Wireless control of LEDs- but not ready for N

[u18b]

Since I bought something from Digikey, they send me emails.  You know the drill.  I hardly ever read them.

But this one caught my eye.

Bluetooth wireless control of LEDs.

http://www.digikey.com/us/en/techzone/lighting/resources/articles/wireless-control-of-linearly-dimmed-led-drivers.html?wt.medium=email&wt.mc_id=em_E9_October_Newsletter_Email&wt.z_email=4256752_WirelessArticle&wt.v_sub=559580303

I think this is for household operation at this point.

But is something sort of big works now, I would think that one day smaller packages would be available.

As for trains, I would think that since some people don't like DCC, that if a module was small enough for N scale one day, you could control the lights on an analog loco with your cell phone.

(The data sheet for some of this stuff is 52 pages long!)

[ljudice]

I was reading that Phillips was producing a family of lamps to work with the Lowes IRIS system directly, but I guess that is some carrier signal over the household wiring...

[peteski]

I would find it humorous that a person using DC (and block) control of their model engines would invest in a very modern, complex high-tech wireless way to control lighting of their models.  Honestly, it would be much easier to just install a $15 DCC decoder and have it control the lights and multiple locos on the same track without need fro DC blocks.  The other question is from where would they be able to supply a fixed DC voltage to power the LEDs and those high-tech wireless control doo-dads?

Kind of like installing a GPS unit in a Ford Model T!