Using the TackTracker Cloud
You'll want to visit tacktracker.com/cloud for many reasons:
- Watch online races published by you or others
- Watch your Live Trackers in the web player
- Manage your home page
- Manage who can watch your races
- Change your online profile
- Purchase publish credits
- Manage your live tracking devices
Watch online races published by you or others
There are two ways races get published to the cloud:
- Publish to a Regatta: visit tacktracker.com/cloud/regattas
- Publish to a Home Page: visit tacktracker.com/cloud/home
Typically Regattas are published by clubs and associations - whilst home pages are published by individuals or anyone who wishes to publish a race to their account. Races are published using the TackTracker applications downloaded from the download page. A Race Editor license is also needed
To watch a race, click the button in the race list. Races are played in the TackTracker Web player in the main part of the window. If you don't see the player, it may be that you need to install the latest Silverlight plugin from Microsoft, or your browser does not support Silverlight.
Silverlight is not supported on mobile browsers such as Safari on the iPhone or iPad. But there is a great alternative: download the free TackTracker Player for iPhone and iPad from the Apple App Store.
TackTracker lets you navigate the home pages in two ways:
- Visit the latest races page at tacktracker.com/cloud/home/public. This is the default page in the Home Pages tab and shows the most recently published races in chronological order.
- Visit a friends home page. Home pages each have the url: tacktracker.com/cloud/home/username. You can get there by typing the username of the user you wish to visit in the Find user: search box.
A home page presents races published by the owner of the page. The owner has the option of publishing races publically for anyone to view, or privately to his or her list of friends. If you are a friend, you must login to your account to see the private races.
Your first step is to create yourself an account on the cloud. Do this at tacktracker.com/cloud/auth/register.
Manage your home page
To manage your home page, you first need to Login to your TackTracker Cloud account. Once logged in, you can visit your home page and edit or delete your races and manage your list of friends.
When you edit a race, you can change:
- The race name and description. Use the description to provide some comments about the race to the viewer.
- The Locked status. A Locked race cannot have new tracks added to it. If unlocked, the race is available for people to upload matching tracks to the race.
- The Friends Only status. If Friends Only is checked, only people you have listed as friends can view the race.
Watch your Live Trackers
If you have live trackers and login to the TackTracker Cloud, you will see an additional Trackers tab appear:
On this page your live trackers will be listed along with the current status of each tracker. If any of your trackers is currently active, you can click on it to see the trackers current location on the map. If any other TackTracker trackers are in the vicinity that you have access to, you will see their location and tracks too. You will have access to any tracks publically recorded or recorded "friends only" when you are a nominated friend.
Manage who can watch your races
We've seen above how you can specify that a race is visible only to your nominated list of friends. To manage your list of friends, click the button in the home page header. This will expose your list of friends. You can delete entries from this list, or add a friend by typing the friends TackTracker username in the "Find user" search box above. The add friends button will add the specified user to your list.
Change your online profile
Click the Setup icon at the top right of the cloud window to go to your setup page. This page has three tabs:
- Edit Profile
- Use this tab to customise your TackTracker profile, including your 40x40 thumbnail picture and a public description or comment.
- Publish Credits
- Publish Credits are needed to publish races to the cloud. You can check your credit balance here and purchase more credits if needed.
- Live Tracking Devices
- If you have live tracking devices for use with TackTracker, you can add them here.
There are three sections to this page:
- The Live Trackers table is used to register and show the status of each of your live trackers.
- The Live Race Schedule is used to allocate trackers to races in which the are to be used. You can schedule a tracker to any race you have access to - you don't need to have published the race yourself.
- Finally a Tracking Rights section is used to view and purchase the Tracking Rights you need to connect your tracker to the TackTracker Cloud.