@JackO posted:We see a much more robust connection between the locomotives and the remotes/universal remote than with our phones/app. LC Polar Express and LC+ Switcher. All I mean is the remotes never lose connection and the phones will lose connection if you walk to the other side of the house. It's never really been an issue for us.
While we hear such stories here from time to time how great Bluetooth locomotives work for specific people, that's really not the point. If the performance is so poor for so many, it's a product fail IMO. Weather reporting is the only job where you can be wrong half the time and still be a success. 
My Universal Remote has less range than my cellphone as far as controlling any of the BT equipped locomotives I have. All of mine are either Legacy or LC+ 2.0 models. I have four Legacy locomotives with BT and two LC+ 2.0 locomotives. None of them are reliable if I'm standing at one end of my layout and the locomotive more than 12-15 feet away from me, barely half the way down the layout. Forget it if I try to drive one into the yard! Some of them will drop out in even less distance.
