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I hope that they'll be back up soon. Anyways, you might find what you search at https://web.archive.org/web/20180725052506/http://www.monobrick.dk/

The white/blue/yellow double decker is a regional train, yes. It's used by a company from lower saxony.

I'm not sure about the FW; it should be the current one. Powered Up SW is 3.0.0. But yeah, you're right. Boost motor + Control+ XL Motor don't work. 2x Boost however do work

The "dumb" motors (train motor and wedo 2.0/ batmobile) motor can't measure their speed so you can't control them via speed. You can only control them via power. The program works for me with 1x Hub v4 and 2x boost medium linear motors.

You mean 64 bit Mac? There is a new software for them: https://www.lego.com/en-pl/themes/mindstorms/downloads

Is there a reason why you use the speed control and not the motor power control? Do both of your motors have rotation sensors? It might help to put a delay of about 0.2 seconds after the motor block because the program might cause too many reads.

Normal bluetooth, especially with lego products (mindstorms) has been very unrelieable, yes. But for me BLE works well with the hubs. You can do much more with a 2 way communication.

Powered Up uses Bluetooth 4.X LE (Low Energy), so it's the power saving variant. Of course it needs a bit more energy, but on the other hand you can do much more with it. Also, many people complained about the disadvantages of IR (line of sight, problems in sunlight, not safe for exhibitions etc). Also, there is a remote for the hub v4 (the one included in the trains) that doesn't need a phone. I can't confirm claims of batteries lasting only half an hour.

Windows devices don't support the control+ app (or the powered up app)

1. I think that the problem is the configurability of the motors. When should they be used as "Tank controls", when should they be used for normal steering, when should 2 motors be used at the same time (as seen in the offroad vehicle from last year) when should they be calibrated and how do you include a complicated model like the Liebherr (with multiple hubs) into that? I think that lego is the only one with enough power on the market to develop a "standard" system.

I can't confirm bad battery life for the pup hub either. It ran 25 minutes straight without any major problem. The boost hub is a bit different. It consumes much energy after you ran a program on it. You should turn it off after every usage. https://www.philohome.com/wedo2reverse/consumption.htm

Normal bluetooth and BLE use 2.4GHz

There are lights since the Powered Up trains came out.. I think that was 2017. However they are limited in usability because you can only attach 2 per port and there are very limited ports

One feature request: can you add support to control Power Functions through the Boost Light and distance sensor? It can actually serve as Power Functions Remote, as discussed at

You can probably control them with an arduino or something similar, but it'd be better to ask them directly. BTW, 4dbrix offers something similar. I'm not sure which solution is better.

1) I have no wedo sensor 2) I can confirm that. But I think that the problem already was there before the latest PUP App update and there was no firmware update for the Move hub with 3.0.0 3) My Move hub doesn't connect to my handheld

What about hitechnic sensors? They have been sold through the official lego store and have the shape of original lego sensors What about sd cards (for the ev3)? You need one to use specific operating systems like ev3dev (unofficial) or micropython (official) What about usb hardware for the ev3 like wifi dongles and bluetooth dongles that were not made by lego (but in case of the wifi dongle officially supported)? What about 3rd party hardware to run powered up programs like tablets with the official app or pcs with unofficial software?

I bought the disney train on black friday and the dark green was off, and the stickers were too short (as if lego didn't calculate the bigger surface due to the curve).

I think that we aren't talking about the same. The 3 %-values are probably for the different LED colors (R, G, B).

I think the value is -1 (error) because the block can't be used in this configuration. You can't add a number to a [hub port] datatype. The -1 is the result of the maths block, not the actual value of the hub select block.

Which values in per cent? You can't use the battery state in a program as far as I know. I get "01| [Plug Symbol]" if I select the plug. This block returns the flag of the used hub, no actual sensor value or something. You can imagine it as follows: (binary values) AABBBBBB AA represents the selected hub. 00 means hub 0, 01 hub 1, 10 hub 2 and 11 hub 3 BBBB represent the port. Each value represents one port. This is what the block returns, nothing more. It tells the other blocks which flag (Port/ Hub) to communicate with. The plug flag is for sensors that use the sensors included in the hub (aka the gyro sensors in the control+ hub).

Do you mean that showing the battery state doesn't work if you have multiple hubs? Or do you mean the default output of it if it's not connected? It's return value is the "hub flag" - a number that encodes the hub number (1-4) and the selected port (A-D). Idk why it shows -1 for you, but it shows 02|A for me.

What do you mean by HUB connector? There is no way to display text with the powered up app, so why would you need text variables?

As a note to Phil B. You can also buy the electrical components in the lego stores (but you have to ask the employees) or you can buy them in the powered up/ Power functions category in the lego shop.

My guess is that the price calculation of the new Powered Up elements forced a way to save money with the trains. Sometimes you can buy the passenger train for the same price as the electronic parts alone - and the passenger train has track included.