Formula 1 Live Timing & Scoring
 

I'm trying to get F1's official timing and scoring to work on my tablet (so I don't have to have my PC running) and it just shows a blank page.

Is this a Flash (yet another) issue ?

Or is there any way to "trick" (like what some have done tricking sites like google docs or for viewing on iphone etc.(I realize iphone doesn't support flash either) ?

Re: Formula 1 Live Timing & Scoring
 

If this is a Java app (which I suspect it is), it won't work on the iT

Re: Formula 1 Live Timing & Scoring
 

You can use live-f1 stand alone console app for this.

You need account for live-f1:n web-service: www.formula1.com

You need also to activate root for X terminal. You can use becomeroot package for this. Becomeroot

Then you need to get ncurces-base package for tablet and it can be found from Maemo Chinook repository. Just go to http://gronmayer.com/it/ page and click "Click to Install!" picture. This will add Chinook repository.

After that open up X terminal and get root permissions, install ncurses-base and return to normal user with following commands.

Now get live-f1 package live-fi and install it to tablet.

Live-f1 must be started from X terminal.
When started first time it will ask username and password. If you make mistake typing this just remove ".f1rc" file from /home/user directory.

You need also to set font very small before starting live-f1 and be sure you are on full screen mode. If you are using this with N800 you need to be very quick to minimize on-screen keyboard. Hope this helps.

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That live-f1 thing is pretty cool, thanks for that mve.

Re: Formula 1 Live Timing & Scoring
 

Scott James Remnant is the one to thank for this one. I have nothing to with it I just remembered this software from the early days of 770 and managed to found that download link from old maemo wiki.

Re: Formula 1 Live Timing & Scoring
 

I'm getting this following error:

Insufficient lines on display

Using my office WLAN, I'm getting the following error message:

live-f1: unable to open data stream: Connection refused

I'm running an N800. Any idea why?

Re: Formula 1 Live Timing & Scoring
 

Have you set font down?

Yes works for me

Re: Formula 1 Live Timing & Scoring
 

What font size / type should i be using?

Re: Formula 1 Live Timing & Scoring
 

Monospace at 18 did it for me.

Re: Formula 1 Live Timing & Scoring
 

I'm on monospace 14 now and switching over to monospace 10. My N800 has no option for monospace 18.

update: great, now it says I have no connection to the server. *grrr*