Re: Live 4A Scoreboard - Download the App - Score your team
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 3:57 pm
Mike, on the "score pad" you don't have to click post. The way the app is SUPPOSED to work you just click the score increment and it takes instantly and updates. There's an "x" button above the "+6". You might see it swirl after clicking a score which means it's uploading that score. Of course the "x" button is for closing the keypad when you're done.
The "post" button is only for posting comments on the thread and for sending updates to Facebook or text. I know that you're supposed to be able to integrate the app to also update people through your phone via text (SMS) but I don't know how well that works yet because I haven't tried it.
The only time you have to click something to get it to accept a score is if you manually type in a score and then you click the checkmark. I had the same problem the first game I did. I kept thinking I should click "post" to make the app accept the score change and post it to the game page.
We had a cheer competition going on at our game also. 1,700 against 1,800 clicks. It stands to reason that if there is a connectivity issue or data load placed on the servers or whatever that a cheer button may be doing more harm than good? I dunno. Chuck pointed out beside me that it seemed a bit cheap to just sit there and bang away at the cheer button. He thought it would make sense to just be delegated unique cheers per game, one cheer per user. That would serve a second function of giving immediate info on roughly how many people are signed up and viewing the game.
I will probably play around a bit more with the sample games and experiment. I can tell you that the info on your game seemed to be working well. I checked the game several times and was surprised how much info and how many comments there were from you. Dorman#1 is in the charleston area and usually relies on me to text updates for dorman games. The 1st two quarters he said he was receiving my comments but the scoreboard wasn't updating to reflect my comments. Halfway through the game he sent me a text saying it was now working really well.
I'm with band dad. I had several issues where there seemed to be a horrible lag where I finally figured out that it was struggling to reflect the updates but given a few minutes it would take it. Don't know what happened but everything started working nicely halfway through the game. I did send the scorestream folks an email outlining the problems I was having. Maybe they somehow resolved it during the game?? Impressive if that's the case.
Very strange that the comments were going straight to d1's phone but the score was not. And the comment thread would immediately reflect my changes but the scoreboard did not. The band was halfway through their show before the clock finally displayed that it was halftime.
Still for me it's easier than texting. My old Motorola had about 6 or 7 hoops I had to jump through in order to send a group of 10 people an update. My iPhone 5s doesn't even have groups I can text to. They say the 8.1 update has that though.
I think my phone is partly to blame. It really wouldn't load any web pages last night and the first email I tried to send to scorestream failed. I will get d#1 to fill me in on his experience as a dedicated spectator.
The "post" button is only for posting comments on the thread and for sending updates to Facebook or text. I know that you're supposed to be able to integrate the app to also update people through your phone via text (SMS) but I don't know how well that works yet because I haven't tried it.
The only time you have to click something to get it to accept a score is if you manually type in a score and then you click the checkmark. I had the same problem the first game I did. I kept thinking I should click "post" to make the app accept the score change and post it to the game page.
We had a cheer competition going on at our game also. 1,700 against 1,800 clicks. It stands to reason that if there is a connectivity issue or data load placed on the servers or whatever that a cheer button may be doing more harm than good? I dunno. Chuck pointed out beside me that it seemed a bit cheap to just sit there and bang away at the cheer button. He thought it would make sense to just be delegated unique cheers per game, one cheer per user. That would serve a second function of giving immediate info on roughly how many people are signed up and viewing the game.
I will probably play around a bit more with the sample games and experiment. I can tell you that the info on your game seemed to be working well. I checked the game several times and was surprised how much info and how many comments there were from you. Dorman#1 is in the charleston area and usually relies on me to text updates for dorman games. The 1st two quarters he said he was receiving my comments but the scoreboard wasn't updating to reflect my comments. Halfway through the game he sent me a text saying it was now working really well.
I'm with band dad. I had several issues where there seemed to be a horrible lag where I finally figured out that it was struggling to reflect the updates but given a few minutes it would take it. Don't know what happened but everything started working nicely halfway through the game. I did send the scorestream folks an email outlining the problems I was having. Maybe they somehow resolved it during the game?? Impressive if that's the case.
Very strange that the comments were going straight to d1's phone but the score was not. And the comment thread would immediately reflect my changes but the scoreboard did not. The band was halfway through their show before the clock finally displayed that it was halftime.
Still for me it's easier than texting. My old Motorola had about 6 or 7 hoops I had to jump through in order to send a group of 10 people an update. My iPhone 5s doesn't even have groups I can text to. They say the 8.1 update has that though.
I think my phone is partly to blame. It really wouldn't load any web pages last night and the first email I tried to send to scorestream failed. I will get d#1 to fill me in on his experience as a dedicated spectator.