Loose-Caboose posted:pennsy484 posted:Loose-Caboose posted:pennsy484 posted:One of the benefits of the Bluetooth control is that the interface on the phone apps should be much easier to make improvements on as time goes by.
Addressing the issue of needing to look at the screen for basic control, a possibility is something like the Amazon fire TV (or fire stick) app, which has a large pad in the middle. I could foresee something like this where you swipe up for a 1 smph increase, and down for a 1 smph decrease, double tap to change direction, or whatever.
Bluetooth is not the app that actually runs the trains! Bluetooth is a transport protocol ONLY! Blue Train 4, etc. are the apps that actually send the commands to the trains. They can use any number of transport protocols i.e. Bluetooth, Wifi in all of it aberrations, wired or wireless and even the old venerable RS-232, 242, etc.
Yeah, no kidding. What's your point?
My point is that it is the various apps one runs on the phone, tablet, etc. that controls the trains. What transport protocol you use to get the information to the Locomotive or whatever, boxcar, trackside animation device is superfluous to this conversation. Use of the term Bluetooth to describe the Apps that run on the phones, tablets, etc. is misleading.
Sorry if you got confused. Didn't think I needed to distinguish from all the trains with rs232 interfaces.
