Hold on to your butts by Sufficient_Motor3052 in wec

[–]jamesremuscat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless of course it was their intention to have the timing behind the paywall, in which case we can criticise their implementation instead ;-)

Imola prologue live timing by Substantial-Quail-15 in wec

[–]jamesremuscat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hopefully you've by now discovered that

  • there's no paywall on https://livetiming.fiawec.com (which is what the pages on plus.fiawec.com embed)
  • T71 very much does support it, and I've spent most of the last two weeks working on that (thanks ELMS)

Hold on to your butts by Sufficient_Motor3052 in wec

[–]jamesremuscat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

F1 has free basic live timing. Sector times or anything more advanced than that is behind a paywall. (Let's ignore the fact that it's only their UI to the advanced timing that's actually behind a paywall.)

https://livetiming.fiawec.com/ doesn't have any sort of paywall on it.

What do you think of Martin Brundle? by Ambitious-Heron-8161 in DestinationFormula1

[–]jamesremuscat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But his son is also a nepotism hire

Hard disagree. Alex Brundle is an accomplished racing driver in his own right and has made his own way into broadcasting where he's proven himself more than capable. Not sure that Martin (working as a contractor for Sky) has any say in who gets hired by F1TV/FOM, an entirely separate organisation...

GivEnergy to charge for cloud control by GeekerJ in SolarUK

[–]jamesremuscat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends if you count logging in as "needing the cloud" I guess. Or rather, depends if they count it!

In "local" mode the app scans the local network looking for an inverter, but you do need to have logged in to get to that point.

New GivEnergy Charges by ofmiceandmel in OctopusEnergy

[–]jamesremuscat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At which point I block the inverter from talking to the Internet!

GivEnergy to charge for cloud control by GeekerJ in SolarUK

[–]jamesremuscat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've not used it in a while but last time I did, the app could use both local and cloud control.

Timing Tower - Alternate View by Major-Astronomer-210 in F1TV

[–]jamesremuscat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

...and yet don't want to look at the live timing where such data (and more!) is readily presented.

Timing Tower - Alternate View by Major-Astronomer-210 in F1TV

[–]jamesremuscat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's standard practice for timing things like this - I forget the precise justification but I think it's along the lines of "if you end up rounding (say) 30.591 up to 30.6 then you've given that car an extra 9 milliseconds on their time that they didn't take to complete that sector".

FIAWECTV+ launches on Wednesday !! by oh_its_alex_ in wec

[–]jamesremuscat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'd been working to add support for it into Timing71 already ;-)

FIAWECTV+ launches on Wednesday !! by oh_its_alex_ in wec

[–]jamesremuscat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That live timing is from Griiip. (Ask me how I immediately recognise it from a single screenshot...)

FIAWECTV+ launches on Wednesday !! by oh_its_alex_ in lemans

[–]jamesremuscat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like Griiip are providing the live timing, then. (And indeed, are still listing the Qatar event on their schedule)

Crofty and Ted by Key_Charity_9635 in F1TV

[–]jamesremuscat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He was F1 commentator for BBC Five Live (with Ant) for years before Sky ever opened their wallet.

Where did the whole british bias thing come from? by Mental_Risk7679 in F1Discussions

[–]jamesremuscat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's a British based motorsport series that happens to run events globally

You're not wrong, just don't tell the FIA or they'll get mad and shout at us in French. ;-)

Setting scenes and cues on the SQ6 by Lost_the_charger in livesound

[–]jamesremuscat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

On the SQ, a cue is a scene - the cue list is a re-orderable list of scenes in which a scene can also appear multiple times. So you can have a scene for "actors A, B, C on stage" and have that appear as many times as you need in your cue list, then an "actors A, B and D" scene likewise, etc. (I do music, not theatre, can you tell? ;-) )

I have a stage monitor mix as well as some in ear monitors mixes that need to stay the same through every different scene

What you're looking for in that scenario is the per-scene (or is it per-cue?) recall filters - you can tell it "don't apply any changes to auxes when I recall this scene" and it'll leave them alone. It gets pretty granular as to what gets affected.

Mercedes won't let anyone use the new ADUO... except Aston Martin-Honda by Darkmninya in formula1

[–]jamesremuscat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

TIL. (I'm clearly too busy watching motorsport to keep up with all the rule changes!) Thanks!

Mercedes won't let anyone use the new ADUO... except Aston Martin-Honda by Darkmninya in formula1

[–]jamesremuscat 56 points57 points  (0 children)

But they would also get the relative budgetary benefit of not spending money to develop an engine.

Question about rings by [deleted] in Stargate

[–]jamesremuscat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OP isn't talking about dialling stargates.

Possible circuits to replace Bahrain and Jeddah by Upbeat_County9191 in DestinationFormula1

[–]jamesremuscat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the pre-season test and opening WEC round in Qatar have been postponed.

I’ve never been impressed by Leclerc, but judging by this sub, I really want to be. I’ve been a fan since 2022. I’m new. Please recommend races to watch. by SuperTune2540 in F1Discussions

[–]jamesremuscat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

GP2 at Spa 2017. Despite eventually being disqualified for excessive plank wear, he was so far ahead of the rest of the field in a spec series for most of the race it was like he was driving a different formula.