Settings
All the options of the computer that do not change from one race to the next. They apply immediately and are kept from one launch to the next (no Save button). This page covers the first eight tabs; the rest is in Backup, files, links.
- The tabs, on the left.
- The content of the chosen tab.
Information
Show the log
Where: Settings › Information
The session log, in the Configuration module. Unchecked, it disappears.
Show the message bar
Where: Settings › Information
The last message, at the bottom left of the main window.
Notifications
Where: Settings › Information
Coming soon.
Check races finished but without a start
Where: Settings › Information › Startup checks
Kept; FINISH does not run this check yet. At launch, it puts the races from a shutdown without closing back in order on its own (loaded → not raced; in progress or finished → raced).
Check races not finished but with a start
Where: Settings › Information › Startup checks
Kept; same remark.
Open the session configuration at startup
Where: Settings › Information
Checked: FINISH starts with the Session configuration (Cancel quits). Unchecked: it starts with the choices from last time.
Validate it automatically after (s)
Where: Settings › Information
The countdown of the automatic confirmation at launch (10 s by default).
Training
Free sequence (generate free training) Training
Where: Settings › Training
The same box as in the session configuration: the configuration checks it automatically in training (and at every launch in training); unchecked here, it stays unchecked until the next launch. The group schedule is set in the Schedule tab.
Lapping
See also the Lapping tab of timing. These settings survive a restart and a change of session.
Enable lapping
Where: Settings › Lapping
Enabled: the “Lapping” tab appears in Timing (after Annotations) and the displays receive the held lap. Disabled, lapping does nothing.
Last lap hold time
Where: Settings › Lapping
How long the held lap stays shown before another one can be held (4 s). It then stays on screen until the next lap.
Mode
Where: Settings › Lapping
Individual: each athlete's lap, from their previous passing to this one. Pack: athletes following each other closely form a pack; the lap starts from the passing of the head of the pack on the previous lap.
Pack: maximum gap (m)
Where: Settings › Lapping
Two athletes following each other by less than this distance (the time gap converted to meters at the lap speed, on the session's track) are in the same pack (2 m).
Hold only laps within the athlete's minimum and maximum
Where: Settings › Lapping (checked by default)
The athlete's min/max; failing that, their race's, otherwise the one from the settings. A lap outside these limits is not shown.
Minimum lap
Where: Settings › Lapping
A passing closer than this to the previous one (double read, second transponder) is not a lap (2 s).
Reset if no lap for
Where: Settings › Lapping
With no lap held for this time (15 min), lapping starts again from zero and the displays clear. 0: never.
Lapping line
Where: Settings › Lapping
The loop whose passings make the laps. Empty: the first finish line of the track. An unknown athlete is ignored; “Passings OFF” suspends lapping; each held lap is written to the database.
Keypad and signals
Lap time
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Numeric keypad
Each key of the numeric keypad records a lap for the athlete. (With a decoder only, this is always the case.)
Final time only
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Numeric keypad
The key gives the athlete's final time (manual finish timing), in Manual or Hybrid mode. The same choice is in the command strip.
Key event
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals
Key released or pressed: coming soon.
Delay
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals
None, before or after processing: coming soon.
Delay value (cs)
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals
Coming soon.
Ctrl + numpad 0 = manual start
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Signals
Always active in FINISH (box grayed out): Ctrl+keypad 0 gives the manual start.
MAN signal (manual passings on jacks 1 to 8)
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Signals
Coming soon.
Photo-finish: close finish if the gap is at most
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Signals
Two athletes next to each other in the standings with a final time gap of at most this duration (50 ms) are flagged “photo finish” (close finish). 0: never. Applies to races loaded afterwards.
Use the bell
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Bell
Starting values for new races (the race's Bell tab). The bell rings when an athlete approaches the line for their last lap: they have two laps left, their last lap lasted more than 5 s, and the moment “start of the lap + ratio × duration of the last lap” is reached.
First only
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Bell
The bell rings only for the leader of the standings.
Second-to-last lap ratio
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Bell
0.95: the bell rings at 95% of the previous lap's duration, just before the athlete reaches the line. A race template can give its own.
Minimum time between two bells (ms)
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Bell
3000 ms: two bells do not overlap. An elimination bell that falls within this delay is not lost: it rings when the delay ends (if the leader has not yet completed the elimination lap).
Ring on this computer (speaker connected to FINISH)
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Bell
The short track case: the bell comes out of the FINISH computer.
Broadcast the bell (ChronoFEED-VOICE rings it)
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Bell
The long track case: a signal is sent immediately through the broadcast and VOICE rings the bell on its PA system. The two outputs are independent.
Bell WAV file
Where: Settings › Keypad and signals › Bell
Empty: LastLap.wav in the FINISH folder, otherwise a synthesized bell. The “…” button chooses a file; Listen plays
it; Default sound clears the field. A line says which sound will ring (in red if the file does not exist).
Timing engine
The rates and thresholds of the calculation: they are set once for the equipment, rarely during a session.
Standings calculation update (timeout)
Where: Settings › Timing engine › Rates
Slider kept; FINISH does not use it: the standings are recalculated at each passing, the screen at the next frame.
Wait between two passings
Where: Settings › Timing engine › Rates
Slider kept, with no effect: passings are processed as soon as they arrive.
Force interface refresh
Where: Settings › Timing engine › Rates
Slider kept, with no effect: the screen follows every frame (about 60 per second).
Max no. of passings
Where: Settings › Timing engine › Passings
Kept, with no effect for now.
Limit past passings
Where: Settings › Timing engine › Passings
A passing older than this (1 h) is refused by the race (“passing too old” in the log): a sign of a badly set decoder clock, or of a replay that is too old.
Double transponder
Where: Settings › Timing engine
“Check final times with two transponders”: when an athlete wears two chips, a final time that the second one does not confirm is flagged.
Second transponder delay
Where: Settings › Timing engine
Two passings of the same athlete closer together than this (1.5 s) are their two transponders: only one passing counts.
Final delay (2nd transponder)
Where: Settings › Timing engine
At the finish, how long to wait for the second transponder (200 ms).
Final times invalid if >
Where: Settings › Timing engine › Final times (PhotoFinish / Transponders / Photocell)
When the photo finish time and the transponder time differ by at least this threshold (100 ms), the athlete's row carries a red “gap N ms” badge.
Display
Interface type
Where: Settings › Display
Tabs (one tab per race), Horizontally (races one above the other) or Vertically (side by side). See Races in progress.
Height of a race (px)
Where: Settings › Display
Horizontally: the starting height of each race (200 to 2160 px). After that, the bottom edge of a race can be dragged.
Width of a race (px)
Where: Settings › Display
Vertically: the starting width (320 to 3840 px). After that, the right edge of a race can be dragged.
Ranking row height (px)
Where: Settings › Display
For new races (78 px). Each race is then set with a right-click on its standings. Below 60 px, the row becomes compact.
Ranking lap width (px)
Where: Settings › Display
The width of a tile (104 px) for new races.
Number of races displayed
Where: Settings › Display
Coming soon.
Lap display
Where: Settings › Display
Coming soon; each race is set in its Options tab.
Dynamic display
Where: Settings › Display
Coming soon.
Gender comes from
Where: Settings › Display
The race or the athlete: coming soon.
Time formatting
Where: Settings › Display
The formats (full time, with a period, to the tenth, to the thousandth…): coming soon. Times are displayed in hundredths, without needless zeros (“12.5”, “1:12.12”).
Force full time after (s)
Where: Settings › Display
Coming soon.
Ranking tile colours
Where: Settings › Display
The background and text of the tiles for the four states of a lap (not done, started, late, completed), with a preview; Default colours. The displayed races follow immediately.
Report logo
Where: Settings › Display › Reports
Coming soon.
Overall standings
The overall standings compare athletes' times across all the races of a competition. At each passing, this computer stores its time in the shared database, in the slot for its technology (transponder, photocell, manual timing). The official time belongs to EVENT.
Keep the general classification in the database
Where: Settings › Overall standings
Checked: FINISH writes its times to the overall standings (History › Overall standings tab, and EVENT).
This computer computes the live positions (master)
Where: Settings › Overall standings
Only one computer at a time computes the live positions of a competition. A transponder computer always tries to be the one, even without this box.
General classification by index
Where: Settings › Overall standings
The index is the rank of a distance for an athlete in the competition (their 2nd 500 m has index 2). Checked: each index has its own live standings. Unchecked: all the 500 m races of the competition together (an athlete can appear several times). Men, women and mixed are always ranked separately.
Results server
FINISH sends no results to the ChronoFEED results database: only EVENT publishes there, and only results set to "Official" (since 2.0.25; there is no longer a "Share results" box, a sending consent or a queue). FINISH uses it for the athletes' rights, from their record: view what the server keeps about them, delete some of it, refuse publication (Shared results). A queue left by a previous version is emptied at startup, without sending anything. The scenario Results in the ChronoFEED database explains who publishes what.
Results server address
Where: Settings › Results server
Empty: https://resultats.chronofeed.ca. Change it only for a test server.
Results server log
Where: Settings › Results server
The last 200 lines: List (an athlete's results viewed), Deletion (with the reason), Publication ("Publish results" ticked or unticked, and when the server learned it), Error (network, licence, server not up to date: one line per outage, not one per attempt). Sending lines from a previous version (Consent, Queued, Sending, Refused, Disabled) remain readable. Each line shows the computer and the Windows user; Refresh reloads it.