Introducing the newest version of Sundial

[burkey_turkey]

i know there is that rule about no internet access, but if this program displays scores and matches and stuff, wouldnt it be a fantastic thing to have on the internet? for any parent or just a person with a specific interest in a certain team being able to have a program like this, (especially when coupled with a webcast like at VCU) people at home can get almost as into it as people at the event. one if the biggest problems with watching the webcast is you never know whos coming on soon, how your son's team is doing etc, but if this info were available online during the competition live that would be really great.

I'm not too knowledgeable in programming, but here's a small suggestion. Don't worry if it's entirely impossible.

Might there be a way to allow users of the system to hit a button right as they send out the ir pot from the pits to the field, and the program will adjust accordingly?

[aksimhal]

VCU is providing FIRST Teams with internet access this year. Is there any hope of a test run of sundial on either Friday/Saturday. As for the 4 points need, Team 1123 can try to man a booth, and provide a laptop, but we don't have the following items, though I think we can make a run to Best Buy (or something like that) in the morning for the router.

- Wireless router
- Knowledge of Apache/PHP/MySQL/BIND

If any one can help us at the VCU regional, that would be great. Please email me for my cell phone #. aksimhal AT gmail DOT com or visit Team 1123's Pit. [don't PM me, cause I may not be able to check it in time. thanks]

I'll try to check my email account from my cell phone as often a possible.

Even if we can only do Saturday, that would be great because it might get other people interested who might be able to have a full, all 3 day running version of sundial.

Thanks,

Anish

[65_Xero_Huskie]

Works on IE 5 (School computer)

BTW: I love how our team is
-Running 89435 minutes late -

[CardcaptorRLH85]

Ok this works perfectly in Firefox 2.0.0.2, and (ick) Internet Explorer 7 both maximized at 1280 x 1024 resolution. They also (quite importantly for me) work in Opera Mobile 8.6 on my Windows Mobile 5 PPC @ 320 x 240 resolution. However, Pocket Internet Explorer chokes on the code for selecting the event. I don't see any listed events on it. I must thank you for making it non-flash based though. Adobe is WAY behind on Flash releases on the PPC so I couldn't use this wonderful service last year.

[Pat Fairbank]

If there are any teams out there interested in hosting Sundial for the second week of regionals, please send me a PM.

Once again, in order to run Sundial, you need:
- Computer running Windows
- Wireless router
- Knowledge of Apache/PHP/MySQL/BIND
- At least one person to run the system full-time

The following second-week events are already covered:
Great Lakes Regional
L.A. Regional
Brazil Pilot

[Pat Fairbank]

If there are any teams out there interested in hosting Sundial for the third week of regionals, please send me a PM.

The following third-week events are already covered:
Boilermaker Regional
Silicon Valley Regional
UTC Connecticut Regional

[Pat Fairbank]

If there are any teams out there interested in hosting Sundial for the fourth or fifth week of regionals, please send me a PM.

The following fourth-week events are covered:
Buckeye Regional
San Diego Regional
Waterloo Regional

And the following fifth-week events are covered:
Davis Sacramento Regional
Greater Toronto Regional
West Michigan Regional

[Mike AA]

I like the concept of sundial and its options, but what I didn't like at boilermaker was that it was almost always off time . I tried to refresh my page which would sometimes do it but other times it would be off by an hour or more. Possibly the daylight savings bug?

-Mike

[Justin]

Just a thought....

The possibility of this is probably limited due to venue logistics but it would be cool if there was a way to open Sundial for a regional up to web cast viewers so you could then know when the teams you wanted to see were going to come up, etc.

-Justin

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Justin

Just a thought....

The possibility of this is probably limited due to venue logistics but it would be cool if there was a way to open Sundial for a regional up to web cast viewers so you could then know when the teams you wanted to see were going to come up, etc.

-Justin

I agree, if this was possible it would be GREAT for those of us getting our FIRST fix by watching webcasts.

[chris31]

Originally Posted by Justin

Just a thought....

The possibility of this is probably limited due to venue logistics but it would be cool if there was a way to open Sundial for a regional up to web cast viewers so you could then know when the teams you wanted to see were going to come up, etc.

-Justin

Do all the regionals have free wireless and dont mind you running a server? Thats the main issues.

[fluffy]

how do you access sundial at events?
i tried at Boilermaker with no avail

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Mike AA

I like the concept of sundial and its options, but what I didn't like at boilermaker was that it was almost always off time . I tried to refresh my page which would sometimes do it but other times it would be off by an hour or more. Possibly the daylight savings bug?

That's the only conclusion I could come to. The owner of the host computer and I spent a lot of time changing time zones, clock settings, and entered match times, and we could never get everything to add up. Some client computers reported the proper time of day but had the match times off by an hour with the field running an hour off in the other direction, other clients showed the time of day wrong and the match times correct and agreeing with the field delay, and at least one client showed the field running two hours slow.

We eventually gave up trying to make it work properly for everyone, and settled for making it work consistently (if differently) on a given computer.

[dpraedan]

If Sundial is up and running, when connected to the wireless network, you can either connect to http://sundial.first or http://192.168.1.2 (neither will work now). They technically take you to the same place, but the second is a safe bet, I know when I was running Sundial at SVR, I had some minor problems getting DNS working, so the first address did not work.

Also, the hour off problem is the DST bug, I had to move time backwards an hour on the host computer, which had not yet gotten the DST update. Other computers will show different times for matches and current time, but they will all still show the correct countdown timer.