@Joe Fermani posted:Connect the Lionel app to a loc using blue tooth. While controlling the train, have someone call your phone. See how it interrupts the app. The phone app needs the user to answer or decline the phone call. That can cause a problem if you were in the middle of sending a command. I do not intend to buy a dedicated smart phone just to run trains, might as well buy a dedicated remote.
Fone Foamers around here will emphasize that a spare old smartphone without telephone service is very inexpensive compared to a handheld remote of late, and that reusing a phone instead of throwing it in the trash is very trendy. This doesn't appeal to you?
There are many good things to use a smartphone for, even an old one. Controlling anything that moves is not one of them however.
Why does a real-world remote controller for 1:1 scale railroading look like this:
and not this?:
Mike
