Introduction

race_control is for monitoring some automobile racing leaderboards and for control of radio scanners.

Features

• Screen scrapes leaderboards for some automobile racing series. This includes SCCA and ALMS. See config for full list
  • Highlights and announces change in position, driver changes, top speed, best lap
  • Auto mode to cycle through configured leaderboards and stop on session activity
• Controls AOR8200 radio scanners as well as provides user interface to display current frequency as well as human readable descriptor (from leaderboard if there is match otherwise from frequency database)
  • Uploads frequencies to scan banks
  • Configuration and UI to control two AOR8200 radios (start scan, search, set frequency from descriptor, set scan/search pass)
  • Initiate bandscope function and store/graph results.
• Provides database of radio frequencies including description and tags (groups)
• Interface to Optoelectronics Digital Scout. Stores hits from frequency counter and "reaction tune" the radio scanners
• Text to speech interface for most functions
• Speaks (via TTS) changes in weather (temperature, wind direction and speed, etc)
• Stores race weekend schedule and announces pending events (with configurable alert in advance of event)
• Provides controls to record audio and flac encode/tag the recordings
• When searching/scanning, stores gps lat/long
• Interface to control a few functions via cli (change screens, stop recording, etc)

Design

• Overall all pretty nasty. This is consistent with the coding
• Utilizes perl with Tk for UI and POE for most functionality
• The various interfaces have implementations separate from user interface (or at least that is the intent)

Utilities

• Application to manage frequency database

Dependencies

• All sorts of perl modules
• sqlite
• gpsd
• alsa/aplay
• Cepstral text to speech engine (http://www.cepstral.com/)
  • default configuration is Diane/Lawrence voices
• sox
• metaflac

Applicability

This application is highly tuned to my purpose/hardware. However, certain bits may be of general interest.

Among many things, this is not intended to be a general purpose interface to the AOR8200 radio. There are other applications that serve that purpose.

License

Copyright: Everything is copyrighted by me.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.