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Configure a Live Track Scoreboard with FinishLynx

Updated 5 months ago

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 track scoreboard data from FinishLynx to AthleticLIVE for Track & Field Events. If you're setting up a scoreboard for Cross Country, see Configure a Cross Country Scoreboard with FinishLynx

In order to connect FinishLynx to AthleticLIVE, you'll need the FinishLynx Network COM Port plugin, which will allow scoreboard data to be sent over a network. The Network COM Port plugin is available for purchase from FinishLynx. Find more info here.

Download the Script

Communication between FinishLynx and AthleticLIVE requires the TMIOV2 scoreboard script, which is available for download on the AthleticLIVE Downloads page. Copy the file to C:\Lynx.

After you copy the script file into C:\Lynx, you'll need to restart FinishLynx before you'll be able to access the script file.

FinishLynx Hidden Settings

You'll need to configure a few of FinishLynx's hidden settings in order to ensure trouble-free communication between FinishLynx and AthleticLIVE. To open the hidden settings, select FileOptions from the menu bar while holding down the SHIFT and CTRL keys.

Click on the + next to Scoreboards, and select PortBuffer. Change the value to 32768. This will prevent scoreboard freezing when lots of data comes in at once.

Next, navigate to EventResultsDeltaDefault. Ensure the From value is set to 0.

Once you've made these changes, click OK and restart FinishLynx.

Configure the Scoreboard

Select ScoreboardOptions from the menu bar.

Click New and set the Name field to ALive Results. Set Serial Port to Network (Connect), then configure the Script, Port, and IP Address fields as indicated on your Meet Details page.

Heads up! Be sure that you're setting your results scoreboard configuration to Network (Connect), not Network (UDP). Your running time scoreboard should be set to Network (UDP), but not your results scoreboard.

These settings will differ for each meet you time. If you don't want to have to update these settings every meet, consider using AthleticLIVE Local.

If you're using AthleticLIVE Local, then you should copy these settings directly from the main page on AthleticLIVE Local, rather than from your Meet Details page. See Introduction to AthleticLIVE Local and Install and Operate AthleticLIVE Local for more information.

Configure the other scoreboard settings as follows:

  • Code Set: Single Byte
  • Running Time: Off (and ignore further Running Time settings)
  • Results: Auto
  • Options
    • Always Send Place: Checked
    • Include First Name: Checked
  • Paging: Unchecked (and ignore Size, Max, and Time
  • Time Precision: Hundredths

Once you've configured the scoreboard, click OK and restart FinishLynx. Return to the Scoreboard Options screen and ensure that the status “Running” is displayed next to your new scoreboard configuration.

If you'd like to improve your Live Track Scoreboard even further, check out Show Compiled and Heat-by-Heat Results from FinishLynx. This will allow you to show a comprehensive heat-by-heat scoreboard using the data from FinishLynx!

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