I'm a new user of LocoFi, and so far I'm very impressed! My first conversion is a diesel locomotive and the preset sounds is really awesome, to say the least. My next locomotive will be a Swedish X2000 electric train. And my question or "wish list" is that the pitch of the "running" sound had a way to be edited. On diesels the pitch will increase with speed, but for electric locomotives or trains there is mostly a blower sound that should not change pitch with speed. It's just a constand pitch even if speed changes. For european modelers there are no "bell" so this sound could be any other sound suitable for your train. Maybe there is room for more sounds for the sound controller to handle? And maybe customizable icons or editable text in the APP to give them names or meaning for the user.
I love the product! And it works just 100% perfect for deadtracking with onboard LiPo Battery.
WiFi and on board power is my future for model trains. All my DCC stuff is going to collect dust, because I will never ever return to that outdated technology again!
Here goes my first installation : https://www.wifimodelrailroad.com/forum/installation/mehano-sncf-cc70000-with-dynamic-smoke
Thank you so much for the kind answers!
I have never heard of any other company with this good and nice user communication, thank you so much for this. I think many users will be very, very happy!
Yes I will upload a video on my first locomotive, and talk a little about how I managed a adaptive smoke unit to work with LocoFi.
At the moment I'm working with the real sound files for this locomotive.
When the sound is ok, I do a simple video about it.
It's a French SNCF cc70000, with dual 16cylinder diesels. Very special odd engine design, only two of them was ever made.
Why this locomotive? I have no connection to French trains at all, but I do like trains from all of the world. This locomotive was large enough to fit the smoke unit and onboard LiPo battery. Besides I had it laying arround for no real use, it's simple and looks like a toy. New paint and a bit of detailing will make it shine later on. That's what makes the hobby so fun! Everything can be tweeked to taste, on the inside (WiFi+sound+control=LocoFi) and on the outside.
To all users out there, please share and show your trains with LocoFi!
Thank you for the kind words! That's really incredible to hear.
>My first conversion is a diesel locomotive...
If possible, please share any pictures/videos of the diesel conversion.
>And my question or "wish list" is that the pitch of the "running" sound had a way to be edited.
That is great question. We are in fact working on making the sounds themselves more "programmable" apart from being "editable".
>...for electric locomotives or trains there is mostly a blower sound that should not change pitch with speed.
We are also working on releasing sound firmware updates that will let you simply define the locomotive type and the sounds will change accordingly. In this case, defining the sound scheme as "electric" type will automatically generate the sounds accordingly.
However, as far as we know yours seems to be the first "electric train" to run on LocoFiā¢. We are still learning about "electric" locomotives ourselves and would love your inputs. We will start a new thread inviting inputs regarding operation of the electric locomotives and the sounds coming out of them to further refine our algorithms.
>For european modelers there are no "bell" so this sound could be any other sound suitable for your train.
Yes, certainly! The "bell" is currently a small sound clip that is repeated over and over until turned off. We plan to be able to make it customizable so as "not to repeat" and play only once as well as customize the interval at which it repeats (for the repeatable case).
For now, simply press it once to play something once e.g. an announcement and turn it off.
>Maybe there is room for more sounds for the sound controller to handle? And maybe customizable icons or editable text in the APP to give them names or meaning for the user.
Very good questions again. Yes, these and others have been considered as possible enhancements. Thank you for the feedback.
Again, we are delighted to see people realize the potential of what can be achieved with modern technologies that are not "tied" to the rails. It not only frees us to innovate beyond what is currently possible with older technologies but provide a more generic, customizable way to achieve desired prototypical behavior based on open source standards in a cost effective and simplistic way.