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Printing at your event with meshO Manager: from one printer to a carnival

Splits for the runner, a label for the results board, a sheet of results for the prize table. This guide sets up printing in meshO Manager step by step. It starts with the setup most events need, one printer plugged into the server, and builds up to carnivals with several download lanes, a rego desk, a label printer of its own and radio download stations, on Windows, on a Mac, or on both at once.

Software

Using the meshO Manager API: a practical guide with examples

Everything meshO Manager does on screen, it does through its own web API: the operator’s console, the rego desk, the results screens and the commentary feed all read and write the same endpoints. You can use them too. Scripts, screens of your own and whole apps can be built on them. This guide walks through the API with working examples in curl, Python and JavaScript, from reading results and scoring your own competitions to building an event, feeding in punches and listening for live changes.

Safety

Is everyone back? Radio controls and safety at orienteering events

Every event ends with one question that has to be answered before anyone packs up: is everyone back? Radio controls let event teams answer it at any moment of the day, with a live view of who is still out on the course and where each competitor was last seen. Here is how, and everywhere meshO Manager puts that picture in front of the people responsible.

Event technology

Radio controls won’t flatten your SIAC

Many organisers limit radio controls to protect competitors’ SIAC batteries. We worked out what turning on “Send last record” really costs. It’s about 0.2% of a SIAC’s battery life where radios are listening, about 1% at worst, and nothing at all for the controls.