Did my first complete results package using Autodownload and Routegadget.
I had some fun, so this is an aide memoire for what I did.
OCad
- Created a Routegadget version with no extra text, descriptions, map exchange, etc
- Used Course|Export|Course (XML) to create the XML file for both Autodownload and Routegadget
- Used File|Export to create a jpg of the base map
Autodownload
- Added new event
- Selected event
- Courses|Import/Export XML Courses, using the file from OCad
- Connected Download, using an USB 2.0 to RS232 Adapter (VE229) from USBNow.co.uk
- It took a little while to communicate with the Download, but this eventually worked, using the higher of the 2 COM ports
- Tried using Download|Automatic, Manual on Error, but there were 395 extra results from previous events stored and I would have had to manually Skip all of these
- Used Download|Automatic, Non-Stop, this worked, but put all the invalid results into the Orange category
- Couldn’t find a way to get rid of these within AD so, after getting all the hire cards sorted out, used Results|Import/Export Results to XML to get an XML file of results
- Opened this file with Microsoft Expression Web and removed incorrect records
- Created new event and imported the file
- Tried to create splits results, but there was now data
- Imported course data to the new event and splits appeared
Update 8/9/11
I asked SportIdent what to do in this case. They said to use SiConfig to download the unit, then save these as a .csv file, open this with and remove the rows which are not relevant. Save this file which can then be uploaded into Autodownload using the SiConfig download option. This was a little fiddly so here are some more clues, the unit is connected via a USB-Serial adapter:
- Select “direct” instead of “remote” and make sure the serial port settings are correct (COM12, 4800, n, 8, 1 for this setup)
- Choose the “Read out backup memory” button, this will upload all the raw data
- Click on the “ASCII Interface” button, this brings up a list of all the SI Cards
- Click the “Save” button and choose the csv settings and change the folder to somewhere sensible, changing the .TXT to .csv helps as well
- Locate this file and open with Excel
- Find the correct first row for your event and delete all the data rows above
- Save this file
- In Autodownload, use the SiConfig download to import the data
- Used Results|HTML results with One Page for All Results to get simple results page
- Renamed the Index.html file to event_simple.html
- Used Results|HTML results with One Page for All Splits, no results without splits to get splits page
- Renamed the Index.html file to event_splits.html
- Used Results|Export for RouteGadget to export splits for use with RouteGadget
LOC Website
- Uploaded results etc to LOC website
- Couldn’t find Results page when checking on main site
- Error was that I hadn’t selected the Result 2011 category, did this as Administrator
RouteGadget
- Logged on to RouteGadget
- Chose Add and New Event
- Select Load New Map
- Select IOF-XML for Results and Split Times
- Select IOF-XML…no forking for Course Settings
- Click OK then use jpg, Autodownload Routegadet.xml file and Event.Course.xml file from OCad
- When RouteGadget appears, choose All Control from List of Courses
- Click Fit button on bottom Right hand side
- Click middle of Top Right Control (may have to zoom out)
- Click correct position on map
- Click middle of Bottom Left Control
- Click Correct Position on map
- If the controls are now in the correct place then click Save button, otherwise repeat
- Routegadget should now be working!