Can't wait for the app for ipad. i think that is great idea. anty thoughts.
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Ok, that is just a whole new level of cool!
That just has to be made.
Nick
wonder if it uses the new lightning plug in and charges battery at same time??
just asking.
$oo
I wonder if it will be password protected ?
I could see a club running it at a show and
any by-passer with the app would start running
the trains... Could make for an interesting session.
Do we get to yell at Apple now if the app is ready
but the hardware is still in china ?
I wonder if it will be password protected ?
I could see a club running it at a show and
any by-passer with the app would start running
the trains... Could make for an interesting session.
Do we get to yell at Apple now if the app is ready
but the hardware is still in china ?
mmm goo point. I wonder if anyone has.
I bet more people walk around with I phones and I pads than do
Legacy remotes.
You would still have to have downloaded the app and configured it to "talk" to the base or adaptor.
I'm curious about whatever happened to the iPhone app that was used at the Legacy group meeting at York either last year or the year before? I don't think that was using a wifi to serial adaptor? At least nothing in the reports covering the even mentioned this. I though the phone was talking to the Legacy base over the wifi?
It was on a WiFi to serial adapter as well.
I wonder if it will be password protected ?
I could see a club running it at a show and
any by-passer with the app would start running
the trains... Could make for an interesting session.
Do we get to yell at Apple now if the app is ready
but the hardware is still in china ?
that is exactly what happened when I was running trains with my phone at the MTH booth. someone, I won't mention names, was controling the same train as me. took a few minutes to figure it out. it was funny at the time, but in a club running environment it could be costly.
Do you mean I wasn't the only one to do that to someone
don't rush into it, Apple will make it non-compatible with their next version
So far the cradle is one of a kind, but pretty cool. However you don't need it to run the App, the cradle only holds it and does not supply power
The form factor of the iPad has been pretty stable since version 1 so yes it cold be redesigned, put no idea when
Cool for a 4 x 8 layout but I can't see how you gone fit a medium to large layout on that small screen without scrolling. We are getting older, our eyes are not getting better.
another thing, Apple launch a new iPad, the mini-iPad, so if it become more popular, they may drop the regular one. Honestly I prefer the mini, more convenient to carry.
I'm using a 24" monitor for the CTI dispatcher panel and when I'm gone expand my layout I will have 3 monitors.
If you ask me, I don't want a iPad solution, I want an interface that I can't choose the peripheral I want, this is good for MTH and Lionel, in DCC we can choose the software we like and the peripheral we wants ( remote, phone, pc, iPad or whatever, I even have an old 3com pad that can control my Digitrax stuff )
At the meet, the only functionality they displayed (when I was getting a one-on-one demo) was the ability to throw switches by touching the switch on the screen and there was some limited train control. They had a small loop with a small yard set up with a number of swiches, and the yard (but not the loop) was represented on the screen. Remember, this app is still in development.
The Lionel rep that was showing me the app told me that the idea wasn't to create a visual representation of an entire layout on the screen, but that the user would set up pages consisting of logical groupings of switches and accessories that the user could scroll through or tab through to get from group to group. For example, one group could consist of yard switches, while another group could display the switch for a siding and a remote controlled accessory on that siding. I can also see this app being used to control other things on a layout such as lighting, and combined with the IR track sensor, I can see a lot of other potential uses as well.
This may give me a more solid excuse to get myself an iPad...
Andy
It's already a slight issue among members of the Glancy club with the current TMCC/Legacy. I've had to temporarily switch engine numbers when I've run because somebody else was running an engine programed to the same number. It's always surprising when your locomotive takes off blowing it's horn when you're not touching the remote
As I sit here configurng another shrubbery row for a little scene, this whole conversation blows my little mind! You guys are too cool. Apparently, the future is here !
Wow!!
Bravo!
Frank, the guy born in the 40's and raised in the 50's...
...and still playin' with trains, after all these years.
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Lionel already makes TMCC Switch Controllers, TMCC Accessory Switch Controllers and TMCC Accessory Motor Controllers, so accessories and non-command switches would not have to have receivers installed, they would just have to be hooked up to the appropriate TMCC controller, and the app would work with the controllers.
Andy
It's already a slight issue among members of the Glancy club with the current TMCC/Legacy. I've had to temporarily switch engine numbers when I've run because somebody else was running an engine programed to the same number. It's always surprising when your locomotive takes off blowing it's horn when you're not touching the remote
That's always been an issue, that is why you never want to leave your engine ID set to 1. When TMCC first came out I bought my base and attached it to the club layout. Since everyone was running conventional no one had ever set their ID to anything but 1, being new either did I. Once I hooked up the base and tried to fire my engine up, we soon found 5 other engines with ID's set to 1
Lionel told me you could also use a SC2 to control the switches and implied you would be able to use any device that is controlled by TMCC. The iPad communicates with Legacy Base not directly to to the device.
That's always been an issue, that is why you never want to leave your engine ID set to 1. When TMCC first came out I bought my base and attached it to the club layout. Since everyone was running conventional no one had ever set their ID to anything but 1, being new either did I. Once I hooked up the base and tried to fire my engine up, we soon found 5 other engines with ID's set to 1
Here's one that is just as good.
2 clubs using track one and track two.
The TMCC systems were in reach of each other and a lot of old farts who
don't understand these controls to begin with are running conventional.
It took a while before someone figured this out. So one club switched to
track 7 and 8 and everything in Lionel Ville was at piece again....