Venue Racing + USB@nywhere?

raisingmn · Post by **raisingmn** » March 7th, 2008, 12:11 pm

I'm curious to know if anyone has tried C2's Venue Racing application with a "USB over network" software solution such as USB@nywhere (www.intellidriver.com). This looks like it could be a low-cost internet racing solution.

-Glen

Citroen · Post by **Citroen** » March 7th, 2008, 1:25 pm

My initial reaction is WOW! You may want to get Scott H interested. I'll be a willing Rightpondian beta tester (I have PM4 but no ergo at home). There's no internet connection in the gym.

chgoss · Post by **chgoss** » March 18th, 2008, 12:52 pm

Excellant idea! Count me in if you want to give it a whirl.

With the next version of RowPro, there will be team racing! (2 man, 4 man boats..), but the caveat was that they had to be connected to the same PC... Hoping to try your idea on that as well...

cheers
-chad

raisingmn · Post by **raisingmn** » March 18th, 2008, 2:21 pm

Well, I've only had a chance to perform some limited tests with USB@nywhere + PM3:

It DOES allow the Concept 2 LogCard Utility to see a remote PM3 and download workouts as if the PM3 was connected locally.
Venue Racing also sees the remote PM3, but I haven't been able to do any test racing as I only have one monitor.

USB@nywhere claims to work across the internet so long as you have port forwarding configured correctly in the firewall at each end. I should be able to test this using my office and home networks.

The piece that is missing in this scenario is a way to share the Venue Racing screen back to each rower. There are plenty of screensharing apps out there, but I'm not familiar with any. Can someone recommend one?

-Glen

Citroen · Post by **Citroen** » March 18th, 2008, 4:00 pm

raisingmn wrote: The piece that is missing in this scenario is a way to share the Venue Racing screen back to each rower. There are plenty of screensharing apps out there, but I'm not familiar with any. Can someone recommend one?

-Glen

TightVNC (with cygwin, sshd & PuTTY to do the port forwarding securely) allows full remote control. It's enormous fun driving someone's window's machine remotely.

TightVNC also has a viewer only mode (but I've never tried that).

raisingmn · Post by **raisingmn** » March 18th, 2008, 4:51 pm

Thanks for the tip on TightVNC. I'm currently testing "Yugma - Skype Edition" - free screensharing for up to 10 users.

https://www.yugma.com/share_skype.php

-Glen