The new Online Rowing system

From RowPro 2.2 onwards, RowPro has a  new Online Rowing system that completely replaces the Internet Racing system used from RowPro 1.7 to RowPro 2.0.

What's changed:

The main changes are as follows:

Name change

The old system was called Internet Racing, and the new system is called Online Rowing.  This reflects the fact that most people use it to row with each other online, not race with each other.

Compatibility with e-Row

The new system is not compatible with the older Concept2 e-Row software or with earlier versions of RowPro, because fundamental changes have been made to greatly improve and extend the accuracy, reliability and capability of the system.

PM3 and PM4 display

The new system uses the bottom half of the PM3 and PM4 display screen to show the relative positions of the lead boat and the boat directly ahead of and behind your boat while you row, and their results at the end of the row.  This is similar to the 'race display' shown on the PM3 and PM4 at large Indoor Rowing Championship races.

Session Chat

There is now a built-in Session Chat panel in the Check-In and Results screens that automatically sends the Chat to every other person in your session.  This means the Chat window no longer gets in the way on top of the other screens, and also it's no longer necessary to select others before chatting.

Check-In and Start screen

The Check-In screen and the Start screen are now combined into a single Check-In and Start screen.  There are new icons to show people's status, and a built-in Chat panel.

Session Results screen

There is a new Session Results screen that looks just like the Check-In and Start screen but shows everyone's status and results after the session is rowed, again with a built-in Session Chat panel.

Result posting

Each participant's results are now posted as soon as they finish.  For longer sessions this means partial results are available as people finish.

Precision rowing

The new Online Rowing system is around 30 times more precise than the old system.  This means each participant sees the boats in the same position as every other participant, plus or minus the length of a bow flag.  This is a major technical breakthrough, and was one of the prime reasons for developing the new Online Rowing system.  The Online Rowing system is now effectively as precise as the Venue Racing systems used at National and World Championships, only it achieves this precision not just across the room, but across the entire planet.

Reliability

Some entrenched problems in the old system are now gone, in particular start issues, boat position discrepancies, and missing results.

New server

There's an entirely new Online Rowing Server in the new system.

New core in RowPro

There's an entirely new Online Rowing core in RowPro.

Different ports

The new system uses ports differently.  The old system used TCP Port 80 for Oarbits and for some parts of Internet Racing, and used TCP Port 9100 for other parts of Internet Racing.

The new system uses TCP Port 80 for Oarbits, and UDP Port 9300 for Online Rowing.

Multi-erg

From version 3.0 the new system supports 1x, 2x, 4x and 8x boats online, one boat per RowPro PC.

 

 

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