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Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

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Re: Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

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Post by deltaknight »

sph wrote: post #9

Anyone know any API for real time Formula 1 timing info, standings, historical info, etc? I don't suppose FOM releases this data for free.

There is https://openf1.org which has an API, although I don't believe it's real-time. My projects uses the SignalR stream directly from F1, but it's not very API friendly and you have to learn and do a decent amount of processing to make it in to useful display data. Check out the UndercutF1.Data project to see how this is done. FastF1 also has a live timing client, although I don't think its their preferred method of analysis.

After a session is finished, F1 do upload json and jsonStream static files which you can download - checkout the DataImporter class to see how this is done (this is what powers the undercutf1 import` command)

Re: Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

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Post by deltaknight »

terminaltrove wrote: post #6

This looks very good, the screenshots are very detailed and helpful and it's nice to see TUIs using the kitty graphics protocol. Love that it is realtime as well. Great work on this.

Thank you! Yes, learning about the kitty and iterm graphics protocols was surprisingly fun, and opened my eyes to the potential power of modern TUIs (even if I'm not making best use of all the power).

Sixel on the other hand seems like an alien protocol whose implementation daunts me - think it'll be a while before I tackle that one.

Re: Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

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Post by happosai »

TUI for sports reminds me that in Finland, teletext is still very popular for following sports (football, ice hockey, even F1)

TUI gets you straight to the point, no ads, etc. So the teletext format is now outliving TVs and people read the teletext pages on their mobile phones (via we of dedicated apps)

https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=207

Re: Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

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Post by deltaknight »

happosai wrote: post #23

TUI for sports reminds me that in Finland, teletext is still very popular for following sports (football, ice hockey, even F1) TUI gets you straight to the point, no ads, etc. So the teletext format is now outliving TVs and people read the teletext pages on their mobile phones (via we of dedicated apps) https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=207

Oh that's fantastic, way better than searching for results on modern sports news sites. Definitely bookmarking this, maybe I'll accidentally learn a bit of Finnish.

Re: Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

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Post by eertami »

testing22321 wrote: post #18
deltaknight wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! I'm very proud of the track map and lap charts. I mulled over for months about rewriting the app into a native app or website so that I could do proper graphics etc, but then one day earlier this year I suddenly realised I could use Terminal Graphics protocols to achieve inline graphics in the TUI itself, giving me the best of both worlds!

If you wanted to monetize you’ll get way more users from a website or app. This is fantastic , but for techies only.

There's already a pretty popular free/opensource website with similar live data (https://f1-dash.com/) which would be an obvious alternative.

I also suspect that the trying to monetize a project like this would not sit well with the FIA, if you had any kind of traction.

Re: Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

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Post by deltaknight »

mysterydip wrote: post #25

Thank you for this! I love F1 and TUIs, this will be perfect for my desire to know more of what my midfield favorites are doing while the broadcasters are watching the front!

As it happens, I started to make this back when McLaren weren't doing quite as well as they are now... for exactly the reason you describe. Being able to see pit windows easily for drivers all the way down the field, and observe lap times and relative gaps for drivers makes following the midfield much easier.

Unfortunately I don't handle lapped drivers very well, once they're lapped much of the gap related stuff stops working for them. Thankfully the last year or so the field has been close enough where that's not too much of an issue.

Re: Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

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Post by deltaknight »

davidevansdev wrote: post #26

Kudos to you for even using Whisper to transcribe radio messages!

I have to admit, the transcription quality isn't all that great, it depends heavily on the driver and the audio quality on that particular weekend. I think it's better than nothing though.

Re: Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay

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Post by herodoturtle »

deltaknight wrote: post #24
happosai wrote: post #23

TUI for sports reminds me that in Finland, teletext is still very popular for following sports (football, ice hockey, even F1) TUI gets you straight to the point, no ads, etc. So the teletext format is now outliving TVs and people read the teletext pages on their mobile phones (via we of dedicated apps) https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=207

Oh that's fantastic, way better than searching for results on modern sports news sites. Definitely bookmarking this, maybe I'll accidentally learn a bit of Finnish.

Awesome work, thanks for sharing!

If you weren't already aware of it, check out the #f1 community on libera.

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