Shot Delay

[ste1]

Bought a iPad Pro and now my delay is no more than 3 secs after I had a iPad 2 which was was 10-12 secs

[Thinman]

the shot is calculated in the skytrak. as you can imagine, since we have usb2 & 2.4ghz wifi...there is not the most robusto of processors in that box.

it decides if it just saw a shot (variable)
if yes, it calculates the shot (fixed)
the shot data is transferred to pc (variable)

calculating the shot is always going to take the same amount of time, so there are 2 major factors with variable speed. if someone got a 2 sec delay once, it was likely a perfect storm of the unit recognizing the shot immediately and zero delay in transfer to pc.

[YonexMan]

I've had anywhere from a 2 second delay and out to 4 or 5 seconds at times. What I've noticed though is that the delay as well as the number of missed shots was reduced significantly when I changed from using my laptop to an old gaming PC. The laptop is an i5, 4gig RAM and onboard video - connected to my network by the laptop internal WiFi .

The desktop PC is using an old Asus motherboard Q9500 chip (last of the series before the i-series cpu) with 8gig RAM and a GeForce GTX570 graphics card. PC is connected through wireless network adaptor. All other conditions like lighting etc in my practice area haven't changed. Yet, the PC on average gives me about a 3 second delay on shot tracing and maybe 1 missed shot in about an hour of practice. 2 missed shots in one practice session has been the worst it has got. While the laptop regularly gives me 1 missed shot in about 20 swings and most times once one shot is missed, I will then get 3 or 4 in a row. Shot delay is around 4 seconds or up to 5 seconds.

all golf balls are in good condition and I draw a black line in permanent texta on the ball and face the line at the Skytrak to help with detection and data accuracy.

[ltjackson]

I'm running normal ST software, none of the sims. No extenders and my sim room is 30 feet from my router which is pumping out about 70mbs and I consistently get around a 3 second delay. Using a 2.4 GHz network as opposed to the 5 GHz which my smart tv's use throughout the home.

[jschalk]

So I fixed the delay issue and am loving my ST! The solve was to get my iPhone on my 5ghz extender rather than us the regular 2.4ghz signal. Weird fix but it worked wonders. Thanks for all the help.

[Tonyd9366]

Protee never had delays.. and that was way cool. With my gc2. I get .75 to 1 sec at the most delay. I can live with that.

[jschalk]

I will try that and see if it is the issue. Thanks!

[ganders75]

I'd suggest checking for interference on the 2.4 GHz band. If you have an android device handy you can use wifi analyzer, or if you only have a PC then you can use inSSIDer (the trial version will be fine - I don't think there is an equivalent on iphone/ipad as it's against their developer agreement)

Anyway, both of the above will allow you to measure the interference you are getting on various channels, so you just pick the one with the least conflict. Watch the graphs for a while, and you'll see noise spikes, etc. In my experience most intermittent wifi issues come down to interference/noise from other devices/neighbours wifi, etc.

[Scyukon]

I hope the extender solves your problem. Sound very similar to my situation prior to purchasing the wifi extender.

[jschalk]

I increased connection speed of my internet, cleared most of my memory on my device and still am having 10 second delays via network and 3 seconds with a direct connection. Not sure what my next move is. I might get an extender, but my router is in the garage. Thanks for the feedback.

[Scyukon]

Looks like I will be going the hardwire route as well then for my pc. Thanks for listing the benefits of doing so.

[Bnorman58]

The main thing that sold me on the protee and glad I did

[TorchRedRob]

I believe the 2 second mark was a theoretical "best ever" sort of thing with neural net processors and unobtanium. Realistic best numbers from most reports seem to be right where you are measuring.

[pennypepper]

I posted my experiences in the Newbie thread but Ill repost here as its relevant.

I just got my skytrak and JNPG and have been testing to see which connection method was the fastest for my setup. I used a handheld stopwatch and just timed 25 shots with both wifi and USB connections. In my testing I never saw any times lower than 3.5 seconds. I wish I could get a 2 second delay! From my unscientific observations, wifi averaged 3.8 seconds and USB 3.6 seconds. This could be my slow reaction times or my wifi traffic on my network. So in the end, I would say they are pretty equal. Not sure how I can get into the 2-3 second range. Im running a brand new gaming PC i bought just for skytrak. Its a i7 with a 1070 graphics card and solid state drive. I also have an ipad pro but since it doesnt display in 16x9 aspect ratio Ive pretty much gone the PC route. I may consider using that if I can get shot delay down to the 2 second mark. But it would be a bummer to not use the full impact screen I just bought.

[jschalk]

Thanks for the info, but yesterday when I connected it directly to the ST, it worked fast. The day before when everything was networked through WIFI, it worked fast. All other times it has been slow. It hasn't been inconsistent while it is running, it is either 2-3 seconds every shot with no misreads or 10is seconds with a few misreads. I am paying for WGT so I need everything networked if I am going to enjoy the simulation experience.