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Automatic Radio Times
MeOS supports electronic radio controls. Program a master station as a control or finish and make sure send punches / auto send is active (see your SportIdent documentation).Now go to the page SportIdent in MeOS. Make sure readout / radio is selected. Choose the COM port to which the unit is connected and then click Activate. MeOS will try to contact the unit, but if the control is far away or connected via a radio link, it is not certain MeOS will get a response.
You are then asked if you want MeOS to listen to incoming punches. If you answer yes, MeOS will listen to the selected port. To verify the connection, you have to test punch. MeOS cannot detect if the contact with the SI unit is lost.
MeOS Insight
You may connect a finish, start, check or clear unit in the same way as you connect controls (It is for example possible to clear card at the same time they are assigned to competitors). If MeOS gets a response from the master station, it will tell MeOS how it is programmed. If MeOS does not get any response and listens to incoming punches, it is not possible to determine what type of unit is connected. MeOS makes the following assumption:
To transfer radio times via an Internet connection, please refer to Remote Input and Radio Times from the Internet.
You may connect a finish, start, check or clear unit in the same way as you connect controls (It is for example possible to clear card at the same time they are assigned to competitors). If MeOS gets a response from the master station, it will tell MeOS how it is programmed. If MeOS does not get any response and listens to incoming punches, it is not possible to determine what type of unit is connected. MeOS makes the following assumption:
- A code number greater than 30 is interpreted as a control.
- Code number 1 is assumed to be from a start unit.
- Code number 3 is assumed to be a from check unit or clear unit.
- Other code number less than 30 are interpreted as a finish punch.
- If a start punch is registered for a competitor, the start time is set.
- A check or clear punch will not affect the result, but it is taken into consideration when determining which runners remain in forest.
- Punches used to assign cards to competitors are not saved in the competition in any way; the result is the same as if the number was entered manually.
MeOS also supports the protocol SI Online Punches, which means punches can be sent over a network, thought mobile communications or the Internet. Choose TCP in the list of ports. You have to use the same port for TCP as the program that send the punches. MeOS assumes that the zero time of the protocol is 00:00:00. Press Start to open the port.
Note
Make sure any firewall involved will let though the traffic when using SI Online Punches.
Make sure any firewall involved will let though the traffic when using SI Online Punches.
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