DerbyNet

DerbyNet Changes From v3.0:

• New: Printable artifacts like drivers' licenses and award certificates. (Want to try your hand at designing a certificate, card, tag, or similar printable? Get in touch!)

• New: Support for points-based (place-based) racing! If your timer reports place but not times, or if you just prefer to run your event by considering place only, use place-based racing.

• Full support for ties in standings.

• When editing groups, support adding, deleting, re-ordering, and editing subgroups within each group.

• For import, support importing full .xls or .ods spreadsheets, not just CSV files.

• New: Confetti animation for awards presentation screen.

• Support multiple webcams (built-in phone cameras) for photo capture from check-in page. (Thanks, Carl Hunter!) Update photo capture library to work with latest browsers.

• Add "bulk" operations on Check-In page, for operating on groups, subgroups, or the whole field. Bulk operations including checking in, undoing check-ins, numbering cars, and marking eligible or ineligible for awards.

• On judging page, a laurel leaf marks speed award racers, in case that's a consideration when awarding design or other awards.

• Standings can be exported as CSV files.

• Track lanes can be masked off to be left idle.

• Dynamic font sizing for "Now Racing" kiosk page, so the whole table always fits on the page.

• Support alternative "Abbreviated single-run-per-car" scheduling.

• Improved performance of slideshow kiosk by prefetching both photos.

• Appearance tweaks throughout, including suppression of scrollbars for kiosk pages.

• MacDerbyReplay supports https: for communicating with server.

• Support for network speed testing from photo upload scripts. (Is your wifi working well?) Report results by voice if 'flite' speech synthesizer is installed.

• Miscellaneous bug fixes and improved internal testing.

DerbyNet Changes From v2.0:

• New, simplified set-up process

  • Unified Set-Up page lets you see just what you need to do.
  • Managed database creation means you only have to pick a name.
  • Support for alternative databases moved to "Advanced" dialog.

• Reorganized home page groups buttons into "Before", "During", and "After" sections.

• New award Judging page, including support for ad hoc awards

• Per-subgroup standings and awards are now supported, for "everyone races together" events.

• Scrolling support for Standings and Please Check In kiosk pages

• Check-In page photo improvements:

  • Both racer and car photos are supported
  • Photos can be uploaded from the check-in page

• Support for MiscJunk PDT timer (http://www.miscjunk.org/mj/pg_pdt.html)

DerbyNet Changes From v1.0:

• One-Click Install for Windows! A bespoke Uniform Server directory that can
  even be run from a flash drive.

• Improved kiosk management

  • Move kiosk management into a separate kiosk dashboard.
  • Individual kiosk displays can now be parameterized:
    • The "please check in" display can be restricted to selected groups or
      subgroups.
    • The "slideshow" display can be restricted to selected groups or subgroups.

• New features for working with awards:

  • "Import Awards" imports awards from comma-separated files
  • "Awards Editor" interactively edits, adds, deletes, and re-orders awards.
  • Drag-and-drop interface in Awards Editor for assigning award recipients.
  • "Present Awards" page directly controls awards presentation kiosk display for an awards ceremony.

• New photo features:

  • Added drag-and-drop photo uploading for photo editor pages.
  • Added "auto-crop" for photo capture, based on advanced face detection algorithms.

• Improved timer handling in derby-timer.jar:

  • Support for "The Judge" (thanks especially to help from Casper Bucl)
  • Support for older FastTrack timers
  • Experimental support for NewBold timers
  • Detect and recover from lost connection (tripping over a wire) between derby-timer.jar and timer.
  • Command line arguments work even when using the GUI.
  • Bug fix: now correctly finds serial port names for Linux.
  • Updated handling of timer malfunctions and unhealthy conditions.
  • derby-timer.jar incorporates both host and timer simulators, for
    testing/development.

• Support for hosting on a shared server:

  • Passed-in environment variable CONFIG_DIR overrides local configuration directory.
  • Presence of a settings.lock file disables changing database or photo directories.
  • Introduce "non-interactive" roles with limited privilege, to reduce risk of
    compromised passwords used for e.g. derby-timer.jar.

• Miscellaneous:

  • Fixed formatting for modal dialogs to allow scrolling when screen height
    or width is too small to display the whole dialog.
  • "Set-Up" modal for index page, to declutter the main race coordinator home page.
  • Update formatting and click handling for banner: actually center the title!
  • Rename internal ajax actions.
  • Clean up formatting for standings page selector.
  • Combined "Schedule + Race" button in scheduling dialog.
  • Better error messages for problems during database set-up.

• Debian binary package for Raspberry Pi-based derbynet server.