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We are using DCS and Legacy – both Cab 1L and Cab 2s, the DCS remote, the DCS app to run engines and the Lionel LCS app to operate switches and other modules of the LCS system. Our system is hooked up as shown in the attached diagram. We have both Legacy and DCS engines running at the same time. Occasionally one of our DCS engines will take off at full throttle or we derail an engine and need to shut the system down quickly.

The E-Stop button on the Lionel pieces do not work since power is routed through the TIU. The E-Stop works on our DCS remote, but not on the app. We went in and turned off the Hide E-Stop in App settings. However, when we push the button on the app, nothing happens.

What are we doing wrong? Thanks in advance for any help.

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There's a bug that I found some time ago that has been reported to MTH. On my layout, with 3 TIUs in Super TIU mode, it goes like this:

There’s a defect that can inhibit E-Stop activation that is present in both iOS and Android versions, however, it varies in severity between the two versions.

Using either the iOS or Android versions of the app, E-Stop will not work at all on the Engine Control Screen unless there is an active engine in the Engine Control Screen. If there is no engine listed or if the shown engine is Inactive, E-Stop doesn’t do anything.

If there is an active engine listed on the Android version’s Engine Control Screen and E-Stop is pressed, all TIUs are shut down properly.

If there is an active engine listed on the iOS version’s Engine Control Screen and E-Stop is pressed, only the TIU of the active engine is shut down. Following the E-Stop activation, if a different engine on a different TIU is made active, E-Stop may then be used to shut down that TIU. This process may be used to shut down all of a layout’s TIUs, albeit one at a time.

As of release 3.1.0, E-Stop on the Track Screen mimics the way E-Stop works on the Engine Control Screen.

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