In this section we present 3 powerful tools

• Setting a task with no internet connection while you are on takeoff
• Setup a 2-way SMS gateway to automate retrieve and check in of pilots.
• Automate your scoring (for pg/hg) with FS and publishing of results online.

Setup a task with no internet connection while you are on takeoff

When you click on the red button to send the SMS, you will be redirected to the default SMS app of your phone. The phone number will be already be filled in, and the content of the SMS message will be copied to the clipboard. You will need to manually paste it into the message and send the SMS. The cost of the SMS is a normal international SMS.

Setup a 2-way SMS gateway to automate retrieve

You can receive all SMS right into the web interface, send back SMS to pilots easily and automate the report back process. You will need an android phone dedicated just to this task. This is the phone number that pilots will send their SMS to.

• Start by installing the SMSsync app from here and configure it so that it forwards all incoming SMS to LiveTrack24 server.
• Open Settings-> General. Select “Enter Unique ID” and fill in your EventCode.
• You don’t need to enter a name to identify the device nor an alert phone number.
• Disable SMS delivery report.
• Settings-> Messages: Enable “Get Reply from Server” Leave the Reply messages disabled.

Automate your scoring (for pg/hg) with FS and publishing of results online.

Those instructions will help you to automate the download of KML/IGC live tracks to your local FS folder so that you can use FS to score and provide provisional LIVE results & final OFFICIAL result.

• STEP 1) Get fs_automate.zip and uncompress it on your task folder.
  All files of the zip file should be in the same folder with the kml trackslogs and FS template files, - not in a subfolder-
  
  
• STEP 2) Run the get_task_kml_from_livetrack24.vbs
  The first time you run it, you will be asked for taskID and taskPassword.
  The taskID can be found easily from the url of the task:
  For example Task http://www.livetrack24.com/tasks/1234 has TaskID of 1234
  The Task Password is the one you set on the task edit page. If you have not provided one a random password has already been created for you.
  
  
• STEP 3) if TasKID and Task Password are correct, the KML are now downloaded on your FS folder and are ready to be scored!
  
  
• STEP 4) You can run the get_task_kml_from_livetrack24.vbs script as many times as you want to get the current livetracks. Each time you will be presented with a dialog to either get the Live Tracks or re-enter the task info. If you want to avoid this dialog or want to create an automated download process, you can execute the batch file get_task.bat that is automatically created after the first run.
  
  

• STEP 1) Use the provided task_result_LiveTrack24_vXXX.tkr.xls and comp_result_LiveTrack24_v.XXX.cpr.xls as templates to produce the task and/or competition results
• STEP 2) Run the put_task_results_to_livetrack24.vbs
  The first time you run it, you will be asked for taskID and taskPassword.
  The taskID can be found easily from the url of the task:
  For example Task http://www.livetrack24.com/tasks/1234 has TaskID of 1234
  The Task Password is the one you set on the task edit page. If you have not provided one a random password has already been created for you.
  
  
• STEP 3) if TasKID and Task Password are correct, the latest HTML file found in the folder will be uploaded and linked to the task online at LiveTrack24.com
  
  
• STEP 4) You can run the put_task_results_to_livetrack24.vbs script as many times as you want. Each time you will be presented with a dialog to either get the Live Tracks or re-enter the task info. If you want to avoid this dialog, you can execute the batch file put_task.bat that is automatically created after the first run. Each time the latest version of your scoring will be uploaded to the server.