Support

Manuals & firmware

Every manual, technical sheet and firmware release for everything we have ever built — including the systems we stopped making years ago.

Current products

EchoActive

EchoActive Nano

The handheld unit. Its published figures are in the EchoActive technical sheet above, alongside the base and the transponder.

Firmware

Free for the life of the product

Not a support contract, not a subscription, not a paid upgrade. If you own the box, you get every release we ever make for it.

The box updates itself

  1. Plug the unit into a network — ethernet, or its own 4G if it has the modem.
  2. Open the settings screen. It checks what it is running against what we have published.
  3. If there is something newer, it tells you, and you decide whether to take it.
  4. It downloads and installs on its own, then restarts into the new version.

Transponders update the same way but over the air, from the base unit, so you never have to collect them in to do it.

Podium

Three apps, one event

Podium's help is written as short answers to real questions rather than a manual you have to read end to end. It is open to anybody, whether you use Podium or not — all of it is here.

Web · any browser

Podium

Setting up an event, entrants and race numbers, wave starts, timing points, publishing results, settling a protest.

Read the help →

Windows

Podium PC

The timing-truck application. Connecting boxes, watching reads arrive, correcting a clock, recovering missed reads.

Read the help →

Android

Podium Mobile

For out on the course. Commanding a box, checking a line is reading, adding a time by hand when something goes wrong.

Read the help →

Install Podium PC

The timing-truck application, for a machine that has never had it. It installs for you alone, so no administrator is needed, and it leaves the database, the captures and every setting you already have exactly where they are.

Install Podium Mobile

The Android application for out on the course — commanding a box over Bluetooth, checking a line is reading before the field arrives, and adding a time by hand when something goes wrong.

  • Podium Mobile for Android Not a public download yet. It goes out through Google Play's tester programme, which works by email address — so rather than a link, we add you and Play sends the invite. Ask us and we will put you on it. Android Request a copy →

Podium's help is maintained as an open repository, so it is corrected the day something changes rather than the next time a manual gets reprinted.

Legacy

Systems we no longer make

These products are discontinued and are not sold or supported as current systems. The documentation stays here because plenty of them are still out there and still working, and you should not have to ring us to find a manual for something you bought in 2015.

Firmware for Ultra, Joey, HDD and Dual Antenna MKII is available through us. It is not published here, because the right build depends on which unit you have and loading the wrong one is not a small mistake. Tell us the model and the serial number and we will send the correct file back, with what you need to load it. info [at] rfidtiming.com

Cannot find it?

If you own something of ours and there is no manual here for it, tell us and we will dig it out and put it up. That goes for the discontinued gear too.