General Settings

Version / Build Number

The current version of iReporter is displayed in small grey text next to the iReporter title at the very top of the settings panel (for example, v0.48). This is useful when reporting a problem or checking whether you have the latest release.

If a newer version is available, a highlighted banner will appear below the title bar notifying you of the update and showing both your current version and the version available.

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Connection Status

Directly below the title, iReporter displays a live status bar that shows whether your iReporter Button Box is connected and recognised. The status updates automatically every 2 seconds and uses colour coding to make the state immediately obvious at a glance.

Colour Status What it means Green Verified and Connected The iReporter Button Box has been found on the selected COM port and has confirmed it is an iReporter device. Everything is working correctly. Amber Connected — Not Confirmed A serial device has been detected on the selected COM port, but it has not yet responded as an iReporter Button Box. This can appear briefly during startup while the device is initialising, or may indicate the wrong COM port is selected. Red Not Connected No device could be found on the selected COM port, or an error occurred when trying to connect. Check that the Button Box is plugged in, the correct COM port is selected in settings, and no other application is using that port.

Serial Port

The COM port used to communicate with your iReporter Button Box. Select the port that matches your device (e.g. COM8). You can find the correct port in Windows Device Manager under Ports (COM & LPT). The connection status bar above will confirm when the correct port is selected.

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 on your layout.

Message Prepend

An optional prefix added to the start of every message before it is sent. UsefulThis is particularly useful to bring up the text chat box within iRacing. By default "t" is assigned to activating the text chat box and allowing for text entry. It also can be used for tagging messages with a race series name or session identifier, for example: /rc or [SpeedTech Racing]

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.