Getting started

From installation to the first session received: a licence, an access request to your athletes accepted in FINISH, and the tablet then follows by itself.

1. Install the app

   On the tablet, download the app file from the chronofeed.ca website (COACH's Android (APK) button; it is not on the Play Store), then open it. The first time, Android asks you to allow your browser to install apps: Settings, Allow from this source, then Install. The app is called ChronoFEED-COACH (icon: a vermilion stopwatch). A tablet in landscape is ideal; a phone also works.

2. Activate the licence

   Licence menu: paste your token (COA-XXXXX-…, the same kind of token as for the other ChronoFEED software), then Activate. Internet is needed that time; afterwards the licence is checked without Internet.

   “Licence valid until …” in green.

3. Your name

   Settings menu, Coach: your name appears on the PDF reports and in your access requests.

4. Choose your athletes in the current session

   At the arena, with the tablet on the same Wi-Fi as FINISH (which must have “Accept ChronoFEED-COACH” ticked): Synchronization menu, Search for FINISH, then the FINISH of the track. The athletes of its current session appear, each with a chip in the colours of their FINISH record. Tick yours.

5. Request access

   Request access: FINISH shows the request to its operator (tablet name, your name, licence holder), who accepts all, some or none. Without an answer within 5 minutes, the request expires and nothing changes.

   “Anneau de Starford accepted: 6 athlete(s) added to your athletes.” and the list of your athletes: check that they are yours. Only athletes with a complete identity, whose FINISH record allows sending to coaches, are offered; to add more later, send a new request. An accepted access stays valid the following times.

6. Set a load curve

   For each athlete: Athletes, the athlete, Load curve. Without a curve, laps arrive but the load is not calculated. See Setting an athlete's load curve.

7. Training

   Keep the app open: the session arrives live on the dashboard and grows with every lap. App closed or tablet away: at the next connection, the tablet catches up on everything it missed.