Ipad

being discussed on the tmcc/legacy forum

Where did that ipad cradle come from? Got to have one!

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

Nick12 dmc, I second that respones!!! Lionel please make this!!!

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 ? 

In the words of my daughter I can only say "OMG"!

  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.

Do you mean I wasn't the only one to do that to someone

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 ) 

Was the ipad just sitting there or did they have it on and show the software running? If so what was the screen displaying?

Also if lionel just made the cradle as shown in the photo and put the lionel letters on it not all lit up.painted it like the one shown to match the remote bases in the art deco style, and the price could be kept under say $25 or close they might be a good seller for people looking to add this to the legacy system. I know I would buy one! Maybe if a power docking addapter was added so as to keep the ipads battery's up while in use maybe they could charge say $35. Just a thought.

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

Thanks andy, the switches are tmcc equiped. But most accesorys are not. Would they need to have tmcc recivers in them to be able to be controled by the ipad? Maybe a picture on the screen of the switch box that comes with the accsesory. And you push the buttons on the box on the screen. If this makes sence. Tap on the picture of the accsesory and get the appropriate control box on the screen. Then touch the buttons on the screen to activate the accsesory. I think having sections on the screen of the switches and accsesorys. Is a great idea! Then scrolling back and forth on the ipad is easy. That way you break your control diagrams into manageable sections. (Ie: town One, town two, yard, industrial section ect.). Wow! This still is way cool and really blows my mind. Cant wait to someday have this! Warp factor one mr. Sulu. Take us to grand central station!!

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.

 

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

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.

 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....