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General Settings

Serial Port

The COM port used to communicate with your Arduino or button box controller. Select the port that matches your device (e.g. COM8). If you are not using a serial device for LED output, this setting has no effect.

Number of Buttons

Sets how many buttons are displayed in the settings panel (1–8). Only configured buttons are shown. Increase this if you need more reporting buttons.

Message Prepend

An optional prefix added to the start of every message before it is sent. Useful for tagging messages with a race series name or session identifier, for example: [Race Control]

Enable Logging

When enabled, every button press and the resulting message are written to a dated log file in Documents\iReporter\logs\. One file is created per day, named iReporter_YYYY-MM-DD.txt.

Logging Settings

Visible only when Enable Logging is turned on.

  • Days to keep logs — iReporter automatically deletes log files older than this many days on startup. Default is 30 days. Valid range is 1–365.
  • View Today's Log — opens the current day's log file in Notepad.
  • View log — select any past log date from the dropdown and click Open Selected to review it. Use the ↺ button to refresh the list if new files have appeared.
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