Dave45681 posted:If you have wireless internet at home, you can try a non-phone device like a tablet or iPod Touch. Those suffer from the same issue of being a screen, but don't require you to be shelling out for a smart phone bill each month after the purchase of the hardware (again, assuming you have high speed internet with wi-fi at home - I'm not sure if there may be some way to get the apps on these devices via hard wire if you don't use a wi-fi router - if there is, I don't know how). I think I bought my latest iPod touch (used for things other than controlling my trains) in May of this year for around $190 at a local big box store.
-Dave
For the record, if you can have someone help you get the App on your tablet you don't need wireless internet in your home. My understanding is that the MTH WiFi device has the ability to send out its own WiFi signal independently just for your trains. Others with more experience can chime in where that switch is located or if there is an easier way to download the App to your tablet.
MTH set this up so that it doesn't matter what devices you currently use in your life, just grab a second hand tablet around the same cost of the remote if your using WiFi and your good to go.
