ChronoFEED FINISH Help
The timekeeper's computer. FINISH receives every passing from your equipment (transponder decoders, photocells, photo finish, numeric keypad), keeps the laps and standings of every race in progress, stores them in the database and broadcasts them to the TABLEAU displays and to the speech synthesis of VOICE. Races come from EVENT, from a file, or are created on the spot.
First steps: training with FINISHNew here? Seven very detailed steps, from installation to your first training session with laps on a big screen.Start here ›- Getting started
The first launch and a tour of the screen, up to a first timed race.
- Scenarios
Set up a computer, a long track competition, free practice, a silent decoder, broadcasting, athletes.
- Reference by screen
Every screen reproduced and explained, setting by setting.
- Glossary
Session, loaded race, raced, finish line, group, lapping…
- Context help (F1)
From the FINISH screen to the right section of this help.
The four modules
| Module | What you do there |
|---|---|
| Timing | The races in progress (timer, standings, commands), the race list, the race flow, the starts, the athletes, the annotations; depending on the setup, the photocells, the schedule and lapping. |
| Broadcast | What is sent to the displays, VOICE and SIM, and the connected clients. |
| Configuration | The equipment: its status, its track and loops, its log, its settings, the recorded passings. |
| History | The database: races, athletes, transponders, laps, overall standings. |
The sample data
The examples in this help use an invented federation, clubs and athletes: the national federation SPEEDSKATING FAMOUS (SKF), its regional federation HOLLYWOOD SPEEDSKATING (HSK), nine clubs and eighty athletes, and the Coupe Hollywood long track competition at the Starford oval (400 m), the same one as in the EVENT help.
- athletes.csv, athletes.xlsx, athletes.json: the 80 athletes, to import into FINISH (Import athletes…);
- clubs.json and federations.json.