No idea on how long it has been on the market. Might be an interesting discussion for you DCC experts. Check out the BLI site. I have no use for it.
I have some BLI locos so they do make a good DCC loco with sound.
Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
This has already been discussed a couple weeks ago on this forum -- the general opinion was, "Who needs it?" If you know anything at all bout DCC you can do the same thing with your throttle.
This seems to be one of those "expensive solution" in search of a problem, situations.
For whatever reason, and it's not only one, some DCC enthusiast/users cannot change a decoder address to save their souls. They don't know how to use their own systems, or their own systems need some help in the form of a resistor across programming tracks, or...dunno....whatever....but they have one or more locos where they have to run them on Address 123 and not their intended cab # 225 or #3014, which are per NMRA specs, and most decoders, long addresses.
This is a happy pill, a horse choker, for those who will have to default to a one-button execute device.
-Crandell