lionel camera caboose question/help.

Seemed to find a fix here. just taped the gear icon and deleted the camera caboose from the menue. then powered everthing down and waited about 5 min. I then re did my steps as mentioned and wala I now have my caboose online and working on my tablet just fine. I can now power down the layout and disconnect from the camera wifi come back a few minutes later reconnect to the caboose wifi and log into the lionel app and it shows me camera online everytime. guess I was not giving the camera enough time to boot up. not sure,but I am glad its working. also took out the little window for a clearer picture. for the price this was a good deal. will probably get another one. 

I found that removing the plastic window improved the image greatly.  There is a video about it on YT.  What's your experience?

jim, I took the window out first thing before trying it out. it really looks much better. I also watched seans and others youtube videos witch made me do the mod. 

Wait till you put it on the front of a train, just like riding in the locomotive!

Alan will have to try that next. thanks this really is a neat accesory for the price. lionel could have made a better instruction manual though. just playing with the wifi app and tablet settings kinda like trial and error got me straight about how it works. its not too bad for the sometimes tech challenged people like me.

maybe someday dave can do a official lionel video on how to set these up and truoble shoot them if their is a hicup in connecting them to the app. most online videos just gloss over the tablet or phone set up or are using apple products witch as we know is a different animal than andriod. the same applies to apple people as well. I also learned some new device setting on my tablet that I did not know I had. so all in all it was a small learning curve,but well worth it. now to go to trainworlds website and get another one before they sell out of the one I want. 

I removed the camera from the caboose with power supply and mounted in a Dummy F3 A unit where the head light is. B unit is powered with sound.

@Lionel2341 posted:

I removed the camera from the caboose with power supply and mounted in a Dummy F3 A unit where the head light is. B unit is powered with sound.

That's a pretty neat idea. With F units so equipped, the camera could go into the MARS light opening and keep the headlight.