Lionel needs to know about that AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. There may be some more to
that than we are aware. I would urge us to alert Lionel.
Chuck
Charles J. Kehoe, ACSW, CCE
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Kehoe Correctional Consulting, LLC
P.O. Box 1265
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Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 2:14 PM
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Subject: [rc3r] Re: Lionel Caboose with Camera
One other thing - it comes with a CD with the software that allows you to view
the camera directly on your computer. During the loading my virus monitoring
program found a virus and said it eliminated it. I canceled the download. Just
more Lionel quality control issues, allowing whoever burned the CD's stick a
virus on it.
Ken
On 6/17/2020 1:22 PM, John Crockett (Redacted sender jctrainman for DMARC)
wrote:
The buy sounds like a mistake to me. Water over the dam, but I would guess
someone would have posted what a pain the thing is to operate/use.
John
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From: Ken Young
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Subject: [rc3r] Lionel Caboose with Camera
The club purchased a Lionel CSX caboose equipped with a WiFi camera. If you
remember the club also has a Norfolk Southern modern observation car with a
camera. Tom asked me to take a look at the caboose and get it working.
One of the problems with these camera cars is the camera is inside the car and
looks through one of the cast clear windows. Being cheap plastic these windows
tend to fog and distort the picture. The solution other people have done was to
just remove the window so I tried to do that. However I wound up knocking the
camera off its mount in the process and had to take the whole caboose apart to
fix it. After struggling for a few hours to take it apart and reassemble it,
everything works.
Some observations:
* The app is terrible. There are a number of steps you have to follow which
aren't well explained or not explained in the instructions. There are functions
on the app that have been disabled but the icons for them are still there. It
was a lot of trial and error to figure out how to do things. We probably need a
"how to" set of instructions or a class before running it on the club layouts.
* It has to have a constant 18 volts on the track to work so it won't work
for conventional operation. The track has to be clean. Any short power
interruption will interrupt the picture and may cause the WiFi to crash. If
that happens you have to reset the camera and start over.
* There are several picture resolutions that can be chosen. The low and
medium resolutions are poor. The high resolution is OK, HD is great but the
frame rate is a lot slower on HD and winds up freezing the picture a lot.
I shot several videos of my home layout to see what worked and didn't work. I
tried emailing one of the videos but the file size is too large and failed to
go through so I posted it on YouTube. Click on this link: ??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySovVe0URa4&feature=youtu.be<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DySovVe0URa4%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&data=02%7C01%7C%7C47442f0b131041b3202e08d812ea43e0%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637280144655913378&sdata=ByJ%2Fh7Try8nK5bCr3RxnHW5rs4sbcRnWtPFoEOYKOLA%3D&reserved=0>????
I used the high resolution setting and it looked fine on my phone. However,
when I emailed it to myself the aspect ratio of the picture changed so that the
picture is distorted vertically (drawn out). I don't have a video editor on my
computer to try to fix that.
Ken
