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Sport-Ident 102Part 4

Barry McCashinEdmonton Overlanders Orienteering Club

Jan 18, 2009

UofA-BioSci

© BGMcC 2009

Part 4: Other Topics22 slides

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Part 4: Other Topics

• Backup/Restore• MT2003 - multiday events• OE Score• Archive Manager• Report Layout (Layout Editor)• Thermal Printer for Splits• Battery Life• Computer network• View control memory (SI punches)

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Backup/Restore

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Browse to folder for Backup

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Under OE2003/backup/event

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Create new folder automatically

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Gives date/time name

Keep creating new folders and get a series of backups

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Backup (cont)

• Should backup every 15 minutes when time permits

• Can also backup to a remote storage unit (flash disk)

• Can transfer an event to another computer by setting up a new event on another PC, then restore from the flash disk and get a duplicate event

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Browse to folder when restoring

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Other Event software

•MT2003: multi day eventsvirtually identical to OE2003 except treat each day as separate event (1 or 2).not available on web page with other software; special URL

•Need to pay for a software key to use

•OE Score: looks similar to OE2003 but can assess late points and assign different points to different controls

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Archive Manager

• Is a program to edit a master list of competitors from your area.

• To use, copy files to folder Archive under the programs OE2003 or MT2003.

• When entering a new competitor, get a drop down list of names and details from the Archive list; double click and information entered into your event

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Change Layout for Screen

•Extra fields that can name

•Change order of columns

•Change width of columns

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Extra fields available

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Text and number fields

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Entries, view, select

Here are the custom ones we named, can select them

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Entries, Report, Entries

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Entries, Report

Can change Layout for report

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Layout Editor

Can adjust column width, order, add new ones

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Thermal Printer for Splits

• Refer to Printer guide.pdf• Allows immediate printout of splits from

first control to finish• Does not know what time you started so

don’t know time from start to #1 (scheduled start events)

• If use a start punch, get all splits printed

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Battery Life

v4 units: • Expect about 200h on the 3 AA battery units• Battery level indicator roughly correct but for

critical events, measure voltage on each battery and compare to discharge graph (pdf file).

<3.9 volts is >60% exhausted so should replace

v7: expect 4-7 years service

v8: expect 3-5 years

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Computer Network

• For large events, good to connect two (or more) computers for division of labour

• For two, simply use crossover cable between network connectors. For more, use a hub to connect everything

• One database used on Master computer for downloading at finish

• 2nd computer for registering people into same database and printing results

• shut off all firewalls to allow computers to communicate.

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Interrogate Control data

• Can look at SI# stored on any control to see if person completed a punch cycle

• Shows error codes if the entire process was not completed (“ErrA-F” if remove finger punch before finishes operation)

• Can find out who started but is not back yet by looking at Start and Check stations (not 100% accurate)