Set up online controls

An online control sends each punch to OResults as the runner passes, so the live results show a split before the runner finishes.

Before you begin

• Courses uploaded to the event, as Upload maps and courses describes.
• Devices listed under Online controls in the account menu (the avatar at the top right; on a phone, Account in the menu) of the account that created the event. Get Blueboxes and Use a phone as an online control say how to get them there.
• An SI station at each online control. A Bluebox receives punches from SIAC cards directly; for older cards the station must be an SRR station.

Configure the SI stations

Configure each station with SPORTident Config+. Leave every setting this page does not name as your event needs it.

1. With the station connected, select Settings.

Caution

Without Auto send, the station still records punches on the runners’ cards but forwards none, while the device beside it keeps showing as online. Test each station with a card once the devices are linked, as Monitor online controls on race day describes.

2. Under Advanced settings, check Auto send, so an SRR station forwards each contact punch to the device.
3. For contactless punching, set Radio to Send last record, so SIAC cards send their punch record as well. If Radio is grayed out, set Operating mode to BC CN - Beacon Control first.
4. Select Apply to write the settings to the station.

Station codes

OResults reads what a punch is from the code of the station that recorded it:

Station	Code
Start	29
Check	30
Finish	any code below 29, by convention 1–10
Online control	31 or above

Select the online controls

1. Open the event from Events → Organizing, then select File upload under Manage.

2. Scroll to Controls in results. If it says Upload courses to select which controls will appear in the results., upload the courses first, as Upload maps and courses describes. If it says Fix courses to select online controls., none of your class names match a course. Match them as Match classes to courses on the Upload maps and courses page describes.

3. Select each code that has a station with a device beside it. The code fills blue and is saved at once, with no save button. A code is online on every course that visits it. You never select the finish: Finish (codes below 29) is always included.

   

4. Under Classes and courses, open Control sequences and check that the online controls print in bold.

Uploading the courses again keeps the selection for every code the new courses still contain.

Link the devices to the event

A punch counts for the event its device is linked to when the punch arrives. A device linked to no event has its punches refused, so link every device before the first start.

1. Open the event from Events → Organizing, then select Online controls under Manage, and select Add devices. The dialog lists the devices of the account that created the event, except those already on this event, under Bluebox, App and Own device.

   

Caution

A device whose row names another event and says it will move here is linked to that event. Adding it moves it to this event, and its punches stop reaching the other event. When the row says that event is running now, the move takes the device out of a race in progress: check with that event’s organizer first.

2. Check each device to link, or check Select all.
3. Select the button that counts them, such as Add 3 devices. If any of them is on another event, the dialog lists those once and Move and add 3 devices moves them all. A device from an event that is running now is listed first, under a warning that its punches from these devices will stop.

The linked devices appear in the Devices on this event table, and Remove on a row unlinks that device. While the event is running, or within 30 minutes of the device’s last punch, Remove asks first: the device’s punches are refused from the moment it is unlinked. Read the table on race day as Monitor online controls on race day describes.

Troubleshooting

Link the devices

Only the account that created the event can add its devices.: you are logged in with another account, and only the account that created the event can list and link its devices. Logging out and in again does not help. Log in with the account that created the event, or ask its holder to link the devices.

No devices available. Rent a Bluebox to get started.: the account that created the event has no devices. For rented Blueboxes, check When they arrive on the Get Blueboxes page. For a phone, create its device as Use a phone as an online control describes.

A device is missing from the Add devices dialog: it is already in the Devices on this event table, or it is on a different account. Check Online controls in the account menu of the account that created the event.

Select the online controls

No controls are marked as online in the healthcheck: no code is selected under Controls in results, so the results show no live splits. Select Select online controls on that line and select the codes.

The selection changed after a course upload: when the event’s courses carry control coordinates, a SportSoftware RadioControlList file sets the selection to exactly the codes it lists. Select the missing codes again, or add them to the list and upload it again.