Pit to car radio app available - work in progress

Just pushed up version 1.9.6 - found a nasty bug in the way I was calculating the race session length (it was actually using the length of the 'grid walk' phase). This broke some of the fuel use tracking

 

And so are you.

Tnx.

 

I like this app and I don't usually bother with these things. Particularly like the calm and succinct comments which is a refreshing change from the usual "Yeeeehaaaaaw, awesome dude!" type of thing.

Just hoping I don't get the dreaded "Fernando is faster than you" message

Thanks for your continued hard work and for sharing this with us.

 

A big improvement of this app will be with a voice recognition ... I'me dying to be able to respond with something like :

"Leave me alone, I know what I'm doing!"

 

Or we get a comment like"You've wasted that lap by cutting a corner, calm down and concentrate"

 

Or "You're locking your front wheels, adjust brake bias please"

 

I can add a 'you wasted that lap...' message easy enough.

I've actually been wiring up voice recognition. I've got it to the point where you hold down a button on your steering wheel and it listens on the default audio input device (mic). This is processed by the ms speech recognition library, which works well.

Next step is to link the recognised speech to events.

All this requires the app to run as a windows 'forms' app rather than a command window so it's a lot of faffing

 

I have had quite a lot of app breaks recently.
Starting off good, but towards the end of the race I suddenly don't get any notifications anymore.
And when I quit R3E I have got an error message "System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException. The Index was outside the interval"

 

I'm looking into that Heppsan. It's quite hard to debug but I'll find it. Is it always the same error? Does is happen in the last 5 minutes of the race?

 

I've updated to 1.9.7 now - I did find a couple of issues where the 'push now' event wasn't handling arrays of data correctly (most likely cause of the bug), and I added some more range checking to the gap event

 

Yes always the same error, and I think it's in the 5-10 minutes left of the race.
Might be more common in the MP races, had several SP races today without any issues.

Got a "Push, you can take him" on Nürbugring in DTM 2014 when I was in the lead.
Might have been a delay thingy, I had taken the lead when passing the pits 3-4 turns earlier.

 

Yeah, looking at the code I've put a 20 second delay for the 'push now' messages. This is clearly daft so I'll take it out. I'm not going to increment the version number for this but I'll replace 1.9.7 with another cut

 

I had a very tiny little one:

When it announce the gap increase/decrease from front/back car : If you overtake or being overtaked it may not be aware of it.

For example: I was 2nd @2" from the 1st. The 3rd overtake me and at the same time I had the message: (approx) "the gap between front drop to 0.1sec. Come on you can take it!"

Maybe could you add some delay between this kind of message and one from the spotter. If there's a spotter message ("hold your line", etc ), there's no point for a gap message right after.

 

Just remembered one more thing.
When exiting the pits I always get the "car behind you, be careful when joining him on track" (or something like that)
But I get this even if no car approaching on the track, only cars thats near are behind me in the pits.

Is it possible to set this only to fast approaching cars on the finishing straight?

 

Will have a look Heppsan. That bug fix is now uploaded

 

Little question about the tire temperature messages:
How do you determinate that temperature are good ?

It seems that the range is pretty wide, I have a "tire temperature are looking good" from 80° to 100°
BTW, best tire temperature is not the same on all cars. for example GTR2 run best around 95° and when WTCC are more around 85° for what I experimented.

 

That's a good point. Unfortunately I can't know what car the player is driving - the information isn't in the shared memory block. Because of this I've just had to guess what "good" and "hot" tyre temps might be. When the player's car is added to the memory block I'll be able to have a set of parameters per car for things like tyre temps

 

Had the same yesterday after tying your app for the 1st time. Btw it's geat
I was in 5th postition 0.5s behind the guy in front of me. 3rd Position was 10 seconds ahead. I overtook the guy in front of me and a few seconds later the engineer said "Your gap has increased".

 

Hello Mr. Belowski I saw you working on a new app.
I found the old app really great.
I personally do not understand the new app and find the installation too complicated.
Also I think it's good when the spotter tells me everything and I have to press any buttons.
I had no problems with the spotter in the first App.
Now you have to press buttons in the new app.
Work on the old app now you no longer?
I find that a pity or is it no longer possible to improve the old app further for technical reasons?
Also, I find it a pity that only Win64Bit users can use the new app. There are still enough 32bit users. Or is that not possible Mr. Belowski.?

 

The old app will be replaced with the new app. The new app will (when it's ready) work in exactly the same way as the old app so you won't lose anything - the new additions are all optional functionality. At least, that's the idea. If you *want* to talk to your crew chief and ask him something, you can. But you don't have to - he'll still tell you stuff just like in the old app.

The new app won't (when I sort it all out) require any additional installation tasks - just run the .exe and click the "Start application" button. I'll keep you guys informed.

I'll have it all working soon