Configure a Mobile Scoreboard with FlashTiming

If you want to take your live results game to the next level, setting up a live track scoreboard is a great first step! A live track scoreboard is the mobile-device equivalent to a big stadium display. Instead of waiting for all heats to finish and the results to be processed through your meet management software before finally being displayed when the event concludes, keep your fans on the edge of their seats by displaying each athlete's place and time directly from your FAT software! As soon as you evaluate each runner's time, preliminary results appear on your fans' mobile devices!

This article explains how to send scoreboard data from FlashTiming to AthleticLIVE.

Requirements

The following software is required to connect FlashTiming with AthleticLIVE.

  1. FlashTiming FT-FAT software for the FT-FATLS Plus and FT-FAT200 systems. Users may download the latest version from the website, FlashTiming.com. Click on Downloads from the main menu bar and then Updates.
  2. Create a meet on AthleticLIVE.
    1. You will need a Professional Credit or a Standard w/ Track Scoreboard credit.
    2. Select FlashTiming in the "F.A.T. Timing System" dropdown.

Step 1 - Enter Credentials

From the FT-FAT main screen:

  1. Click the menu icon in the upper left.
  2. Click Displays in the menu.
  3. Select AthleticLIVE in the drop-down menu.
  4. Enter the IP Address, Results Port Number and Key provided by AthleticLIVE. Note: Clock Port is for displaying the running race clock on AthleticLIVE site. This feature will be available in a future release.
  5. Click OK.

Step 2 - Display Setup

  1. In the Display Setup window:
    1. Check Entries to have the ability to send entries to AthleticLIVE.
    2. Check Results to have the ability to send results to AthleticLIVE.
    3. Check Save Results on Save if you want to automatically send results to AthleticLIVE when you save the results for a race.
  2. Click OK.

Step 3 - Send Entries to AthleticLIVE

  1. Click on the Scheduled Events Tab.
  2. Click the Event in the list.
  3. Click the List button in the toolbar.

Step 4 - Send Results to AthleticLIVE

  1. Click the Record Times Tab.
  2. Click A in the tool bar to automatically send results to AthleticLIVE whenever a time is entered in the result table.
  3. Click the List button to send the current results to AthleticLIVE.

Times will automatically be sent to AthleticLIVE when the Save Times button is clicked if the option was selected in the Display Setup window.


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