George S posted:JohnGaltLine posted:George S posted:I also highly doubt they built 'bridge' technology (Bluetooth to 2.4Ghz) into the Universal Remote at that price.
It seems someone discovered just how powerful the processor on a $2 BLE module can be.
For what it's worth, I'd rather see effort put into making the universal remote truly universal, rather than into allowing control of engines from my phone.
JGL
I'll trust you on the bridge. Maybe it is that easy...
But isn't the BLE module just a communications chip, which sends and receives signals? The command control processing is really happening on the board in the engine that is receiving commands.
I understand on the remote, they did commit to making the older engines work with it eventually. At least you have more hope of getting those to work with the remote than I do of getting the remote or app to control my 259e.
Lionel has more than one bridge they ought to be working on. Why don't they create a small device to bridge Lionchief to Legacy? That is something useful. Each year it seems they release something new that is incompatible with the new thing from the previous year. The past few years we've been left with this trail of things that don't play with other things, in the name of the unnecessary necessity to have the latest and greatest way to achieve the same basic task: run trains in circles. Even the "universal" remote doesn't function yet. For the time being, I'll stick with my 1950 ZW. It's backward compatible to the year 1900, and can also run a new Legacy or Lionchief plus loco made today.
