@cdswindell posted:I must be missing something here, as I'm not sure what this accomplishes. We could run the Cab 3 app on the iPhone already, right? Are you looking to use the joystick on the controller to control engine speed?
Thanks,
-- Dave
The idea is to provide a tactile hand held remote (rather than a touch screen phone) to control engine speed, quilling whistle, bell, boost/brake, start up sequences, etc. - I'd say everything other than programming engines which would be simpler through the app itself. The phone would show the Cab3 App with engine data, throttle position, etc.
I understand this is out of scope from what you set out to do, I was just offering a hardware option that might be able to work before having to cobble something together.
There is another train control app called Bluerail (not related to TMCC/Legacy at all). The Bluerail app allows you to control the app directly using a MFI controller. The Cab3 app to my knowledge doesn't allow MFI/bluetooth control of the app - which is why I was thinking perhaps you could use the bluetooth controller input to the raspberry pi to activate the code you have written for TMCC/Legacy.
Here's a video demonstrating it for Bluerail.
There is https://youtu.be/plinKYtuwrM
