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Electronic 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.
When MeOS receives punches without having direct contact with the unit, it cannot determine what kind of unit (start, finish, check, control, clear, etc.) is connected. Instead, the code number is used. After the unit is connected, the Control Mapping form is shown, where you can set how different codes are to be interpreted. Code numbers above 30 are always interpreted as corresponding control.
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). Here follows a list rules explaining how MeOS will use incoming punches:
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). Here follows a list rules explaining how MeOS will use incoming punches:
- If a start punch is registered for a competitor, the start time is set.
- A finish punch sets the finish time, but does not update the status (the result is considered preliminary), unless you activate Result on finish punch, see More About Classes
- 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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