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> I filed a report last year about all the problems I had.  I figured I should 
> follow up this year regarding the updated FMS.
> 
> OffSeason Event: 2015 SCRRF Fall Classic
> Field Supervisor: Terry Wells
> FTA: Oliver Graff
> FMS: OffSeason v: 2.30.20921.1
> 
> Field hardware:
> - FMS Laptop: Core-i3, Windows 10
> - Router: Linksys e3000
> 
> The new FMS worked great.  There were only a couple minor issues, some of 
> which are known.  Oliver was a great help to keep things running smoothly.
> 
> We ran the Fall Classic as 2, separate 1-day events.  Saturday had 26 teams 
> and Sunday had 13.
> I used the OffSeason FMS documentation to the letter and didn't have any 
> problems getting the field up and running with multiple field monitors and pit
>  displays.
> Two tweaks:
> - The 2.4GHz WiFi was enabled on the field router to enable the remote field 
> monitors
> - The 5GHz WiFi was widened to 40MHz channels to reduce the possibility of a 
> Christmas tree.
> 
> The event ran very smoothly both days.  FMS never crashed or had to be 
> restarted due to problems.  We used the  scoring tab to track realtime scores,
>  which were validated by ref score sheets after each match.
> 
> Issues:
> 1) The radio kiosk tool has a bug for OffSeason mode.  If you provide an SSID,
>  but leave the WPA key blank, then it programs the radio mostly right, but 
> sets the SSID to the team number instead of the field SSID.  We discovered 
> this bug in testing, but it didn't affect us during the event as we used a WPA
>  key.
> 
> 2) Twice on Saturday, the FMS threw up an exception dialog when we clicked on 
> Prestart.  Oliver said it looked like some services may need to be restarted, 
> but when I cleared the pop-up and tried Prestart again, it worked fine.  So no
>  idea what happened there, but it was just a spurious message.
> 
> 3) Known issue: Re-prestarting sometimes causes previously connected driver 
> stations to need attention.  Oliver usually cleared these up.
> 
> 
> Thanks again for the great job on this year's FMS.  I'm looking forward to 
> next season's game.
> 
> Terry Wells

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