Can you provide the model numbers for your engines?

Without them we're quite blind and can't help much.

Mike

@yellowtruck75 posted:

I am trying to run my new E8s and my North Pole Central set.  Half the time my Lion Chief app doesn’t recognize the engines and when it does it only finds the front engine (#24).  Sometimes it runs fine other times the lead engine just spins the wheels.

• Lionel 2333320

https://www.lionelsupport.com/...ntral-LEGACY-E8-AA_2

manual pdf link https://www.lionelsupport.com/...20AA%20Units_web.pdf

Page 20 of the manual

What you are describing is perfectly normal.

Again, the app will ONLY ever show and list the lead unit (#24) this is because the second A is NOT programmed to show up as an engine and instead you hope and pray it receives the commands that are being received by the lead engine. I didn't design this protocol- so don't shoot me, but yes, that's more or less how it works. Your remote or app connects to the lead engine, while the second A listens only, and follows the commands it sees being sent to the lead A.

You are experiencing the limitations of the Bluetooth system as implemented and designed by Lionel.

Sounds like best bet is to run in conventional until the Base 3 is released some day.

I run the new AA E8 pair in a TMCC environment with a cab 1 controller. I assigned the same engine number to both units. They perform flawlessly. They start up in different directions so they operate as a pair in tail to tail configuration. Pulling together they handle just about anything you can put behind them...

Running in conventional I still occasionally have the engines stop and one just spins.  I have Blue Tooth off in each engine and both are set to run.  So I have the settings wrong?