Folks,
Firstly, I cannot praise the people behind Withrottle/Engine Driver enough - I haven't seen a big-name brand wireless throttle that allows touch screen selection of loco by name and photo with blissful disregard of address, selection of route and turnout by name with blissful disregard of address and consistency in operation so I no longer care what brand system I have to drive, I have the comfort of familiarity. This almost puts and end to the "which brand DCC should I buy" debate - it doesn't make much difference, just plug in JMRI and Withrottle and you no longer care.
Secondly, how quickly we move from being spoiled to being greedy. A small, fast clock on the throttle screen would be useful. I know that has been discussed before and that I can have it in a web page that uses almost half the screen and that I can have it on a screen of its own I can access by turning my phone to landscape. A friend suggested that the only other thing he needed was to have is running schedule on his phone so then he'd have all he needed in his hand and he'd be in heaven.
Now my problem. I was running with JMRI 3.4 on someone's quite old laptop running Win XP with WiThrottle and two operators. While running using DecoderPro, all seemed pretty fine. When we switched to PanelPro (to get the fast clock) we were repeated getting "lost connection" messages. The WiFi signal was strong and did not appear to be having any difficulty. Is this a symptom of using a laptop that ought to be in retirement or is there another possibility that I should investigate?
Kind regards, David.
