Chip Timing Integration¶
If your event is using the RaceTec software to process results for a road/XC race, relay, or live track splits, you can integrate it with OpenTrack allowing the timing company to focus on capturing the results while you can manage all the athlete data within OpenTrack. We can pull the times and bib numbers in real time to populate the event with splits, relay leg times and final performances ensuring everyone can follow the race wherever they are.
This not only allows a quick and easy way to get the results over to OpenTrack for publishing, scoring and submitting to statisticians like Power of 10, but it also allows relay team declarations to be changed up until the last minute.
Integrating OpenTrack and RaceTec¶
To link up your RaceTec results to OpenTrack, you need to head to the TV and Photofinish management screen, and scroll to RaceTec and click INTEGRATE to bring you to the RaceTec integration page.
First you will want to copy and paste the RaceTec URL to the results for each event, as seen below for the BMAF Road Relays, and then click SAVE. Then when you want to pull the resutls down click FETCH to pull through the latest results.
Note
Each race will need a unique event in the event grid to create a field to save the result URL to.
Live Results¶
If you want to have live results updated throughout the day, you will need to head to the bottom of the page, on the day of competition and enter the time when all results should be finished. Then press GO, this will get the system to fetch results every minute until the set time, giving you real time live results.
Configuring RaceTec¶
You ensure results can be pulled in seamlessly without any issues, you need to ensure the RaceTec software is configured correctly so we can properly interpret the data.
When processing the final result of an athlete or team, we expect to see either a time in hr:min:sec.ms where 00:49:25.32 is a time we'd expect to see, or also DNF, DQ, QRY, UOF, Started, and Not started.
Road/Track/XC Races¶
Pulling down results from a race which simply has individual results, all you will need to ensure is that the RaceTec page looks like the image below from the Dulwich Podium 5K and everything should run as expected.
Relays with Live Splits¶
We can pull the time of each relay leg live from RaceTec but you must make sure a few things are correctly configured where you're recording the time of each leg, you must label each legs as Leg {leg_num} where you'd have each leg labelled as Lap 1, Lap 2,... The photo below shows the BMAF Road Relay Results from RaceTec which are correctly formatted, which we were able to pull over minute by minute.
Road/Track/XC Races with Live Splits¶
To pull through live splits, you will need to ensure the name of each split is the distance in metres, and you've correctly set the distance of each split in OpenTrack.
To do this you will want to head to the events page, and click VIEW to bring you to the unit level page, and then click EDIT SPLITS on the right hand side of the page. Here you just need to set at what distance the first split will be taken, and the distance of each lap, and click save.
Then once the race starts, if you set off the auto-fetch, live splits should be pulled in as the race unfolds.