You haven’t heard from us in a while, but we’ve been hard at work supporting existing features, making little tweaks all over the place, and adding some new stuff. Here are some highlights:

• Parsing the AiM CSV format: OCD can now read the CSV format that Race Studio 2 exports. Simply export as CSV, and import the file in OCD! [Please Note: This feature is available only in our Alfano version of OCD.]
• When importing duplicate runs, OCD is now more clear in its behavior. When you import the same run twice, OCD will tell you during the import. When you’re importing a lot of runs at the same time, OCD will stop the import to let you know there are duplicates. You can then choose to discard them, or import them anyways.
• When aligning a video with the data, we now make sure you can always see which part of the data is currently playing. It’s a small change, but it should help a lot!
• We made some improvements to the way that OCD handles data from a steering wheel sensor.
• Finally, we made some changes to how the delta graph works, for improved accuracy even when the GPS is a little wonky.

Especially for users participating in the ALFANO beta version, we have a few more changes:

• When you download from the device, you can now choose exactly which runs to download, and which ones to leave on the device.
• We improved compatibility and reliability of the ALFANO importer. To our knowledge, all configurations of the PROIIIEVO should now work. If you find one that does not, please let us know at feedback@offcamberdata.com!

As always, you can get the new version from the downloads page, or simply restart your old version of Off Camber Data. If you would like to contribute, feel free to comment on the blog, or send us an email at feedback@offcamberdata.com!

It’s not a big release, but it has a major new feature that a lot of you have been asking for: Custom smoothing.

We have always applied smoothing to some channels, but now you can choose for each channel how much smoothing you would like. You can set the smoothing factor in Channel Management, but there is an easier, faster way: In the graph, right-click on the channel you’d like to smooth, and choose “Properties”. OCD will show you window like the one below:

Simply drag the slider left and right. OCD will show the effect immediately. The filter that’s applied is a simple moving-average filter with no delay. We’re planning on adding a low-pass filter in a later release.

Smoothing is great, but it is not everything in this version. Here are some other highlights:

• Column widths in the current values window are now saved across restarts. It’s a small thing, but I know that for many this makes the Current Values window twice as useful.
• When you import a single new run, OCD now automatically opens the fastest three laps for you.
• We put some work into the code that automatically hides in-laps and out-laps. We know it is still not perfect, and it will sometimes get tripped up by truncated laps, but it should be a little better than it used to be.
• For people using the UniGo 8005, we added a new math channel that takes advantage of the barometer in it. The channel is called “Relative Air Density“, and it is designed to help with tuning the carburetor. As a rule, the denser the air, the richer the air/fuel mixture has to be.
• OCD can now use AVI files in addition to MP4 files. If you have a video format that you would like us to support, please let us know!

As always, you can get the new version from the downloads page, or simply restart your old version of Off Camber Data. If you would like to contribute, and especially if you have some thoughts on additions to the X/Y plots, feel free to just comment on the blog, or send us an email at feedback@offcamberdata.com!

We have another version ready, full of goodies and improvements. The most visible new feature is certainly the new plot type: X/Y plots. They are a bit basic in their current form, a herald of things to come, but they are already quite useful. Scroll down to see an example configuration!

There is a ton of other stuff in this release as well, so here is an abridged list:

• The channel selection menu for the graphs now stays open until you dismiss it.
• You can now navigate the graphs with the keyboard. The mouse moves the cursor like normal, but you can now also move the cursor by pressing ← or →, and you can zoom in or out with ↑ and ↓.
• We made a major performance improvement of the graph, especially on Windows.
• We added a special math channel for Speedway users, calculating wheel slip in a different way that works on a Speedway bike.
• The “Current Values” window (usually at the top right) was using long channel names, wasting a lot of space. Now it uses short channel names.
• In version 62, we added the possibility to flip the delta graph, but there was a bug that made all lap colors the same when you do that. This is now fixed.
• We now limit the number of simultaneously open laps to 30. 30 is enough squiggly lines to get confused anyways.
• The “Add Runs” dialog is now bigger by default, and saves its size between restarts.

Comparing Speed with Acceleration on the XY graph gives you a simple way of checking whether a change to the engine settings had the desired effect.

We also made some changes specific to certain lap timers:

• For the UniGo:
  • The steering wheel sensor on the UniBox now calibrates itself automatically.
  • Barometric pressure now imports correctly from the UniGo 8005.
• For the ALFANO:
  • The steering wheel and pedal sensors on ALFANO now import under the correct channel names. Also, the units for the lambda sensor are now correct.
  • OCD can now import ALF files from VisualData2 or the ALFANO Android app.
  • The track map now shows up correctly no matter the hemisphere you drive in.

As always, you can get the new version from the downloads page, or simply restart your old version of Off Camber Data. If you would like to contribute, and especially if you have some thoughts on additions to the X/Y plots, feel free to just comment on the blog, or send us an email at feedback@offcamberdata.com!

This version has a lot of changes, and addresses a lot of issues, but most of them are so small you barely even notice them … unless you do, and then it’s the most annoying thing in the world. We want to make sure that OCD does not only have the features you need, but that all the features we have are thought through and a joy to use. So here is a grab-bag of refinements that should make your analysis sessions a little easier, and maybe even a little more fun:

• We made some visual changes to make it more obvious that you can drag and reorder graphs. To reorder them click and hold on the name of the channel, and drag it into the desired position.
• Off Camber Data now shows split lines in the video sync dialog. This makes it much easier to synchronize the video with the data when you can see the magnetic loop on the track surface in the video.
• Some people prefer to invert the delta graph, so that it measures “Time Gained” instead of “Time Lost”, down is bad, and up is good. We added an option in the settings to make this possible.
• The “Add Runs” dialog can filter by driver, track, or kart. Those filters stay around until you clear them, even when you restart OCD. It is a little too subtle to see right now when you have a filter enabled, and so sometimes the dialog does not show your runs, and it’s hard to see why. We are working on improving that dialog comprehensively, but until that is ready, we made a simpler change: We added a big “Clear Filters” button.
• We made some assorted improvements to the Alfano support. The values are now a little more accurate,  Off Camber Data understands more channels, and can now keep importing even if some channels are unknown to us.
• Sometimes the video widget would not resize properly. Now it does!
• We updated the Swedish and German translations. Thank you Niclas!
• The slip channel is calculated from RPM and Speed, but it was unclear whether it uses GPS Speed or Wheel Speed. We changed it so that now it follows the settings on the run. In other words, it uses GPS Speed if “Prefer GPS” is clicked, and Wheel Speed otherwise.
• The channel button now looks a little more like a button. On some versions of Windows, it was hard to notice that you can click it at all!
• Off Camber Data makes backups of every file that it imports. In this version, even files that fail to import are backed up. In some scenarios, this makes it easier for us to diagnose problems.

As always, you can get the new version from the downloads page, or simply restart your old version of Off Camber Data. If you would like to contribute, feel free to just comment on the blog, or send us an email at feedback@offcamberdata.com!

Off Camber Data turns 60! And with that, we have a major new version ready for you. The headline feature this time around: Video support!

You can now associate a GoPro video with every run. When you mouse over the graph, Off Camber Data will show the exact time in the video at your cursor position. That means you can very accurately compare lines and braking zones. This also helps tremendously when you spotted some strange data, and you want to see what was going on at the time.

You can also click on the video to start playing it. It will play one video for each selected lap, up to four at the same time. You can also select a passage in the graph and hit play. This will replay that passage over and over again. That’s useful when you want to compare that passage specifically, and see side-by-side what happened. It looks something like this:

A few things are worth noting:

• We have only tried this with GoPro videos. It will probably also work with other cameras, but we can’t officially support that until we have tried it. If you are using a camera other than a GoPro, please let us know at feedback@offcamberdata.com! We are interested both when it works, and when it doesn’t work, so we can either fix it, or add your camera to the list of officially supported cameras.
• At the moment, it is necessary to synchronize the video with the data manually. We have a prototype that can do this automatically. This is obviously a huge time saver at the track. We want to release this feature as soon as possible, but to do so we need a lot of example pairs of data and video to tweak the algorithm. Once again, please contact us at feedback@offcamberdata.com if you can help with this.

Video is cool, but we have some other features and fixes as well:

• We expanded the track database. You can of course still create your own tracks, but with the track database feature, you can have the track ready before you go out for the first time. Also, by using it you can be sure that you are using the same track definition as your friends and team-mates, so that the data is comparable.
• OCD now keeps track of which runs you have imported before. By default, it will not let you import the same run again, but you can still do it by going in the menu, to File ⇒ Import All.
• Especially for large stores, OCD often took a long time to start up. Performance work never stops and there is always more to do, but we put some time into speeding up cold starts of the program. If you have a lot of runs you should see a big difference.
• We thought we would spruce up the graph display a little bit, and show a cool fade under each data line that is by itself.
• Some temperature channels were shown in OCD with more precision than the sensors can provide. We reduced the precision for some of those channels.
• With the glare at some track-side data analysis stations, it’s often difficult to see the color highlights for the minimum and maximum values in the Min/max screen, so we made them bold as well.
• While importing multiple runs at the same time, OCD now keeps the tags from one run to the next. That way, when you have five drivers coming in at the same time, from the same session, you can set the tag identifying the heat for the first one, and just click “Import” for all the others.
• When creating a new UniBox configuration, OCD now starts with the default factory settings, instead of an empty configuration.
• There was a problem where finding previous notes was not reliable, but only east of London. Now, this feature works east of London, west of London, and even in London itself!

As always, you can get the new version from the downloads page, or simply restart your old version of Off Camber Data. If you would like to contribute, feel free to just comment on the blog, or send us an email at feedback@offcamberdata.com!

This is a small update, with most of the changes in the background, but there is one thing we wanted to call out: For those of you who have a UniBox, this version makes it much more useful. The gyro and accelerometer axis are now smoothed to make it easier to see the data, and we added a new math channel: Inverse corner radius.

Inverse corner radius tells you how much the driver is turning. A value around 0 means no turning. A value above 0 means you’re turning right. A value below 0 means you’re turning left. The higher/lower the value, the sharper the turn. This way you can see if, for example, in one lap you had a sharp turn-in and a smooth exit, or the other way around, and you’ll be able to see which one is faster.

In the highlighted section, the green lap loses about 0.2 seconds. On the inverse corner radius graph, you can see that the red lap turns in earlier, and then switches direction slightly sooner, than the driver in the green lap.

As always, you can get the new version from the downloads page, or simply restart your old version of Off Camber Data. If you would like to contribute, feel free to just comment on the blog, or send us an email at feedback@offcamberdata.com!

Finally, if you are going to the Supernationals in Las Vegas, make sure to say hi! We’ll be there from Thursday to Sunday.

Today, we have another very cool release for you. Several people have asked for it, and we’re proud to finally deliver it: Configurable graph layouts. With this new feature, you can define several graph configurations, for example one for a quick overview for the driver, one for a detailed analysis of some turns, and one for engine tuning. This will make it much faster to get you to the data you need.

In this configuration, I have three pre-configured layouts: “Overview”, “Temperatures”, and “Engine”.

But that’s not all. We have a bunch of other features in this release as well:

• In the track management window, you can now download track settings from the OCD server. That way you can arrive at a new track fully prepared with magnet and GPS settings. Please help us fill out our track database! If your favorite track is missing from the list, email us at feedback@offcamberdata.com!
• Speaking of tracks: Now, when you synchronize the tracks between OCD and the UniGo, it does not delete tracks that are on the UniGo already. It only adds new ones and updates existing ones.
• OCD now makes sure that the track list is sorted alphabetically, both in OCD and on the UniGo. To see the change on the UniGo, you have to synchronize tracks with OCD at least once.
• Finally, on the topic of tracks, if you have no track set and you do a run with GPS enabled, OCD now suggests creating a new track during import. It was already possible to create a track from a new run, but we made it easier to discover, and faster, for a better experience at a new track.
• There was a surprisingly common problem when importing .ocd files from one computer into another. This is now fixed!
• We got a new update for the Dutch language, thanks to Martijn Nelissen. Thank you!
• We also got an update for Swedish, thanks to Niclas Andersson. Thank you as well!
• Due to a bug, units were untranslatable in the previous version of OCD. This is now fixed, and units are translatable. We don’t have all the translations yet, but we are working on it!
• Sometimes, the numbers in the min/max window differed from the numbers in the graph window. This is now fixed.
• We made some detailed fixes to how the graphs are drawn. In particular, we changed how stretching works, and how the Y-axis is drawn.
• There were some differences in how you can configure the UniGo on the device vs. how you can configure it from OCD. We made sure they are the same now.
• Finally, we fixed a handful of crashes, some that were brought to our attention by you, and some we found ourselves.

We think this is a really cool release, and so I want to thank everyone who came to us with feedback and suggestions. I want to thank those of you especially whose suggestions take a long time to respond to. There are only three of us, so we cannot do everything right away, but we do take every bit of feedback seriously. Ultimately, it lets us make releases like this one.

As always, you can get the new version from the downloads page, or simply restart your old version of Off Camber Data. If you would like to contribute, feel free to just comment on the blog, or send us an email at feedback@offcamberdata.com!

This is an exciting release! We have a big number of changes, and many of them were suggestions from you. Let’s go through them:

• You can now reorder the graphs. Just grab them by the title, and pull up or down. The order of the graphs is saved even when you close and restart the program.
• We removed a lot of the empty space between graphs, so you can fit more graphs on the screen and see the data with more accuracy. Both of these changes are good for every situation, but they are particularly good if you have pedal sensors, and you want to see throttle pedal and brake pedal next to each other. We experimented with putting those two on top of each other, into the same graph, but all the lines get too confusing when you have more than one selected lap. We know that a lot of people are interested in this, so please let us know what you think about this decision!
• OCD finally has support for Units, so if you like, you can show your speed in miles per hour, meters per second, or knots.
• In the last release, we added the notes field to give you a place to keep setup information. To make this easier, OCD automatically fills in the notes field from a previous run. If you have one driver, this works great, but if you have many, it often pulls the notes from the wrong driver. So we fixed it. Now, it pulls notes only from earlier runs of the same driver.

Those are the big ones, but there are a few smaller ones as well:

• When changing the UniGo settings, OCD would sometimes overwrite a setting by accident. This no longer happens.
• We were not very consistent with the channel names. Sometimes it was “Tire Temp FR”, sometimes it was “FR TTemp”, and so we went through and organized them. This should make it easier for our translators as well, but it might take us a few weeks to get all new translations in for everything. In the meantime, we apologize for having so much untranslated text.
• Our TSV export did not include final lap times, because of the way the data was formatted. We changed the format a little, so now the lap times are there.
• Sometimes, when you zoom in enough, the graph would show little spikes. It no longer does.
• Some customers have problems with corrupted files that would not import properly into OCD. Corrupted files are always a problem, but we changed some things around to get a little more data out of them.

There is also a hidden feature that we’ll talk about next time. It is included in this release, but we felt it’s not quite good enough yet. If you find out what it is, let us know :-).

As always, you can get the new version from the downloads page, or simply restart your old version of Off Camber Data. For feedback, feel free to just comment on the blog, or send us an email at feedback@offcamberdata.com!