I just experienced something I haven't experienced since becoming a DCS user. Not just WIFI, but DCS. I've had some issues with hitting the correct spot near that arrow to inactive an engine, but not this.
I was running three trains. I have seven. I wanted to ALL ENGINE the three I was running. I deactivated the four parked engines with ease. I ran the three active ones up to 40 then decided to park those three and run three others. All was going great until I started re-activating the four engines I had deactivated or to use proper terms, made inactive. I activated one engine without incident. Then came the next three. I activated my UP ES44AC and instead of the blink of an eye activation I usually get, I got the famous spinning circle effect on a grayed out screen that usually means, reading, reading, reading, and it showed no sign of finding. So I jumped back to the Engine Control Screen and then back to the Engine List screen. To my surprise, there was good o'l Odyssey82 on the active list. Hmmm. So I tried to activate the other UP engine and......same result, reading, reading, reading, etc, etc, etc. Back to ECS, back to ELS, and there was Titan69 activated. I thought all was well until I tried to start Odyssey 82. Nothing. Start, Shutdown, Start, Shutdown, nothing. I tried to start Titan 69, jackpot, engine started right up. The last of the three problem children was Mercury 88, my RJ Corman engine. Same result trying to activate it and it too would not start.
I moved both engines to another track. I turned off the WIFI, turned off the layout, sat for a second, then turned on the layout, turned on the WIFI, waited, and when the WIFI was blue light ready, I got back into the APP and tapped the read arrow. I went to the list screen and there was Odyssey and Mercury still sitting on the inactive list. I tapped Edit, and no arrows. I couldn't do anything with them but delete them. Earlier, forgot to mention this, before I turned off the system and turned it back on, I tried to move Odyssey and Mercury from the inactive list using the arrows provided. I tapped, I got a quick blink from the screen but no activation.
I finally deleted both engines and added them back into the system. That's when part two of this freak show began. Instead of seeing Odyssey and Mercury listed as the two engines it found sitting on the tracks, it also listed three more engines it found that were supposedly not in the system. I wasn't to my knowledge having any trouble with those. I ignored the ones I knew worked, and selected Odyssey from the list. Not only did it add Odyssey back to the active list, it added it back under a new ID number, (8). It also kept the broken one that as of now I still don't know what broke it. I just ran the thing first of the week no problems. Mercury did the same thing, was re-added to the list under a new ID. By the time I was finished, only one of my seven engines remained in the list under the original ID number it got when I added it in 2017. For what it's worth, the LSD trip I had to go on swapping ID's and re-adding engines did work in the end. All of my engines are now starting and shutting down without issue, and thanks to the change ID feature under settings, all of my ID numbers are back to normal.
One question. What the bell happened? I've been running these engines for two years using the same track, same layout, and other than a hiccup involving the clikety clack feature, I've had the occasional auto start when I turn on the power, but only once that it didn't involve a brand new add to the list. Have any of you experienced this sudden unexplained head injury event with your DCS engines?
Any explanation is greatly appreciated. All engines are MTH, WIFI is the premium app, nothing new added to the layout except a bucket load of corona boredom inspired billboards I fashioned out of balsa wood and photo paper.