Out of curiosity, who uses Withrottle as a replacement for the mfg. handheld unit? I am honestly torn. Its nice to have tactile buttons and knobs, but there are features such as the control panel control that is pretty hard to beat. One major downside I found so far is when building a consist with a loco running, it will stop. I did adjust the e-stop feature but it only allows 60 seconds... My main goal is to create a model rail railroad with operations and LOTS of industrial switching. Panels will be available for those who choose to use a hand held throttle. Darn First world Dilemmas.
We have the wifi set up at shows if operators wish to use the feature, but most of us have factory throttles. I only have a couple of the utility throttles at home and may ask guests to use their Withrottles until I can supply more when needed. I am curious why you would attempt to build a consist while locos are running?
Simply put, I had the club layout to myself and I wanted to see what the program could do. I upgraded to pro and I was playing with all the new goodies, including 4 separate throttles on my ipad version. I
A lot of us use it, or the Android version, on the Silicon Valley FreeMoN layout at shows, too. I do not use it at home, as I have sufficient throttles on the layout, and do not always turn on JMRI.
I use it quite often. I don't have any other throttles besides my Zephyr Xtra. I've used the factory throttles on other layouts and they are fine, but not in my budget at this time.
I use withrottle more than my clunky hand held. I love it and swear its a faster response time. At big shows it's a plus not having to worry about interference too
Baldy, that is true. I have noticed less latency from the club's simplex digitrax to withrottle. Although it is a bit one sided considering your using a router designed for high data transfer rate. All be it, it is nice to have a throttle that is "duplex" and the pro version only costing 10 for iusers. I would like to let linux users that I have gotten the system to run fine on xubuntu. It did require more work then it did when I was using windows. Well worth the effort IMHO.
