Legacy LCS App. My thoughts. Urs?

I have a failry large layout with 2 duckunders that make control of the laoyout form a fixed position unreasonable. I have the layout setup on the JMRIplatform with WiThrottle ap on my iPad ust to control turnouts and I love it. I do have throttles on the ipad to control locomotives but it only gives me TMCC control so I do not have the ability to run locomitve consists on with the ipad. It would be nice to have total layout and train control directly form the ipad. My biggest bone about the lionel app is that it is not really strcutered for large layout control. I cannot fit a good represetnation of my laout on the screen given. It is plenty long enough but not tall enough.

Here's a link to a short video introduction of the Layout Control System I posted this afternoon. Hope it answers some questions and raises a few more! ;-)

 

Cheers,

Rudy

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...amp;feature=youtu.be

Thanks Rudy!  Very interesting.

 

can one buy the LCS wireless module now?

 

hope the other videos will follow soon!  

 

Rudy you just made my night! Thanks for the youtube channel. You guys are amazing out there in cali. Can't wait to get an ipad and the lcs components. Keep the video updates comming as fast as you can. There are very professional and first rate! The lcs app is way more than I had imagined it would be. Too all of you guys out there working hard to develop and bring these new toys to us. Thanks again! Words can not express what it is to be a lionel fan. As a kid of the 70's all I can say is WOW!

Wow, things I didnt know about, awesome

I have downloaded the app onto my iPad and am very impressed. Very easy to use. Can't wait for the wifi module. 

 

I believe the wifi module is scheduled for release in October. 

Since this App is intended for Tablets and not phones you can throw out all the Android is more popular than iOS debates (which are only true in Asia and NON-smartphone categories). iPad represents something in the neighborhood of 85% of web traffic from tablets in the US. All iPads use the same screen dimensions and therefore are far easier to develop for. Why trust my opinion? I design an develop for iOS and Android and carefully monitor their usage on a very popular vacation website, for a certain theme park with a train around it.

 

Can't wait for the whole system to be released and I hope Rudy will consider making a true track editor within the App, that seems to be an overlooked feature that would help promote fast track!

 

iPads may be in the lead, but Android has been closing that gap over the past year or two.  So I never would never make the assumption that anything today will remain so in the following couple of years, and that thinking is how app development should be treated as well, not just on "here and now".  Kind of like when USB had already  become standardized as an embedded component on PC motherboards, MTH came out with their TIU with a serial port only, in spite of being advised during their development stage that USB was already commonplace and making inroads into becoming the more preferred method of interconnecting peripheral devices on consumer devices (doesn't really matter regarding the arguments over serial vs. USB being more robust).  Now, MTH ends up with a revision L TIU that includes a USB port in addition to a serial port, as it should have been in the first place. 

 

I think the real matter is more along the later in your comments above, about how it's "easier" to develop the app for the iOS devices over Androids being the real reason.  Maybe even a touch of laziness being the reason to just stick with developing & releasing only iOS apps.  But hey, a DCS app for both PC, iOS & Android was developed & released simultaneously, so there you have it. 

And a 3rd party developed and will release a Legacy App working with Lionel. Everyone happy yet?

If they make an Android version of the app, then yes.

Then visit Blue Train. They are the developers of the Android App. On the LUG summary thread is the name of the member who is developing it with Lionel's blessing. Bob Kriviacic. 

When you need to do visual layout, having a standard screen size you can count on makes life infinitely easier. I have yet to see this Android market closing the gap. Yes they sell lots of free phones thru Verizon and use those numbers to try and claim they are stealing Apple's market share, but when you look at the real data it's just not happening. Those free phones get tossed after 6 months and they either buy another (leading to the false market share numbers) or an iPhone (which people generally keep for 2 years). While I never count on anything staying the same forever, I think iPad is a safe bet based on what happened with the iPod. Just like USB was a safe bet, and Floppy disks were not.

 

I'd rather see a more robust iPad app with a true track editor in scale than multiple platforms.