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RoadBook PRO

The roadbook converted from the PDF: the notes one below the other, the trip resets, the waypoints and the coordinates. Here you find the commands, one by one.

RoadBook PRO

The Roadbook tab of the menu and the start page: conversion, cloud, library and guided setup.

Convert to RoadBook PRO: Choose a PDF, a .rn2 roadbook or an OpenRally GPX: ODOCAP converts it to RoadBook PRO and opens it. With .rn2 and OpenRally the waypoints are validated even when the coordinates aren't shown. With the ODOCAP subscription conversions are unlimited; during the trial days the included ones apply, which you read in Account, under Included in your account. Without it, ODOCAP offers the subscription, with the price coming from the store.
Download from cloud: In the menu, next to Convert to RoadBook PRO, and on the start page. It asks what you want: a RoadBook PRO already converted, ready to open, or a PDF to convert.
RoadBook PRO library: The RoadBook PRO files on the device: tap to open, New folder to sort them, drag them into the folder, the bin deletes them.
Move to Cloud: Next to the name of every file in the library: it uploads that RoadBook PRO to the Cloud space, for the other devices of your account. RoadBook PRO files are not passed to other accounts. Without a subscription it is not there: the cloud space is not included.
Guided setup: It is offered every time you load a RoadBook PRO, and it is here in the menu. One step at a time: bar, sensor, active note, advance and keypad (six keys). Next confirms the step, Skip leaves everything as it is.

PRO interface

Commands for RoadBook PRO layout, visible notes, active note, lines, data and countdown alerts.

Automatic advance: On: when the trip reaches the note's km, the roadbook moves on to the next note by itself. It stops where the roadbook resets the km and starts again when you reset the trip.
Advance after: Metres after the note's km before moving to the next one. If unsure, leave 0.
Lines: The colour of the two lines that mark the note to read: tap the dot and choose from the palette.
Notes on screen: How many notes you see at once, with + and -.
Active note: 1st note: the note to read is the first one at the top and goes away once you pass it. 2nd note: the one you just passed stays at the top, dimmed (how much is set by Dim first note).
Dim first note: With 2nd note active, how much to darken the note already passed.
Line thickness: The thickness of the two lines that mark the note to read.
KM: Shows or hides total kilometers in the trip bar.
COUNTDOWN: How far it is to the km of the next note. During the event the organiser can switch it off: the line below says This event organiser's choice.
SPEED: Shows or hides speed in the trip bar.
CAP: Shows or hides the CAP compass calculated from GPS movement.
WAYPOINT: Turns on or off, in the bar, the box of the waypoint to take. It only appears if the roadbook has waypoints.
GPS coordinates: The note coordinates in the right column. During the event the organiser can hide them.
Copy coordinates: Tapping the coordinates copies them to the clipboard, in decimal degrees, to find the point again if you get lost. During the event the organiser can switch this off.
Match KM to waypoint: When a waypoint is validated, the trip jumps to the km of its note. On a point that was missed and then recovered, the trip stays where it is.
Amateur radii: Validates the safety waypoint at 90 m instead of 30, as at amateur events. Radii written in the roadbook still take priority.
Note alert: A signal before the note, like rally trip meters: two beeps at the metres set in Alert at (100 to 2000), three if the note is important (waypoint, danger, CAP, speed zone, trip reset). With the countdown colours it plays one beep at green, two at orange and a long one at red instead, at the distances of the COUNTDOWN section. Important notes only silences the plain notes. During the event the organiser can switch it off.
Sound: The alert sound: Buzzer (the loudest, like rally trip meters), Beep, Two-tone or Bell. Tapping one plays it straight away. The volume is the phone media volume, and on iPhone it plays even with the silent switch on.
CAP check: After a note with a CAP, if the GPS heading strays from the roadbook CAP by more than the tolerance, the CAP box turns orange with the roadbook CAP under it, and the external displays show it. + and - set the tolerance in degrees.
Waypoint only when needed: The waypoint box appears only when the point is near (Waypoint from, 1000 m by default), in speed zones and when a point is taken or missed, and it takes the place of the countdown. It also applies to the external display set to the waypoint, which otherwise shows the km.
Dynamic colors: The trip bar changes colour according to the distance to the next note: green, orange, red.
Bar flashing: Makes the trip bar flash when the countdown enters the warning range.
Blinking: Adjusts the duration of the bar flash.
Green: How many metres before the note the bar turns green. The dot next to it changes the colour.
Orange: Sets the last warning before the note reference.
Red: Sets when red appears after reaching the note.

Keypad

Controls to assign the physical keypad and control RoadBook and trip without touching the screen.

RoadBook UP: Goes back to the previous note. Held down, it scrolls.
RoadBook Down: Moves the roadbook to the next note. Held down, it scrolls.
Trip +: Adds 10 metres to the trip. Held down, it runs.
Trip -: Takes 10 metres off the trip. Held down, it runs.
Set KM to note: Sets the trip to the km of the note to read.
Trip reset: Sets the trip back to 0.00. It must be held down, so it never resets by mistake.
Reset assignments: Clears all configured button assignments.

Wheel sensor

Controls to choose trip source, configure the wheel and correct GPS or circumference.

GPS Sensor: The trip counts with the GPS. Works on any phone and tablet, with nothing to connect.
Wheel sensor input: Tap it and turn the wheel: the app takes the first pulse. Without an input the trip stays still.
Circumference: The wheel circumference in mm. Example: over 10.00 km of notes the trip reads 10.15: set 2160 to 2128.
Start wheel sensor calibration: Ride a marked 1 km stretch, then press Calculate circumference: ODOCAP measures it by itself.
Start GPS 1 KM calibration: From the zero point ride 1 real km, then press the same button again: ODOCAP calculates the GPS correction.
GPS correction: Metres to add or remove for every km with the GPS. Example: over 10.00 km of notes the trip reads 10.15: set -15 m.

External displays

What to show on the two ODOCAP external displays, connected to the tablet by USB.

Times on master: Adds TIME, CO and countdown below the main value on the master display.
Enable external displays: Turns sending data to the external displays on or off. When on, the button becomes Disable external displays.
Display 1: What the first display shows: KM, Countdown, Speed or CAP. In RoadBook PRO also Waypoint, the point to take.
Display 2: What the second display shows, with the same choices.

Time controls

Controls to set start, CO and time information shown in the bar.

Show times in bar: Shows current time, active CO and countdown in the top bar.
Start: Sets the official start time.
TC1: From CO1 to CO5: tap the time and type how long after the start the control is; ODOCAP shows the Expected arrival. USE makes that CO the active one.
TIME, CO1 and Remaining: Summarizes current time, active CO and time remaining to the control.
Reset times: Clears start and configured time controls.
Chained times: As on time cards: the ideal time of a TC counts from the time stamped at the previous TC, not from the start. If you stamp TC2 2 minutes late, TC3 moves by 2 minutes. In the bar WAIT in the minutes before your minute (Early warning), green in the right minute, LATE after; at the last TC arriving early is allowed.
Stamp the active TC: At the control tap Stamp the active TC: the current time to the minute, then the next TC becomes active. Marshal time enters the time stamped on the time card; Remove the last stamp fixes a wrong stamp.

Pen

The pen button, on the roadbook screen, opens the bar for drawing on the notes. It works in the PDF and in RoadBook PRO.

Note: The bar shows the number of the note you are drawing on: tap it to change note. Drag the bar to move it.
Pen color: The coloured dots: the colour of the stroke.
Line thickness: The - and + buttons next to the number change the thickness of the stroke.
Color opacity: The two buttons next to the percentage make the stroke more transparent or more opaque.
Undo last stroke: Removes the last stroke drawn on that note.
Clear marks on this note: Removes all the marks on the note.
Close pen: Closes the bar and goes back to the roadbook controls.

Waypoints

The box in the bar and the WAYPOINT window. Only the GPS decides the state of the points: there is no command to change it by hand.

Waypoint box: In the trip bar, on a white background: letter, arrow and distance. The counter taken/total is among the small data, with the missed ones in red. Tap it to open the WAYPOINT window.
POINTS: Each point with its note, km and radii. The circle tells the state: grey closed, light blue open, green validated, red missed.
TIMES: The validation time of each point and how long since the previous one. The log stays even if you restart the tablet.

Legend

The roadbook symbols, in the last tab of the menu.

Legend: The tab with the points of the international regulations, the radii ODOCAP validates them with, the three danger levels, how to read a note and every roadbook symbol: those of the FIA lexicon and those added by ODOCAP (event zones, services, vehicles, buildings).

Road test

For a roadbook made with RoadBook Builder on this device.

Road test: pencils on the notes: When on, every note has a pencil on km, tulip and note. Tap it: RoadBook Builder opens on that cell, you correct it, press Done and you are back here on the same note, with the trip as it is. Works without a connection. Switch them off during the event.

Remember

The note to read sits between two coloured lines (lilac by default; colour and thickness in Interface, Lines and Line thickness): Set KM to note, the pen and the advance follow that one.
Every time you load a RoadBook PRO, ODOCAP offers the guided setup: trip bar, sensor, active note, advance and keypad. You can skip it, and you find it again in the menu, Roadbook tab.
The automatic note advance stops on a trip-reset note and resumes when you reset the trip or set it to the right km.
Waypoints are validated only by passing inside their radius with the GPS, one after the other. When you take the next one, the skipped one becomes missed; if you go back over it, it is validated again and the trip does not go back.
The radii are those of the rules for each letter; if the roadbook prints one next to the point, that one counts.
In an event, if the organiser changes the roadbook while you have it open, A new version of this roadbook has arrived appears with Open the new one: it reopens on the same note, with the trip as it is.
The roadbook of a day that has not opened yet is already on the device: tapping it you read Opens later, with date and time, and at its time it opens by itself.
At the end of the event the roadbook closes and says when it will be deleted from the device.
Tapping the coordinates of a note copies them to the clipboard, unless the organiser has disabled it for their event.
Pressing and holding the coordinates opens NAVIGATION towards that point (next to them it says Navigate to coordinate), unless the organiser has switched it off. When you come back the keypad resumes by itself.

If something does not work

The conversion does not start: it comes with the ODOCAP subscription, and during the trial days the included conversions apply (Account > Included in your account). Also check the connection.
The roadbook shows no waypoint: the PDF lacks the waypoint coordinates. You need a PDF with the coordinates printed, to convert again.
If the highlighted note is not the one you want, change Active note between 1st note and 2nd note.
A reset note does not stop the advance, or the trip does not restart from 0.00: convert the PDF again, a package converted long ago may not have the reset.
A waypoint shows as missed: you skipped it by taking the next one. If you go back over it with the GPS, it is validated again.
The road test pencils do not appear: turn them on in the menu, Roadbook tab, and use a roadbook exported from RoadBook Builder on this device.