Send SMS to RaceCapture?

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JJLudemann
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Send SMS to RaceCapture?

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We used the RaceCapture Pro 2 for a 6-hour endurance race at Buriram International Circuit in Thailand over the weekend. The drivers loved the predictive lap time screen and the Samsung Galaxy S5 ran for the whole 6 hours with enough battery left over for a call home.

Unfortunately, one of our drivers made a mistake due to not understanding that state of the track: pit lane exit closed, safety car out, heavy rain... Resulting in a 150 lap penalty, obviously ruining our race.

So I'd like to know if there's a way to send an SMS message to the RaceCapture through the GSM module so I can use that to light up big yellow or red lights on the dash or override the smartphone display with a yellow or red background. Is the RaceCapture GSM transmit only, or can it receive too? Generally speaking I'd like to have the pit wall worker be able to push a button on some contraption that will transmit something across the GSM network and cause the RaceCapture Pro to take some action. Is this possible?

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Post by rdoherty »

Right now it's not possible to send data to RCP, but it something we really want to build in the future! We'd probably start with something simple where someone in the pits could turn on/off a warning light on the tablet, then add more complex behaviors later.

Glad to hear you guys like RCP!
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Post by Mash »

Incoming messages from the app (that takes it from Podium) accessible from Lua...

wcorredor
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Any progress on sending messages from Podium to RCP?

Post by wcorredor »

Any progress on making this functionality available? It would be very helpful.

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Post by brentp »

Sending notifications to the driver via Podium is on our feature list. Keep an eye on the future software updates!
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Post by onthebeach7350 »

Hi Brent,

Any update on this interesting feature ?

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Post by brentp »

Yep, we're researching the best way to do it. We'll have some information on it very soon!
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SMS or any kind of message to driver

Post by wcorredor »

This would be an incredible feature which would be great for racing.

Any news on it?

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Post by brentp »

Yes indeed!

We have a teaser of some upcoming features, see the "Pit to Car Alerts" in the PodiumConnect announcement.
https://www.autosportlabs.com/live-stre ... dium/?pp=1


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We're really excited to make this available on PodiumConnect, and all RaceCapture systems.
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Post by wcorredor »

Great!!
And the question all software engineers hate?
Date? :)

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Post by wcorredor »

Is the feature already available in the new beta firmware?
How does one send a message?

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Post by brentp »

Hi,

This feature is scheduled for the *next* release.

You can see everything that was done in the beta release by reading the changelog at the bottom of the blog post here:
https://www.autosportlabs.com/racecaptu ... available/

Thanks!
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Post by wcorredor »

Are you referring to 2.13 or 2.14?

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Post by brentp »

The beta we just released is 2.13.0. Alerts are scheduled for 2.14.0.

Hope that helps!
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