I prefer running my mth engines with the remote vrs. The app for the tactile feel. I got a wiu and used the app when it first came out. Had to get the latest and greatest right. Figured if I did not like using it at least guest or other operators could run engines with there phones when they came over.
Now today I got to thinking about blunami for some reason and there app. George said you could use the app for setting up a loco then running it with your dcc remote. So a light bulb went off in my head that said hey how about trying this with my dcs app.
Mind you I hardly ever use it. In fact this weeked I tryed it on a couple of locos and it worked fine. Although I still went back to the handheld remote. Fast forward to tonight. I tryed one engine using the app. Setting all the settings to how I wanted them. Volumes,smoke,max speed and such. Then shut off the engine grabed my handheld remote powered up the engine and wala the settings on my remote were the same as I had just set them. Then I ran the engine a bit and shut it down.
This is now my new way of adjusting the engine settings for all my mth engines from now on. It is a lot quicker than scrolling through the remote doing all the adjustments. The only thing I wish the app could do is re organize the softkeys. I like to set the first four on my remote to specific ones. The first two being extended start up and shut down. This is just my preference for operations.
For those who hate or do not wish to use the app to run your trains this may at least get you thinking twice about using the app. I do not know why I had not though about doing this a long time ago. Seems when I come back to playing with the app I learn somthing new go figure.
Just thought I would share this here. It may help some who were like me and did not know this was even possible.
. Sounds like the MTH app has some of that, and LionChief certainly does too, especially for smaller layouts.
