An Alpha Scoreboard is a scoreboard with a computer that can display swimmer names and team affiliations on the 6 to 10 line scoreboard. If your swimming facility has an Alpha Scoreboard and you have purchased the Alpha Scoreboard INTERFACE option from HY-TEK, click on Set-up from the Main Menu Bar and then click on Alpha Scoreboard Interface. Pick the particular vendor scoreboard that you will be using:
If you have chosen Generic Serial, then when you are ready to Run the meet, click on Interfaces then Scoreboard (Genser) from the Run Menu Bar and select the Communications COM port to which the Scoreboard is connected by clicking on Open/Close Serial Port for GENSER. Click on Configure Serial Port to customize the COM port to open at 1200, 2400, 4800, or 9600 baud. The parity, data bits, and stop bits can also be set.
The Generic Scoreboard Interface has a feature which allows the HY-TEK operator in the Run Menu to send the current heat start list to the scoreboard by pressing Ctrl-F10. To send the top 8 results to the scoreboard, press Ctrl F-11 when heat one is highlighted. To send 9th - 16th results to the scoreboard, press Ctrl F-11 when heat two is highlighted, and so on. To send the Team Scores for the gender of the event in the Run Menu, press Ctrl-F9. To send the complete compiled list of the results of the current event, press Ctrl-F12. This can be done at any time such as after two heats of five are completed. This feature also supports the ResulTV product provided by Lynx System Developers.
The Daktronics Venus Scoreboard computer uses the same COM port connection for the Scoreboard as it does for the Timing Console. The Colorado Time System and Omega Alpha Scoreboards use COM port 2 for the connection to their Scoreboard computer.
Please check with your Scoreboard vendor for the exact details on how to connect the Scoreboard Computer to HY-TEK's MEET MANAGER and how to request Start Lists and Results from MM.
