Leave a Review Lionel Cab3
Latest version is much better! Refinements still needed
Works good in general but there are a number of issues.
1) Does not work well to control the TMCC crane. (This is now fixed!)
2) Some of the icons are unclear and I see no definitive guide to what they are supposed to do, even with the manual online from Lionel website. (Getting better now)
4) The train brake does not work correctly. It pulses the engine to a stop, not smoothly. Also, the speed-up feature accelerates far to quickly to be useful. It doesn’t seem to match the momentum setting of the engine. (Still not great, but a little better)
5) The interface design, while functional, has the look and feel of a cheep Chinese product controller app. It does not reflect the sophistication and realism of the lionel catalog products.
6) Swiping up to reveal other menus sometimes also activates unwanted functions of the active engine. (Fixed!)
7) An iPad version of the app would be very helpful and allow the display of additional controls, displays, or screens for which there is no room on a phone app. 8) Need to add the RECORD feature from the Legacy system. So the train can drive itself. This would be a great addition to the functions. 9) Need to allow setting of the Restricted, Slow, Medium, Limited, Normal, Highball speeds! All the pre-programmed speeds are way too fast for how I run my trains. This would be a really easy thing to do. Just hold one of the speed keys and a menu should pop up allowing you to pick its speed setting.Show lessHenryTheEngineer
There are bugs
This app has the potential to get great, however there are bugs and glitches with the app. Unfortunately with Lionel being a small company they are painstakingly slow at getting updates out.willford 217
Updating the firmware of base3
I found that there is an update to the base3 and tried to update it through the app and consistently get a jit error from azure storage. I can d/l the latest release to my laptop but it requires the B3SU which isn’t available yet. This update is required to use the B3SU so you have to use the app to update the base3.Show lessAtomicsalsa
BUGS BUGS AND MORE BUGS
I see great potential for this APP but I am surprised that this version was released by Lionel First impressions are often long lasting .
Just too many bugs and it’s only been a couple of weeksA1AA1AAA
Works, but has bugs
Works good in general but there are a number of issues.
1) Does not work well to control the TMCC crane. When first connected you can rotate the crane, but when you use any of the hooks or boom controls the crane will rotate at the same time and won’t work independently any more.
2) Some of the icons are unclear and I see no definitive guide to what they are supposed to do, even with the manual online from Lionel website.
3) After running the crane car, and switching to another engine, it will not start the engine or allow it to run until the Base3 app is closed and re-initialized.
4) The train brake does not work correctly. It pulses the engine to a stop, not smoothly. Also, the speed-up feature accelerates far to quickly to be useful. It doesn’t seem to match the momentum setting of the engine.
5) The interface design, while functional, has the look and feel of a cheep Chinese product controller app. It does not reflect the sophistication and realism of the lionel catalog products.
6) Swiping up to reveal other menus sometimes also activates unwanted functions of the active engine.
7) An iPad version of the app would be very helpful and allow the display of additional controls, displays, or screens for which there is no room on a phone app.Show lessConnecting to home Wi-Fi
I have a router with Wps button and I cannot connect base 3 to my home network I’m following the instructionsCool beans 2222
Got Bugs!
When they get it right, I think it will be great. Until then……….ill use my Cab1L. It seams that things disappear, then magically reappear. It’s going to take one big can of Raid for this app. What I don’t understand is they had 3+years to develop the app.ptdsa
Update on the Base3
(Note: this is an updated review from the previous one that I had made) After a few weeks of tinkering with the app. I managed to figure most of the features that are on the app. However I managed to find most of the Base3’s functions through a source outside of the initial Base3 instruction manual on Lionel’s app. It was very tedious to try to figure it out on my own. Most of the features on the app work for the most part albeit with a few bugs here and there. If there was one thing I would improve with the Base3, it would be the instructions on how to set it up and how to use the functions it has. Along with fixing a few bugs that are present in the app I think that the Base3 would be better if it had those two things resolved with it.Show lessdhbug
Things to fix
On the Lionel website it states simple taps or swipes will bring up different menus or options. Swiping down to get to wifi settings on both my iphone and ipad is beyond cumbersome. I probably swiped 50 times last night before the app recognized the swipe and brought me to the page. The option to tap and take a picture of your locomotive is the same way. Glad to product is out but looking forward to the improvementsShow less_Kev_T_
Buyer Beware…
With the release of the new base 3. I decided to try the app out for myself. To say the very least, it’s not great…AT ALL. For starters, most of the features, like lashing up multiple engines, will not work without the use of the B3SU app on PC which at the moment of writing this isn’t available. All of the other functions on the app like the quillable whistle is very buggy and doesn’t work properly. Even putting the engine number and starting it up just crashes the app all together (Not sure if this is exclusive to IOS users or not). All in all, unless Lionel decides to release the B3SU app on PC and fix the issues that are present on mobile. I wouldn’t waste the time using this app, let alone buying a base 3.Show less