wireless scoring to everyone's laptop (Page 2 of 2)

Got it covered.  Stop by the Lab Rats pits on Friday night and I'll get you set up.

Yes we had live scoring at BW.  The range wasn't that great.  Jay set up a laptop at HQ.  There seemed to be some interest in it as there was always someone looking at the scoring.  As stated else where, BW was the closest finish of any Lemons race to date.  The two teams vieing for the win were veterans of many races and had their act together.  At one point, a half hour before the end they were six seconds apart.  Maybe they were monitoring the scoring but I don't know for sure.  For the rest of us, live scoring revealed the tightness of the race.  Jay let everyone know about the close race by annoucing it over the PA.  That created some 'citement as ole DW would say.  Maybe the V8volvo team or the sausage team could post here if they used the live scoring to keep track of their progress.

What you need for NL is to call the track and ask them what is their scoring setup. They may already have live scoring.  What Buttonwillow has is AMB's Orbits 4, RMonitor programs and a router.  The RMonitor program is an earlier version of wireless scoring.  The latest version is called MyLapsMonitor(available through AMB, but you must call them, $300).  One of these versions must be loaded on your laptop.  You will have to use NL's scoring computer's IP address. The good folks at BW just gave us a copy of their RMonitor program.   The Orbits 4 program must be configured for live scoring broadcasts.  That entails enabling the scoreboard,  opening port 50000 and hooking up a router.  We got our laptop running with the help of the T&S folks in the scoring room.  After that we had to be near the tower to receive the signal.  Broadcast propagation is fickel so you will have to find a good receive spot.

Thanks, Cap'n. If you're going to be at NL, I'd love to hang with you while you're getting it set up so maybe we can copy that setup for the Houston race at the end of October if the folks down there will let us do so. Cheers!