PJB posted:
A few thoughts:
My twin middle school age sons and I prefer the remotes and own three. Like yankspride4 says: the remote puts a mental separation in between everything else and train time.
My Nieces & nephews didn't want anything to do with the trains until they found out that they could use their tablet to run them.
Also, my wifi isn't so great from top floor of my house to my basement. Seems like MTH is possibly introducing yet another possible point of frustration in running DCS/MTH trains.
Your home wifi doesn't have to strong to make the system work, in fact it can be non-existant. The WIU can generate its own WiFi signal which will be plenty strong near your layout for a device to connect to.
Finally, my personal smart phone gets call almost as frequently as my work phone. And when it does, the screen changes to phone mode. What happens when two trains are about to go through a T crossing at opposite angles and at that moment my phone rings? Crash, boom, bang! Well, maybe MTH is smarter than I thought. This "issue" could result in more sales volumes to replace totaled trains. Heehee...
Tablets and old phones without a connection to a phone carrier are cheap, easily replaced, and readily available in all sizes for any preference. I bought two 7" RCA tablets last year from Shopko for $25 a piece.
