DiveRecorder - Equipment Required
This page contains some suggested lists of equipment and some layout diagrams to help clarify what might be needed for differing types of Meet. Note that there is room for a lot of flexibility depending on your ambitions. My only suggestion is that you try walking before running!
Minor Meet
For a small, informal competition, all you need is a single laptop. However, if you also have a half-set of wireless keypads available it is then possible for a single person to do both the announcing and recording! As an example, look at this photo of my recording table together with a list of the equipment used for one of our monthly develoment competitions.
The following diagram shows a similar layout with the addition of a printer.
Normal Meet
This would be any Meet in which only one event is running at a time. This covers every level from Club to International. For these Meets you should have a second recorder working with the hard copy dive sheets so that you can guarantee that you are able to survive a computer crash or extended power cut. Here is a photo of a recording table and the following is a recommended list of the equipment you will require:
- Laptop for DiveRecorder
- Laptop for TickerTape from which the manual recorder can read and check the awards. (optional)
- Laptop to control any ScoreBoard (details will depend upon scoreboard type)
- Wireless Router (such as any 'consumer' broadband or ADSL wireless routers)
- Laser Printer
- Set of wireless keypads (if available)
The following diagram shows the 'recording' part of such a Meet.
Complex Meet
DiveRecorder may be used at Meets at which 2 or more events run concurrently. However, this will require a minimum of two laptops per concurrent event one for DiveRecorder and one for the ScoreBoard. In these cases, while not necessary, it is also a good idea to have one laptop to use as a dedicated database server. Here is a recommended equipment list for such Meets and here is a photo of a recording table.
For each concurrent event:- Laptop for DiveRecorder
- Laptop for ScoreBoard
- Laptop for TickerTape (optional)
- JPad/MTE base station and part set of JPads/MTEs (if available)
- Data projector plus screen or suitable surface for projected image
- Laptop to be used as database server
- Wireless Router
- Laser Printer
The following diagram shows most of the possibilities. If running concurrent events you will need at least an extra laptop per event
Electronic Scoreboards - Swiss Timing (Omega)
DiveRecorder can drive Swiss Timing (Omega) electronic scoreboards by connecting to the Swiss Timing computer which is running Galactica and DR2Omega. The following digram shows a Laptop running DiveRecorder and the Galactica computer running DR2Omega which are both on the same LAN.
Electronic Scoreboards - General
DiveRecorder can drive matrix scoreboards by the simple expedient of running ScoreBoard on the computer provided by the scoreboard supplier, and scaling the image to fit.