Harry's GPS Suite Forum

Alongside "Racer's", "Speedo", "Classic" etc. views, it would be really useful to include a blank screen view. Many UK Tracks and track day organisers ban the use of lap timers but many track-goers want to capture their laps for offline analysis. Providing a "view" that does not display any live data would help with this issue. Many thanks for considering this

That's available too. It is called the 'Sleep' button on the top of your iPhone. At least if you use the internal GPS, LapTimer will not be suspended - but the screen will be turned off.

- Harry

If you "secretely" want to record video:
Video won't work with screen locked, so instead you can try to set everything up and then turn display brightness down to min. Especially when it's bright outside you can't tell the phone is on. Worked for me and the track guy even looked into the car

Harry - thanks, did not realise this, and I think a friend of mine tried this previously and said that it didn't work - so I never tried myself. I will give it a go next time I'm out on track.

Bulls23 - I don't use the video capture feature on the iPhone - I have a seperate GoPro Hero2 set up in the car for that. Going to be trying the wifi streaming feature coming soon with the GoPro wifi backpac to see if I can use the overlay feature with it. Not sure right now whether the streamed video can be saved on the iPhone, but the app is apparently coming very soon

Actually, thinking about it, I could use the front camera on the iPhone to video a rearward facing cabin view and manually set that as picture-in-picture footage with the GoPro main footage and Harry's data overlay - now we would be getting into the territory that multi-thousand pound data logging apps work in, for just a few hundred - less if you use a cheaper "main" camera than the GoPro. Awesome!!!!!