Racer Connect Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Racer Connect Live coverage has started for the NASA Eastern States Championships 2014! Racer Connect Live is your one stop shop for any and all live updates during the championship event this weekend in Road Atlanta, perfect for friends and family not able to make the trip to the track. http://live.racerconnect.com/index.php/nasa-eastern-states-championships-2014 Racer Connect Live proudly features: -Live Twitter feed -Videos -Picture Highlights -Image Gallery -Live Streaming (track and in-car) -Live Timing and Scoring -Live Schedule We will be live tweeting the entire event and encourage you to join in the conversation! Just use #nasachamps in your tweet to have it show up in our live Twitter feed. We will also be constantly uploading pictures and videos of the event including driver interviews! The Live Schedule is updated by race control throughout the event and is a perfect way for racers to stay on time during the event. Racer Connect is still new and under constant development. Please post any comments and feedback so we can make sure the site provides unparalleled content the users and fans want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrzastek Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Anyone else having trouble with the feed working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMC#11 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 I have not seen it work yet either and I have checked it a 1/2 dozen times over the last 2-days. I hope it gets fixed before the races tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CU Zcar Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Watched the feed from the qual race this afternoon from the #7 350Z, which dropped out a few laps in. However we did get to see the whole qualifying race from multiple GTS cars from the last session. Quality was iffy but not sure if that was the uplink or our download, as we're currently in Europe... cool nonetheless! Hope there is some commentary overlaid for the races! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrzastek Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Quality was iffy but not sure if that was the uplink or our download, as we're currently in Europe... cool nonetheless! Hope there is some commentary overlaid for the races! Same issue here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Tornado Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 and no feeds working this morning. hopefully they get some feeds working especially the incars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Tornado Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 and no feeds working this morning. hopefully they get some feeds working especially the incars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexaST-1 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 This disappointing. Really looking forward to watching the races this morning. Random spots from Griswolds car and that is it. I have Verizon FIOS so I know my speed is very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexaST-1 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 This disappointing. Really looking forward to watching the races this morning. Random spots from Griswolds car and that is it. I have Verizon FIOS so I know my speed is very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexaST-1 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 The live timing and scoring is great tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonSLW Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Yea, I've seen spotty feeds, at best. Watched Griswold for about 7 laps and then it dropped...of course right before a lead change. I am having other racers come to my house to watch most of the races later today. I'm trying to be optimistic that it we'll be able to watch, but I won't hold my breath. Very disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CU Zcar Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Sad that the last PT/Porsche race had no in-car footage, but at least the front straight + commentary was there most of the time. Thanks for the service and hopefully experience gained this year can lead to even better coverage next year. Pretty cool stuff for club racing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMC#11 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 I hate to be rude to racerconnect but this coverage was terrible. At the start of the AI/SI/CMC race there was no video at all and all I got was audio from Griswold's in-car for the first 7 laps. At least I could tell where he was on the course with his shifting and paired that with the live timing app on my phone. Then about 2 laps from the end of the race the camera for the front straight came on and was only about 30 seconds delayed. I do hope this gets corrected if the same live feed is used for future National events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racer Connect Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Sorry for just now responding to this thread, the weekend was pretty hectic at the track. Thank you for your feedback and we are sorry you had trouble viewing the live feeds. We were not under contract by NASA to air this event live. Racer Connect offered this as a FREE service for NASA, it's members, and it's fans. Our goal is to bring the club racing series live to everyone which is not being done anywhere else. This was our debut of this service and we were working with bandwidth limitations of both the track network and local cell tower networks. In general, most of the fans that have given us feedback have said the stream has been quite clear and smooth. All in-car streaming was done from iPhones. The quality of the in-car streams was limited to the cell network coverage around the track and as most of you know, cell data coverage is not the greatest at race tracks. We lowered the quality of the streams in an effort to have the stream be smooth at a reduced resolution and bit rate. In addition to network limitations, we also had hardware issues with the iPhones overheating due to very hot ambient temperatures and even hotter temperatures inside the race cars. The front straight stream was provided by an iPad in the tower. Despite being connected to Wi-Fi, we still struggled with network interruptions that caused the feed to randomly stop. We did our best to babysit the feed all weekend but we only had so many people so there were multiple interruptions. I hope this clears up some of the frustration that some of you had with the coverage. We plan to continue to grow and expand the coverage to provide live coverage of future club racing events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allin Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 I wasn't able to catch up with RC during the weekend to see what equipment you were doing this off of, but you may want to check into this type of hardware as it's a bit more robust and industrial. Hook up to a GoPro and you have some good feed, but will need to host external and then stream from their. If you want I could guide you, for a fee. http://www.teradek.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcazin Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Kudos to the racer connect team - if they had not tried, those of us that were not fortunate enough to be there or racing - got to see some live action and some in car live action. So, quit bitching : offer help : maybe with some assistance or positive constructive feedback, this will get better over time. As mentioned above, this was offered free, not sanctioned or sponsored by NASA : so, with that. Thanks for the effort - it was better than not having anything.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexaST-1 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 So, I will say thanks to Racer Connect for offering this free service for NASA. For the races I wanted to follow I had nothing except for the live timing that I said earlier was spot on and valuable. I will not criticize or express anything about the coverage. However, based on the end results I think maybe paying for quality and reliable coverage would have been a worth while move. I am not sure why free had to be the only option and you get what you pay for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Graber Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I thought it was cool. I had several people who were able to follow some of my races from afar, something that we couldn't do in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrzastek Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 However, based on the end results I think maybe paying for quality and reliable coverage would have been a worth while move. I am not sure why free had to be the only option and you get what you pay for. Especially when they have had Speedcast the last several years and it was great (and something NASA hasn't commented on, even with several forum and Facebook posts by several different people asking the same question)...... That being said, THANK YOU Racer Connect for doing this, it gave those of us at home at least some coverage of Nationals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob in VA Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 However, based on the end results I think maybe paying for quality and reliable coverage would have been a worth while move. I am not sure why free had to be the only option and you get what you pay for. Especially when they have had Speedcast the last several years and it was great (and something NASA hasn't commented on, even with several forum and Facebook posts by several different people asking the same question)...... That being said, THANK YOU Racer Connect for doing this, it gave those of us at home at least some coverage of Nationals! I think it was really cool of RC to try to bridge the coverage gap. That will be cool once all of the kinks are ironed out. I feel pretty cheated about not having speedcast at the event. The two National events at Mid-Ohio that I attended the coverage by SC was amazing. It really felt like we were doing something much cooler than a regional event. I really hope that Nasa will step up their game and get speedcast back for the VIR Nationals. It sucked telling friends and family that were used to SC, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bnjmn Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 It is my understanding that the cash received from the "speeding tickets" was actually not blown on beer and booze, as had been reported, but was instead put towards paying for proper media coverage for future NASA national events. Is this true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbrew8991 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I understand some of the challenges faced and appreciate the efforts to overcome them. :beer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vwzx7 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 FYI people.......The in car feeds didn't work as the cockpit temps became too high and shut down the phones! For Saturday's quali race in the #7 350z we chilled the phone in out cooler but that still only made it last for a few laps before shutting down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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