Good but room for improvement
This app and HM6000 box is much better than the horrible plastic standard Hornby controllers. The app has good response, no lag and generally feels good. However, the sounds could be better and as its an app, they could be customised to an exact loco as a HST sounds way different than a diesel railcar, and is possible because Hornby has the sounds recorded for their DCC sound locos and chips. They also appear to be on the upcoming HM7000 DCC version so we know hornby are yet again trying to squeeze more money out of us. The sounds also jump so when you go from idle to half speed the sound suddenly changes which is a bit annoying. It is a good app and I do recommend it but there is a bit of room for improvement. Also it would be great if you could Programm it like wait 5 sec then speed up by 20% or something like that and would be relatively easy to do as it would be entirely software based. this would make the app much more intuitive. I hope they improve this in the future but with the last update being nearly a year ago and their new focus on HM7000 I doubt it.
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Trackbuilder broken
Have been loving this app, but since the latest update, when I try to edit my track, the app (both on my iPad & iPhone) throws a wobbler and fills the screen with spurious pieces of track all over the screen. Please sort.
Excellent fun but a bit unintuitive
It’s great fun to control your train-set with your phone but I found it a little unintuitive to set up. BLE worked well but, although I could ‘provision’ it, I couldn’t get Mesh to connect until I discovered that you need to go back to the settings page, open ’Device Connectivity’ and connect to the unit again. This should bring up an iOS popup as shown in the QuickStart guide. Not sure I understand what the advantage is over BLE though.
It would also be useful if it could run in the background on a phone. As it stands the moment you do something else, the trains stop.
Lastly, the app could do with some tweaking to display better on iPhone 12 and 13s with a notch.
It would also be useful if it could run in the background on a phone. As it stands the moment you do something else, the trains stop.
Lastly, the app could do with some tweaking to display better on iPhone 12 and 13s with a notch.
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Good App
This is an easy app to use and a great step in analogue control.Would like more sounds like station background noise and whistles. Good start by Hornby, but would like to see manufacturing return to UK and not made in China.
Unable to double head
This controller is ok. An upgrade on the sound functions would be good as the running sounds jump. Ie Iddle, then suddenly slow speed then high speed.
Also I recently purchased both Hornby GBRf Class 20’s which in real life run together. Every time I’ve tried to double head a train with them, the track short circuits. Come on Hornby sort this out please 🤷♂️
Also I recently purchased both Hornby GBRf Class 20’s which in real life run together. Every time I’ve tried to double head a train with them, the track short circuits. Come on Hornby sort this out please 🤷♂️
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