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16.6 Automatic GPS Track Detection
With the GPS lap trigger, an automatic track detection can be activated by checking the
highlighted box in the lap trigger configuration at the GPS tab.
Activating this functionality will overwrite the GPS trigger point coordinates and the track
length with the values of a detected racetrack. The coordinates and the track length will
be grayed out in the tool.
The function will compare the current GPS position with the coordinates of the known
Racetracks list and use the closest GPS trigger point. If there are track variants with differ-
ent track length, the system will adapt itself to the correct variant, if it is in the known
racetrack list, after ~three detected laps. Please note that the track length needs to be
quite accurate, /- 100 m, to adapt itself to another variant.
The known Racetrack list can be found in the lap trigger configuration menu within the
Known Racetracks tab. It contains a built-in list and a user-defined list. Each track can be
activated or deactivated with the checkbox to manually set the variant if needed.
User defined tracks can either be added from scratch with the Add Track button or with
the Copy Track button as a modified version of a built in track. Both buttons will open the
same Edit Race Track menu.
In the menu a track name, length and the coordinates of the detection point is required.
The coordinates can be pulled from the GPS tab with the button “Get values …” or sent to
the GPS tab with the button “Set values …”. This allows an easy interaction with the
manual GPS lap trigger mode.
The user-defined tracks will be part of the project. If the tracks are required in another
project, the lap trigger module can be ex-/imported into another project.