Race Coordinator Posted October 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 I just posted a new build and if you've downloaded and installed it already you've noticed two things. First, this latest beta will reset your license no matter what state it was in before. After installing and running this build you will have a brand new 30 day trial. This is because I've decided to start selling activation codes for the application. On my website you'll see that I'm selling the app for $50 US, however because the application is still technically in beta, I've decided to put it on sale for $25. This sale will go on at least until the official release is done but will end with absolutely no notice. Once I pull the sale, I'll honor any purchases received the day I pull it but no later. With everything RCD offers already I believe $25 is a steal. The purchase can be made through pay pal (see my website). If you don't have pay pal email me and we can work something out but I won't activate you until payment is received and cleared so plan ahead. Extensions to the current trial may be granted however you'll need to provide a reason for needing more than 30 days to evaluate a fully functioning RMS. Most reasonable requests will be granted at least at first. Finally as a reminder, every penny I receive for any of my software goes to charity (see my website charity section for details). So everybody wins if you buy RCD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glengtl1 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 (edited) Hi Dave where is it, i can only find version74 cheers Glen also do i just hit donate to send payment? Edited October 17, 2012 by glengtl1 Quote www.gtlslotcaraccessories.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsxr8 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Click on the tab at the top of the page that says Race Coordinator Digital and scroll down the page until you find Beta releases then click on the link John Quote Check out North Brisbane Slotcar Racing: http://northbrisslots.forumotion.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glengtl1 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Hi John yes i can find where i presume it should be but its a differnet version number and i downloaded it to be sure but its the one i already have ver0.2.1.74, where Dave has me looking for 0.2.1.80 cheers Glen Quote www.gtlslotcaraccessories.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsxr8 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 (edited) Glen I just downloaded .80 from the bottom of this page just above the 5 advertisements http://racecoordinator.net/rcd.html John Edited October 17, 2012 by Johnsxr8 Quote Check out North Brisbane Slotcar Racing: http://northbrisslots.forumotion.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glengtl1 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 oK deleted mt browser history and now i can see the new file Cheers John Quote www.gtlslotcaraccessories.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsxr8 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 No worries Glen Quote Check out North Brisbane Slotcar Racing: http://northbrisslots.forumotion.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glengtl1 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 Morning Gentlemen Im having a problem when scorpius controller selected ,which im feeling it might be my end but i get (lost communication with track) all is good and working with ssd controllers but as soon as i set a race be it practice fuel or non fuel i get this message pop up . Any Ideas what i can look for at my end. cheers Glen Quote www.gtlslotcaraccessories.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsxr8 Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 I am pretty sure that when I disconnect my scorpius dongle and have 3Rd party controllers selected I get that message, I will have a play around with mine this Arvo when I get home and see if I can get that message up John Quote Check out North Brisbane Slotcar Racing: http://northbrisslots.forumotion.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Race Coordinator Posted October 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 Correct. If you select Scorpius as the third party controller in the track configuration you must have the dongle plugged in before you start the race. I can't remember if you'll get the disconnect message if you pull it out once the race is started, but obviously if you do the scorpius controllers won't work. Essentially by saying you want to use scorpius wireless controllers you're accepting that you have to have the dongle plugged in. I'm not 100% sure, but when that message comes up, you might be able to dismiss it and run the race with out the Scorpius controllers... It actually wasn't intended to be that way, but I've seen different reports that imply to me it might actually work that way. -Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsxr8 Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 Yeah Glen i just confirmed it, as soon as i disconnected my Scorpius Dongle and went to enter any race it would come up lost connection with the track but plug it back in an all was fine John Quote Check out North Brisbane Slotcar Racing: http://northbrisslots.forumotion.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glengtl1 Posted October 18, 2012 Report Share Posted October 18, 2012 cheers John I managed to stop getting that error after i removed reloaded 2 times and also ran ssdc with scorpius just to make sure i wasnt going bonkers and it worked, I then ran Rcd and now my car would move but with the crazy take off and runaway business from earlier I finally tracked it down to my pit pro which i have moved under track witt both in and out sensors for pit lane and i powered from track which i believed that i had allowed for correct rail polarity(yet to check that ) as i did swap wires and still no fix, then i used the track piece from pit pro in pit lane and extened the power wires to pit pro under track table and it worked as im typing this the light bulb has buzzed and i beleieve its working because that track piece has the ferrite man thingy across the rails which would elimate the/any interferance i was getting. So i believe its all good yes i can sleep now Thanks for all your help John and Dave Cheers Glen Quote www.gtlslotcaraccessories.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsxr8 Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 The beta on the website has been updated, probably worth giving it a try now with the scorpius controllers glen Quote Check out North Brisbane Slotcar Racing: http://northbrisslots.forumotion.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Race Coordinator Posted October 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Glen has a couple of issues... The gen1 dongle he's using is sending bad data to the RMS. I'm going to look into detecting that and rejecting it, but there's no garantee how much will work because of it. The second problem is hopefully fixed now in the new beta that I just posted, but until we get rid of that gen 1 dongle we won't know for sure... -Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsxr8 Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) Glen are you getting runaway's and lag issues with SSDC at all with your Scorpius controller at all as i actually went to use my Scorpius controller with SSDC for the first time today and had the exact same issues from SSDC as i did with RCD last week with my car running away on the first lap plus the lagginess was noticeable compaired to my wired controller which is a shame as i want to start using it at my racemeets but i have to stick to my wired controller atm as runaway cars and laggy controllers dont make good consistant lap speed. Cheers John Edited October 23, 2012 by Johnsxr8 Quote Check out North Brisbane Slotcar Racing: http://northbrisslots.forumotion.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussieslotter Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) John and Glen PM me your address as the new dongles arrived yesterday so I can get them in the post tomorrow. Rick Edited October 22, 2012 by aussieslotter Quote 3 stooges, 2 apologists and 1 deep endless mess. www.scorpiuswireless.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glengtl1 Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 I John i have had some runnaways and lagging but not all the time but only with Rcd, SSDC has been fine My main problem was loss of commication to track , once i got that it seems to run fine, I have a work around for that with resetting ssd config and rebooting pb. Wil try new dongle and see if it changes John when you open ssd config in track setup do you get a green light in connection to track? cheers Glen Quote www.gtlslotcaraccessories.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsxr8 Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Yeah when I set it up a light momentarily comes on when setting up but only if I have a controller plugged in Quote Check out North Brisbane Slotcar Racing: http://northbrisslots.forumotion.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Race Coordinator Posted October 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 I'm looking at Glens connection issue right now. Somehow RCD tried to open COM3 as his Scorpius port but that's his SSD port. That caused me to get garbage data returned to me which in turn caused me to fail opening the Scorpius connection. All this adds up to the connection lost message. Hopefully there will be something really simple going wrong and it'll be an easy fix. This won't help the "lag" issue as so far that seems to be a connectivity problem to the dongle which may/may not be because of the gen1 dongle. More on this as I have it. -Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glengtl1 Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Cheers john i get nil light unless i highlight com3 then the green light comes on then if i reselect com4 which is my ssd port and close,then re boot pb when i then start a race it works all ok .As Dave said it seems to like my com3 for a connection that isnt there. Im presuming if you select the correct ssd port the green light should be solid, maybe dave could enlighten on that one Glen Quote www.gtlslotcaraccessories.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Race Coordinator Posted October 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Glen, Sent you an email with a new build to test... By selecting COM3 first, you're making my Scorpius auto detect skip that port and therefore avoid the problem After that I save the scorpius port (at least until you update versions) so it works fine when you switch back to COM4... The new build I sent you to try "should" ignore the bad data I'm seeing on your COM3 and find scorpius correctly on COM5 the first time around... Regarding the LED, to be honest I forget if the green light on the configuration screen should be solid or flicker. The only way to know (since I don't have a power base) would be to set it up correctly (drive a car around to be sure), then look at it... I think that light is based on the heartbeat from the power base so it could very easily flicker or not work at all (: I'm tired and going to bed, but I'll look at the code at some point but the best thing to do is have the working connection and let me know what happens... -Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussieslotter Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Generation II dongles in mail today guys as promised. Dont forget the dongle needs a 5m USB extension cable. Get an "Active" one, it has an amplifier built in. 3m cables are too short to get height. Quote 3 stooges, 2 apologists and 1 deep endless mess. www.scorpiuswireless.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnsxr8 Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Great, thanks Rick Quote Check out North Brisbane Slotcar Racing: http://northbrisslots.forumotion.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glengtl1 Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 ok tried new build yesterday afternooon and no problems found with connection using Sorpius controller Cheers Dave nice work, Have several crashes when trying to open ssd config again but intermitent( sending logs to Dave). I tested for lag and surging and could find Nil in both SSDC and Rcd , however there is a strange happening in that sometimes when starting to race the car will seem to be restricted and seems to be sluggish and tight/heavy in its movement, this does happen in both ssdc and Rcd but if pb is rebooted returns back to normal feel.This maybe just my system . Thanks Dave Thanks Rick Quote www.gtlslotcaraccessories.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Race Coordinator Posted October 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 If you start a race that's "sluggish" stop it immediately, exit the RMS and send me the logs and I'll look through them. I'd also say do the same thing in which it's not sluggish and send me those logs too. My guess is that I'm not receiving a signal from the PB fast enough or possibly I'm getting CRC errors. Either one will cause the cars on the track to not respond to the controller. I'm not sure I'd describe that as sluggish, but right now it's the only thing I can think of. I sent you an email regarding the interface configuration crash. Fingers crossed the build I sent you fixed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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