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  • SkyTrak PC - Beta

    Ok guys, here it is. Before you go crazy installing, please take a moment to read through all the information below – it’s important. This is essentially the same release as iOS v2.0, so I’ll post those release notes at the bottom. As with the recent WGT Beta, please don’t contact SkyGolf support during this short beta period.


    PC NOTES
    • You’ll see in the release notes that the most critical addition here is license requirements. This means that certain features in the software will only be available if you have the Game Improvement Subscription Package. Let me explain how this works. Your SkyTrak unit becomes the “key” to unlock the features in the software. First you will need to make sure your unit is registered – if you haven’t yet, you can do this through the app in the Profile>ABOUT screen. Once registered, the unit will pull your subscription license down from the cloud and store it in the unit. So think of it this way…to get the license onto the unit, you’ll need to be connected to the unit and the internet at the same time, just as with device registration (my preference is via USB below…).
    • Every time you connect your unit, it will go through a ‘License Check” first. This is per the above.
    • The unit can now be connected to your PC via either Direct mode, Network Mode, or just by USB (quite a bit easier than network mode to have connection + internet!). To connect via USB, connect the USB cable to the unit and PC first, THEN turn the unit on.
    • During beta, we are working behind the scenes to allow for screen maximization and custom sizing, so for now I have limited the window to 1024x768 as I know many of you are using projectors. You can change your screen resolution if you want it to fill the whole screen, but this will be a short beta period and I just want to get it in your hands. Just understand that window sizing is coming.
    • This is a straight copy of the iOS app, so think of using your mouse like you would your finger (ie to scroll down in the session history, click and drag up). We’ll be adding more PC-intuitive controls.
    • When you first connect your unit to this app, the unit will be upgraded to the new 1.35 firmware. You will see the unit reboot itself.
    • The download is a zip file. Extract it and just run SkyTrak.exe from the unzipped folder for now.
    • Again, don’t contact SkyGolf customer support during beta. Let me help you, and you’re pretty darn good at helping each other too.


    V2.0 RELEASE NOTES
    • Added subscription/license requirements for Subscription Package features and Simulation partners
    • Resolved Data Sync issues
    • Added SkyTrak Hardware Battery Indicator
    • Added “+/-“ fine-tune adjustments for Closest to Pin distance adjustment
    • Added ability to save Session Settings (remains on last used)
    • Average distance on the range is now for current club only
    • Fixed Side Spin Average bug in Session History
    • Added ABOUT screen in Profile – Displays software version, firmware version, and registration information (for now, this will only serve as a register device button)
    • Users are automatically upgraded to hardware firmware version 1.35 for future putting functionality
    • Various bug fixes/backend/server communications/licensing work


    PC REQUIREMENTS
    • Windows 7 or 8 (have not tested with prior versions or Windows 10)
    • 32-Bit or 64-Bit
    • Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.0GHz
    • 2GB RAM


    DOWNLOAD LINK


  • I had trouble getting the Skytrak to connect to the PC (win7x64) via usb and wifi. In direct mode via wifi, the wifi card would connect to the skytrak hotspot. But the skytrak software would never show connected. Then when I tried via usb cable, it was the same result; it would just hang at the connection screen.

    I then installed everything on a VMWare winxp virtual machine, and it worked.

    Went back to the native OS (win7) and eventually did something by accident that allowed the skytrak to connect. My pc is on a wired windows domain network. When I went into windows network connections and disabled the NIC associated with the wired windows domain network, the skytrak almost immediately connected via usb. I can then connect to my network wifi router and have internet access while connected to the skytrak via usb cable. Just wondering, is there a network setting or security setting that would break functionality if you are on a wired domain network? Thanks and sorry if this has already been asked/answered. I've only been on this forum for a week and while I've read quite a few posts it's not possible to review everything.

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    • My goal is to minimize shot display delay. Can you guys who understand how the images are passed and processed, please rank the following? Again, the goal is purely to minimize shot delay and I don't care about frame rate, 4K, etc. just minimizing the delay.
      A) processor (i7 6700, 4 core vs 6 core, etc)
      B) processor RAM (8 GB vs 16 GB...)
      C) video card (GTX 970 vs 980Ti vs AMD...)
      D) Hard drive (SSD vs HDD)
      Last edited by Godfather; 01-29-2016, 09:19 PM.

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      • SkyTrak processing takes place upstream, ie. in the processsor so stands to reason that the faster the processor, the less delay. 16 GB RAM is overkill according to most experts but these days it's cheap enough to go for that as well.
        Storage drives don't really play a part once the program has loaded and you have enough RAM.
        Video has practically nothing to do with the deay - it just kicks out the final result.

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        • I'm right at 3 seconds with a 4790K @ 4.0, 8GB, GTX970, SSD. I agree that the processor should be the biggest contributor to this. GC2 is right around 1.3s for comparison purposes (based on youtube clips).

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          • Originally posted by TorchRedRob View Post
            I'm right at 3 seconds with a 4790K @ 4.0, 8GB, GTX970, SSD. I agree that the processor should be the biggest contributor to this. GC2 is right around 1.3s for comparison purposes (based on youtube clips).
            Good info. Thanks. I also *think* processor is the most important, but I'm hoping for more definitive information from Skytrak or someone that can give more specifics.

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            • aja
              aja commented
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              The info is out there in other posts. Check out the topics in the SkyTrak section. Processor is most important that's why everyone's been asking what do you connect to? what do you run it on?... how's the delay?
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