52train Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 The wife has a tablet I have a desk top in the living room this one, my railway is in the loft can I down load the required stuf on to the tablet and take it to the loft and connect it to my elite control unit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB51 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Hi 52 train, do you have Railmaster? If so, and your tablet can detect your WiFi signal and you have a licence from Hornby for your tablet (or you are running the evaluation version) then yes you can. It is Railmaster that the tablet will "connect" to not the Elite. R- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
52train Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 thanks I dont think the tablet will pick up the wifi in the loft but thakyou any way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelrow Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Join the club. Its these thick walls, here in france. Cant get the signal, to my train room. As a last resort, i ran a very long ethernet cable from downstairs, through rooms, landing loft etc. No help for an ipad though. Some of the other tablets have usb slots, so, with a very long usb, ........... john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rog RJ Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 You can get WiFi repeaters that should help or mains links such as thesehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=bt+wifi+extender&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=24514530294&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3554655224906904189&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=t&ref=pd_sl_1qe6r2hw5o_b Sorry about the long link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB51 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Blimey Rog (RJ) the link runs off the page. Where's link wrap when you need it? R- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelrow Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Whats link wrap, does it come with string. Does not work in france, however, unfortunately. john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graskie Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I think I ate a linx wrap once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 And if you had pressed space bar after pasting the link Rog it would have turned into a clickable link to save people having to type it into their browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissaf Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Everyone seems to be missing the obvious point of the OP's situation. He has clearly stated that his PC Desktop is downstairs. His railway is in the loft. It is therefore unlikely he will be running or even intend to run Railmaster on the downstairs PC. Connecting the Tablet with hand held RailMaster application (wireless or otherwise) to the downstairs PC gets him nowhere. If the master Railmaster is loaded on downstairs PC then it will still need to physically connect to the Elite in the loft - are people suggesting a great long USB lead? For best results, RailMaster needs to be co-located with the railway layout. Thus the tablet he has got, needs to run the FULL version of Windows not Windows RT or some other such cut down Windows version. So that it can run the full version of RM natively. By all means 'shoot me down in flames' if I am wrong or missing something here..........I feel a 'rata tata tata tat' being typed somewhere......probably in OZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 The only other solution is if his loft sockets are on the same ring as his pc sockets then plug in networking thingies may help to get a 'connection' up there.My Cypriot house is 3 phase and I have no idea which ring is wired to what phase of my 3rd world electrics, but I can get all my pcs, Apple TV, internet torrent grabbing Smart Box and iPads to talk to each other using a combo of plug-ins and WiFi extenders.I also shall stand well to one side awaiting the flak Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissaf Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Even with LAN extenders, it doesn't get over the issue that the Elite doesn't have an Ethernet connection only USB. The LAN extenders would overcome the wi-fi problem and allow the Tablet to connect to the PC, but how does the PC connect to the Elite? A very long USB lead is unlikely to be reliable over long distances even if of high quality screened construction..Just as an aside Rob, Look out for your requested 'Police Car - How To' sometime tomorrow. Looks like I will finish it ahead of my original schedule. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yelrow Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 My ethernet cable, is 50 foot long, and works a treat. I understand ethernet is better than usb, but am advised that it would be perfectly able to run RM. Before i had my ethernet, i used a long usb, with very few problems. john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RDS Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 As Chrissaf has suggested, the PC running RailMaster needs to located with the railway. I would suggest a dedicated laptop. That is what I use.You could even use a cheap 2nd hand? one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 .Just as an aside Rob, Look out for your requested 'Police Car - How To' sometime tomorrow. Looks like I will finish it ahead of my original schedule.OK Chris - looking forward to it.Just trying edit again as you are still having trouble - did it work - it did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rog RJ Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 And if you had pressed space bar after pasting the link Rog it would have turned into a clickable link to save people having to type it into their browser. I did put a space after the link but I'm using a tablet and it seems to change the way a link is posted. You will also notice that it has stripped out the space before the start of the link (http) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
96RAF Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I did put a space after the link but I'm using a tablet and it seems to change the way a link is posted.Why doesn't everything just work across the board.Why can't a computer just have one red button and when you press it it knows what you want it to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teedoubleudee Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I did put a space after the link but I'm using a tablet and it seems to change the way a link is posted.Why doesn't everything just work across the board.Why can't a computer just have one red button and when you press it it knows what you want it to do. I seem to remember James Bond had one of those in his Aston Martin. Probably not the result you're looking for ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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