 12345 21435 24153 42513 45231 54321 etc etc I'm writing in Excel VBA but I would be happy to translate from something else! Thanks. https://www.ringingforums.org/discussion/302/pealbase-query Tue, 09 May 2023 14:36:39 Z Rosalind Martin 302@/discussions Is it possible to extract the entire information about a Peal from Pealbase? Particularly who rang each bell? https://www.ringingforums.org/discussion/82/dumbbells Mon, 07 Mar 2022 08:14:50 Z Barbara Le Gallez 82@/discussions If you have recent experience of buying a dumbbell, please could you share it? This is to go in our tower for the purpose of teaching learners quickly and safely. It will interface with our Bagley / Abel simulator. We don't have much idea of who makes dumbbells and what the pros and cons of the...