Great video, and fantastic job of explaining how Blunami works to folks like me who are still struggling to fully wrap our brains around DCC! Thank you!

This is a real game changer for the hobby, Congratulations to Soundtraxx for his stunning breakthrough.

By the way Larry, I have watched your videos for hours on end and credit you with giving me an understanding of the nuts and bolts of starting a layout from scratch. My last experience was with my Dad 60 years ago...good memories.

I've often thought that a garden railroad needed to be powered and controlled like an RC car. My brother in law has one and he is always cleaning and cussing track. Now Soundtraxx is bringing us closer to this concept. Imagine a battery powered HO scale train controlled by your phone! Or better yet an IPad. No track cleaning in the future I am sure! Powered frog? What powered frog! Wiring will be archaic! The possibilities are vast.

I had Blue Rail boards installed in my G scale locomotives. Much cheaper than DCC G scale. I’m glad Soundtraxx took them over. Hopefully they have better commercial success. I really like the bluetooth technology for trains. Lionel has been doing it for a long time already

As always, thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience with the kids and I!

Thank you so much for pointing out the JST 9-wire connector on the decoder! I have a couple of "DCC Ready" locomotives that I have purchased that have that same connector, currently with non-sound decoders. I was considering upgrading to a SoundTraxx decoder anyway, and I think I now know which decoder I will be purchasing. :-) This should make the decoder "plug and play" in my locos!

Thank you Larry, great Video as usual what a great bit of kit.

This is mind blowing. Changes everything wow 😲 Luv it

Excellent informative video I enjoyed watching it.👍😁😁😁🇬🇧🚂

Great video Larry. I'll keep an eye out for your next video.

Thank you for sharing.👍👀

Regarding the Blunami and the problem of equalizing the speed of the locomotives that will integrate a consist, the following occurred to me: with the only diesel locomotive I have equipped with that decoder, I opened the screen where the CVs are listed and copied the data from the 28 speeds of that machine (almost all are separated by 9 points) and then I modified the corresponding CV of the rest of the locomotives that I have with other decoders of the same and other brands. I then started it up on speed 2, 6, 12, 18, 24, and 28 a foot apart. They completed a lap of the circuit of about 20 meters keeping the distance almost unchanged.

Thanks Larry. 👍👍👍

Just heard about this. When it get in Android&plug/play I will use this on a new switch layout with the new GP9 w/slug Rapido.

I have installed dozens of decoders and I’ve never had the problems I’ve had with Blunami. So far each one has had technical issues, of which two needed to be returned for warranty repair, including factory processing errors.

thank you for sharing video and thank you full detail in video

I used to like your channel a lot. Then I saw you flaunting your GP9 Redbird in the background. ;-) j/k. love your videos!

These are great, but they’d be a thousand times better if they transmitted sounds via Bluetooth. There are times I want sound, but the people around me don’t. Sound through wireless EarPods would be the perfect solution. This option might benefit N and Z scale too, as you could put speakers outside the locomotive if it lacks the space for one.

This is awesome. I would like to see some N scale Next18 decoders come out in the future so I can fit one into my N Scale Class 92 from Revolution Trains and as an Android user. I look forward to seeing the Blunami app come to this platform as well. Thanks for the video buddy. I have subscribed and liked. All the best from Belfast.

Larry, I got my Blunami Steam decoder installed in one of my BLI On30 C-16s. Works great and I can run that C-16 with my mini-iPad. I just need to cleanup the install tomorrow.

Thanks larry

This has to be one of the most interesting new DCC products to come along in a long time. Others have already alluded to this, but to say it directly, there are those of us who want actual knobs and buttons rather than a touch screen. I wonder if this will create a market for Bluetooth controllers that satisfy this.

Blunami is to work with either IOS or Android using Bluetooth, one decoder same bluetooth. What's missing is an Android application for android-based devices.

This is a game changer especially if your starting anew and want all the benefits of this product. The other side is if you already have dcc layout with wires and regular wireless I am thinking you have to make a hard decision. Either start buying these new units or use the now older wireless systems . I also see these do not consist with the Tsunami 2's or other decoders...hard decisions coming for people.

Interesting technology, but the only reason I changed, from DCC++ EX to Digitrax, is that I didn't liked controlling my trains from a touchscreen (either from a tablet or a cellphone)

Larry Yes I was watching the Sound Traxx videos on the Blunami decoder they look very interesting but a little pricey May I will try one to see how it goes.

I started off thinking what's the point of bluetooth if you can control it by DCC, sort of got it when you said you can use the app to control it on a DC layout (though it would still be dependent on the DC power supply being on to all the tracks you want to travel on), but the lightbulb really came on when you said - almost in passing - that you could run it off a battery. Ok, my first thoughts then might have been about sneaking a battery powered loco with one of these fitted onto somebody else's layout resulting in rather wicked Gomez Addams style train crashes, but how great would they be for kids' starter packs - no electricity needed! Or for garden railways, where it becomes a sort of easy radio control, though I guess the range of Bluetooth might become an issue in a garden, even in some UK gardens, let alone the US. Look forward to your next video.

So is this the start of "RC" controled railroad modeling?

Great video - production quality, content, etc. But we can always count on your videos for that. Question: do you have any info about Android versions? Specifically, does Soundtraxx make the current Blunamis with the capability to update/upgrade the capability when Android versions become available? My gear is all Android. Blunami seems wildly interesting, but if the current versions will have no update capability all us Android users will have to wait. I'm about to begin the process of updating more than a dozen old locos to DCC and Blunami would be a viable option if I didn't have to wait long for decoders. Thanks!

I have an Athearn RTR locomotive that is DCC ready and has the 9 PIN connection. I heard a lot of talk about using an 8 PIN adapter and hard wiring and wanted to be clear. Can this be plugged straight into an existing 9 PIN connection? Either a DCC ready loco, or one that I have hardwired a 9 PIN connection to?

This sounds great! Now I’m going to have to upgrade a few engines! Life 0937 NMRA

The big question I have and never have gotten a solid answer to is, will the new Blunami consist with a standard Tsunami 2, and, will I be able to control both engines with the new iOS app thru the Bluetooth connection? Maybe you could test this to see if it will work? Thanks.

I have two questions first using DC power will the loco have better throttle controll like DCC and reverse loop wiring will that have to be handled like DC ops.?

There are suddenly a lot of KZfaq videos posted by the Lego Train groups about using the Blunami. I wonder what else one could use it for?

Monday, can you speak about the fact that the decoder is covered up an has no antenna for the bluetooth signal. I would like to know about the signal reception, I know bluetooth doesn't go that far, like 30 feet before it breaks (experience from my iphone and bluetooth speaker) thanks for another great video!

What model soldering iron do you have? Hakko Soldering iron? I need a new one so I need your advice.

The questions which immediately come to my mind are about range and scalability. Bluetooth 4 and upward can have quite a long range, but it doesnt take much to reduce it a lot - and a model layout with all those motors and such is an electrically noisy environment. I'd be interested to know if the wireless commands are handshaken. One of the periodic issues with conventional DCC is that a command is not received. Is there some verification back from the decoder to each command, or does the controller try again or raise an operator alarm if no such verification is received? How does the system perform on a layout with a lot (say, maybe 20) controlled trains or items simultaneously active?

Would you make a how to install battery power as a final in this blunami series?

What UK N'Gauge locomotives is this device available for

If you're using the app and running a locomotive. What happens if someone calls? Does the locomotive stop or keep going? Thank you.

Any discussion about making a 21 pin version? I could pop t in my decoderbuddy installed trains.

Is there any blutooth sound output to run a sub woofer under the layout?

Good day Larry : Does this mean that if I put these decoders into my DCC engines i will not have to buy a DCC control station and put in all that wiring on a layout that I have started to build but only run wiring for turnout. I can't fine your DCC catalog anywhere and the hobby shops Im buying from online Don't have it.I live in a city of 700,000 and the nearest train hobby shop is over a 4 hr drive.

Try programming it with the app. That is the whole purpose of not having a command station or JMRI.

Can you put a Blunami decoder in an HO Bowser SD40 with a 21 pin DCC board without having to take out and replace the installed board

I’m not sure I understood the wiring with the 9 pin plugs. What would the plug plug into?

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I've worked in IT for 20 years so to say I love technology is an understatement but this doesn't appeal to me at all.