Lionel iCab

I love this app.

This is the first app I paid more than $2.99 for and I'm very happy with it. It has a lot of features in a small package. I use it more than I use the Legacy remote. I often use it with the LCS app on 2 different apple products. It was a good design idea to have different features on the 2 apps.

This app is really cool. It gives all the control you get out of a normal cab 2 remote. Its great for people who want more remotes. My only problem is it price. I'm a teenager and 50 dollars is a lot. If I didn't love trains my money would have probably gone to video games. Lionel should try hard if they want to get younger people into the hobby.

For an app this expensive, I frankly expected perfection. That being said, the LCS WiFi interface is rather new and I'm sure improvements are coming. My main complaint is the clunky interface. The companion iPad app, free by the way, is limited in its operation. It has one huge pro over this app, Yard Control Mode. A simple wave of the finger controls forward and backward fine controls. This app is missing that. The clunk continues with simple operations one must perform from the CAB2 remote: pressing and holding AUX1 to enable legacy sound controls. Can't be done here. The buttons are enormously huge and look crazy sized on an iPhone 6 plus. That is very clunky. And my final complaint, though I'm not sure if this is the app or the LCS WiFi module. You must be on the same subnet as the LCS to access the device. You can't hard code an IP address or a name to connect. It must be "discovered." If you've separated your network for security, say if your internal network is for processing credit cards in your store, you can't hard code an address to run the icab software. Must change networks. Very, very clunky. Speaking of security, how about maybe a simple password so everyone who walks in to my layout can't start controlling it randomly? My one major pro is being able to pick an engine from the manifest of all equipment rather than typing a road number.

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Lionel needs to rethink this very expensive app. It's not functional at all on my 5s with current iOS. If I can get a keyboard at all (usually a blank screen), the keypad does nothing and nothing can be addressed. Also, there doesn't seem to be any documentation as the link on the App Store for documentation leads to an error screen. Really sorry I paid $50, how do I get a refund?