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Synced Stopwatches

Introduction

This app can be used to manage sport events with mutliple stopwatches.
The stopwatches at the start and at the finish line are synchronized via internet. Therefor no additional communication is necessary to gain all results.
A continuous connection to the internet is not necessary, as all times are stored locally. As soon as the connection is reestablished, all times will be synchronized and the race times will be calculated.

After registration you can create multiple competitions and fill the participants through an excel file. For every competition and every stopwatch an unique id is created. This is needed to login to the competition. After login you will see the participants list in your stopwatch and the mode of the stopwatch (start or finish) is set. The ids are also important for your privacy so only you can see the times.

After the competition is finished, you can export the results to a pdf or excel file. After that you can safely delete the competition. No data will be left on the server.

Registration

To manage the competitions and to load the stopwatches with the participants list, you have to create an account at https://syncsw.software-fuchs.de with a username and a valid mail address. Race results are downlodable as PDF or Excel file.

Create a new competition

There are two modes available for a competition:
- Race: Participants will be organized in groups and will start together
- Time Trial: Every participant has its individual start time
The name, date and distance can be set as well.
Right now you can only use two stopwatches. With later versions you can use more stopwatches to measure split times.

Upload participants at mode "Race"

The icon opens the form to upload a excel or odt file with the participants. There are two template files for download available for the the two different modes of a competition.
The participants are grouped by three possible levels
Race Caption of the competition (ageclass, gender, type)
Heat Number of heat (if a race starts in separate groups)
Subheat Number of subheat (if there is a timelapsed start with the heat)
Race results are grouped by race and heat.
Additional columns are used to set lane, startno, class, club and crew.
With a set value in target time, the percentage of the target time will be calculated.

After the import, the participants will be displayed.

Upload participants at mode "Time Trial"

The icon opens the form to upload a excel or odt file with the participants. There are two template files for download available for the the two different modes of a competition.
Grouping of participants is made by the value of column class (ageclass, gender etc.)
Race results are grouped by class.
Additional columns are used to set startno, club and crew.
With a set value in target time, the percentage of the target time will be calculated. After the import, the participants will be displayed.

The list of stopwatches (Icon ) displays the id of the competition and the ids for the two stopwatches (start and finish). For every mobile you need the combination of competiton id and station id. These are necessary to login at the mobile.

Use the ids to login to the app on two different mobiles. The ids are not case sensitive. The participants will be loaded automatically and the mode of the two smartphones will be set either to start or to finish.

Stopwatch at start at mode "Race"

At the start stopwatch you can select a heat and then start the whole heat at once. If subheats are set, parts of the group can be started in timelapsed mode.

The list at "not finished" (from the main menu) shows the participants who have not yet finished.
With you can cancel a group to perform a restart.

Stopwatch at start at mode "Time Trial"

All participants are ordered by their start number.
You have to start every competitor separately.

The list at "not finished" (from the main menu) shows the participants who have not yet finished.
With you can cancel a single participant to perform a restart.

Stop at the finish line

If there is a connection, you will see the running times of every competitior. You can stop the time for every competitor with a touch on the running time.
If some finishers are close together, you can register the times by using the button "unknown finisher".
After that you are able to assign the participants to any of the registered finish times.
Even if there is no connection to the stopwatch at the start, you can register the times at the finish line. They will be saved locally. If the data connection is reestablished, all saved times will be synchronized automatically.
If the race is completed, you can reorder the finishers by using the button on the results page.

Results

The results are displayed on the results page and can be reordered by using the button .

The results are also displayed at https://syncsw.software-fuchs.de (Icon Live View to the right). Here you can also export the result as a pdf or as an excel file. The live view also shows the current results during the race.