Comments on: Schlemetry

By: Ray Bryden

Ray Bryden — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:35:54 +0000

The Thud program has changed due to the restrictions on the latest build, and it was is being re-developed to be in compliance – I haven’t kept up with it to know what the status is – try searching the forums. If you’re speaking about vbox, just go to the iRacing forums and search for ‘vbox’ and it should be one of the first on the list – by Martine Wedlake.

By: tim

tim — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:20:37 +0000

where do you get this file at??

By: Ray Bryden

Ray Bryden — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:07:55 +0000

Chris – Hehe… I’d never considered the live vs saved aspect of telemetry. But at what point in time does it lose it’s telemetriness? What do you call the scrolling data charts where the data is a few seconds old – not necessarily saved, but not exactly live either? Quasi-telemetry? Data purgatory? lol

I need another beer!

By: Chris Hall

Chris Hall — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:10:41 +0000

Nice piece. I could sit down with a beer and debate the the definition of telemetry for a few hours with you . I’ve always had it drummed into me telemetry is live data feed, so by definition, a tacho is a form of telemetry. Once it gets saved somewhere (i.e data unit memory card), it’s no longer telemetry (which sounds so evocative) and becomes plain old (don’t I sound drab) data

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:58:53 +0000

i’d like to see iRacing export telemetry data in the same way they do with the rFactor Data Aquisition Plugin. that way, we would be able to explore that data in motec i2.

By: Stephane Turpin

Stephane Turpin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:45:59 +0000

great article, tku

Make me happy to see iRacing drivers love my tool

By: Don Caldweel

Don Caldweel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:06:14 +0000

Let me give you a testimonial for THUD, and THUD EDITOR.
Simple, Easy , AWESOME, I can’t tell you how much these 2 helped my racing… After a very short and easy install of both (you have to read the README, or you won’t understand what your LOOKNG at), which I’d like to tell you, get the THUD EDITOR, all you have to do is drag and drop…. No numb calculations… what and where you want it on the screen. I noticed a huge drop in my times. And if wondering its not an Arcadi spin. Look at like this, All real world racers have data loggers like MOTEC, and DRIFTBOX. This goes from the smallest to the largest F1 teams….. These and he Vbox is or MOTEC, and THUD really does what your Spotter should be doing to, letting you know your times and how to make up time, Heck you could even use it to save off a bit to save fuel…. Thanks for all your hard work and bringing these tools to us here at iRacing to better our selves and develope or abilities….

By: Ray Bryden

Ray Bryden — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:00:06 +0000

John – they extract data from a telemetry API that iRacing prepared for motion simulators. Do a forum search on”API” and you’ll find more information. PM Steve Myers if you’re interested in programming something using the API. It is available I guess but not exactly ‘published’.

By: John Bell

John Bell — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:19:28 +0000

Great article. Would be interesting to know how these programs interface with iRacing, i.e. how they are able to pull the data from it? Is this a complete hack or is there a published API?

By: Martynas Pranckevicius

Martynas Pranckevicius — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:58:20 +0000

I would like that iRacing would (at least) do some kind of telemetry like Gran Turismo 4 has. And that i could compare the data in my web browser on the main iRacing page.

I might send this proposal to iRacing crew and we will see what they will answer.

By: Ray Bryden

Ray Bryden — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:33:17 +0000

I want to acknowledge the great work by Stephane, Claude, and Martine, and also the screeenshot by James Dickens (http://members.iracing.com/iforum/message.jspa?messageID=512508#512508). Great work, guys!