Telemetry SecondMonitor (Timing & status App)

Thankyou, will investigate via test.

Winzarten, what is the endpoint name for car model? I dont see it in the swaggerpage and I can get the car class, but on my leaderboard I want car model for each driver like you did on the timing grid.

 

There should be a CarName in the data, that's what should also shown on the timing grid.

 

I worked it out, it was carName, and I had written CarName

 

Hello, I'm not able to get the app working with assetto corsa (CM).
I've tried everything I know such as opening the game before then opening the app, vice versa, while in race, etc.
I've clicked the install button during installation and enabled the plugin as well from the python app menu
I can see that "Assetto Corsa" connected when I open CM but it changes to "Not connected" when I start a race
I did get it to work couple of times just by starting restarting the game the app somehow but I think it was just miracle because right now whatever I do it just stays on Not connected.
Any help would be appriciated, Thank you!

 

I have a question about a sim its kind of and old one but one of the developer fot the sim is rFactor but the company that made the sim is The Sim Factory LLC and the name of the sim is ARCA SIM RACING X is there a way to use the rFactor plugin for this sim and if so where can I find the plugin at Thanks

 

I'm currently building a career app for AMS2, and trying to keep it as realistic as possible. I know SM shows real-time damage models, etc. It would be AMAZING if damages, incident, and accidents were logged too per individual driver in a single race, as JSON file. I don't know how feasible this is, but if the program already has the ability to "see" and display damages, etc., I imagine documentation isn't that far off, but I'm new to this... Thank you for your time and consideration of this feature. I look forward to hearing back in the future.

 

I am building a custom championship companion app for R3E and AMS2 myself.
Look into the shared memory block issued by the developer of the 2 games, as this is how SM also built his connectors, R3E has an online GitHub repo that JF updates which has all the shared memory block endpoints and nested properties.
Some things you may have to write your own database and logic for. And yes some things come through ready to go. You can obviously build events into your own ever growing career_mode.json which you could use to populate your career dashboard ...it doesn't have to fully agree with the game, you could introduce your own rules and penalties and points systems if it's not 100% lining up.
The AMS2 API is the Project Cars 2 shared memory API i think?

 

Damages is doable, and it can be added to Report.json the app creates after each session. The issue is that the damage can only be reported for the player, as that is the only driver that usually has detailed information in SharedData.

Incidents are generally not in the shared data, only incident points, and those are only in MP, and only for player (as it is easily abusable if you know the incident points of an opponent). The closest is impact data in rFactor 2 / LmU shared data. But afaik R3E or AMS 2 doens't have anything similar.

Whats the name of the executable? I can add it on the list of rFactor games in the next update... so, in theory, it should work then

Renaming the game executable to something the app recognizes as a rfactor title (rFactor.exe, AMS.exe...) should also work as a temporal workaround

 

A bigger update, after quite a while, for championships :-D
Enabling this setting, during creation, will enable full multiclass championshiop.

You get one overall championshis, with all classes + each class will get individual championships, including separate teams and manufacturers championships.

 

Hi, i`m using your nice App with rF2, but cant get working to have a column with "Gap to Leader". Isnt that possible?

 

I there a way for SecondMonitor to remember the first lap you drive on the leaderboards. Sometimes I set the fastest lap on my very first lap but Second Monitor just doesn't register it.

 

Hi Winzarten! Thanks for the nice app! Been using it for a long time! Now I'm running LMU and have the issue in Endurance Races, that after a Driver Swap the Car seems to be duplicated in the Leaderboard. Have been searching for any known issues or some sort, but couldn't find anything. Also tried reinstalling the app, but still the same. Any Ideas? Thanks a lot!

 

After the last update, SecondMonitor starts and a few seconds after it just disappears and is terminated.

Somehow Win11 turned on "Controlled folder access".. Turning it off did the job.

 

Possibly todays update helps with that. The issue is that I need to have a unique identifier for the driver to group the data through the session, for LmU it was the name. Which obviously doesn't work with drivers changes.
LmU now uses 'slotId' which is part of the LmU data, but tbh, I don't know if that stays the same during driver change.

Other than that, the newest update uses the LmU new shared memory model, so the rf2 plugin is no longer required. This also allows access to more data, i.e. the virtual energy is now available for all drivers, not just the player.

 

Probably a Windows Update broke it but this week I can't open SecondMonitor.

When I open nothing happens, when checking the task manager the process is open but with 0% CPU usage. In this case it is NOT "Controlled folder access", I checked...

I should add that I had version 9.38 which had been working fine until last week. Then with this problem I uninstalled and installed 9.39.

 

In %appdata%\SecondMonitor directory, there should be a log.txt file. Could you please upload it? I will have a look on what it is going on. Could be something wrong with the app.

 

I've attached the log.

Last week I decided to troubleshoot using Process Monitor and it led me into that log, it confirmed the idea that 9.38.4 did indeed work previously but then the same version stopped working. The plugins are loading successfully but then it never gets to the Connector loading phase.

While analysing Process Monitor, I decided to update .NET but didn't solve it, also I noticed Windows Defender doing some checking so I tried disabling it but nothing. The app keeps starting 3 threads and closing them a few seconds later.

 

Well well, since you had the project on Github I decided to open the project on Visual Studio and see if I could get any leads. I only use it sporadically so I had version 2022, it gave me some errors when loading the project so I updated to 2026 and surprise, SecondMonitor now works! Whatever was broken was fixed by the VisualStudio installation...

 

Unfortunately we're back to the same situation, yesterday night I did some laps and it wasn't working again.

I've done some experimenting today with the Visual Studio project and when debugging I can get the Connectors to load just fine. The official version never gets there just loads the plugins and that's it...

 

That's super weird, there is no exception in the log, the app just... stops doing anything.

So even uninstall, manually removing all remaining files from the install directory, and reinstalling it (possibly to a different location) doesn't help?

One final thing might be, after backup, removing the all the files from the %appdata%\SecondMonitor, and from the SecondMonitor directory in the Documents dir. These contains setting, track maps, etc... But they should be also used if you run the app from Visual Studio.. so I doubt something there is wrong.