Locontrol - DCC Controller 17+

Hardly seems worth it

Poor. Don’t see what it offers over WiThrottle.

Yeah, good! Just 1 change please.

This app is good for people without controllers. It is a very nice app. I appreciate this game. Make ads to promote your app like others do. Please make categories and lists of train types.

I recommend this app for controlling your trains. If the developers of this app read this, they should reply to this comment immediately.

4 stars!

Could have potential

Whereas the app does what it’s says, control a locomotive, it’s currently very basic such that I can’t recommend it, primarily because of the following:-
1 Due to the fact that you can’t run more than 1 loco with the 30 day free trial, which fails the user to trial running situations such as managing control of 2 locos or more simultaneously when using the Apps touch screen functions/commands.
2 Bearing in mind 1, there is no way of establishing how consists can be created/separated, if at all possible, and how the function keys work on the selected locos, which for me is important as I bank many of my trains, or double head.
3 As a result of 1&2, the possible future user/owner is not being given assess to the Apps full potential, features that might be hidden by the free trial.
4 Function keys should be editable, as sadly in the case of sound functionality, assigned features vary dramatically function key to function key. eg, I have locos where brake application has been allocated to F2 not horns as depicted by your App. Not withstanding that, here in the U.K., F1 normally switches sound “on or off”, not bells.
5 I use Decoder Pro, so why can’t the App be configured to read my roster file and add same to its memory automatically, rather than having to add locos manually. Having said that the Function Labels could also be uploaded.
6 Means to flip the loco control slider to the right hand side of the Function Keys thus catering for all users and making the App more user friendlier.

On the plus side I like the integrated photo / video options, and the general appearance although the picture section I feel should be smaller giving way to more space for the Function key area.

Developer Response ,

Hello, thank you for such honest feedback! We appreciate it. We truly believe that without this kind of feedback we can’t evolve our app.

Well, in fact you CAN control more then one locomotive in the 30 days trial. You in fact have FULL access to all the app’s features on the 30 days trial, and we are very curious about why you think the opposite. You can, if you want, give us a more detailed feedback using the feedback tool inside the app, on the “ i “ icon at the connection screen.

About the PRO features (we call them PRO features because only a small portion of the users use them, and usually they are the most experienced among all), you are right, we are in the beginning journey of our product and we don’t have them yet. But you can expect them on a future release.

Thank you again.