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ChronoTrack forwarder (deprecated)

The forwarder is a program that runs locally to send reads from ChronoTrack timing systems to RACEMAP. You use the forwarder through command line, no UI.

Flow of information

You can download the software for Windows and Linux from github.com

How does the forwarder work?

  • Opens a port, on your local machine: 3000

  • Listens on localhost IP: 127.0.0.1

  • Waits for TCP/IP connections from ChronoTrack Simple Client software

  • Processes passings/reads send by the ChronoTrack Simple Client software

  • Uses RACEMAPs API token to forward data to RACEMAP

How to get an API token?

Authentication

How to use the forwarder?

  1. Get the timing API token for your RACEMAP account, contact [email protected].

  2. Download the forwarder to the computer on which the ChronoTrack timing software is running.

  3. Run the forwarder with the RACEMAP_API_TOKEN token as an environment variable.

  4. Configure your ChronoTrack timing software to send data to the forwarder.

  5. The forwarder will send your data to RACEMAP. 

set RACEMAP_API_TOKEN=[APItoken]
.\chronotrack-to-racemap-forwarder.exe

How to operate the forwarder?

Basic

Download the latest binary for windows or for linux and run it with below commands.

Download the forwarder here: chronotrack-to-racemap-forwarder-win-x64-v1.0.0.exe

  • Press Windows Key

  • Press CMD + Return to open the command line window.

  • Navigate to the download folder of the forwarder.

  • Set your API token. Replace [APItoken] with the unique API token of your RACEMAP account.

  • start the forwarder from here: chronotrack-to-racemap-forwarder.exe + Return.

set RACEMAP_API_TOKEN=[APItoken]
.\chronotrack-to-racemap-forwarder.exe

  • Watch the shell output. Looking for the line: API Token is valid

  • The Shell window shows further log messages. Successful transmissions of passings/reads are shown like below.

Successful transmission of 4 reads for a reader located at the start of a race.

Expert

Go to github.com/chronotrack-to-racemap-forwarder and start developing.

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