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It appears that you can have two mobile devices connected at the same time to Explorer.  Each device acts independent of the other so you need to set the max speed for each train on each device.  If you want to run one train exclusively on one device and the second train on the second device there appears to be no problems.  That way there is no "remote fight" with the grandkids.  If you want to control both trains from both devices things are somewhat awkward since one device doesn't seem to know what the other device is doing.  For example, if you activate the bell on train 1 using device 1 and then want to turn the bell off on that train using device 2, you have to toggle the bell on and then off using device 2.  Forward/reverse toggling has the same issue.  Horn isn't a problem.  So each device will run each of the trains independent of the settings on the other device.  So, if one person is controlling two trains it is easier to just use one device.  If you want 2 people to each run a  train using 2 devices and 1 Explorer, that appears to work fine especially if the two people aren't going to try to operate the other person's train.  

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BOB WALKER posted:

One of the capabilities of the bluetooth control systems that I cannot calibrate for its importance is that you can run several trains at the same time from a single smart device and you can run two trains at the same time individually controlled by two smart devices.

Not sure that this would work Bob. Bluetooth is a Master & Slave connection method.  One Master (Remote) can control multple Slave (Trains). However a Slave cannot be connected to multiple Masters at the same time.

This is why a Bluetooth speaker can only connect to one media player device at a time.

BOB WALKER posted:

One of the capabilities of the bluetooth control systems that I cannot calibrate for its importance is that you can run several trains at the same time from a single smart device and you can run two trains at the same time individually controlled by two smart devices.

You can also control 1 train with 2 controllers - so you can break up duty on a single train - although this is sort of imperfect - since the controllers don't sync together - particularly the speed control display - wish that would reflect the most recent setting and max speed - regardless of which controller issued the command.

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