So you have a quick overview of the whole system.
note:
The monitor may be started at any time, even if the competition is ongoing. (e.g. to analyze problems)
Manny-Qt is a collection of free applications for the computer based judging for artistic cycling competition. It contains the modules for the Chief as well as for the Announcing and Writing Commissaire.
Manny-Qt was designed to be used
Which requisites do
I need?
Hardware
needed amount hardware
minimum hardware
requirements
Software
Operating system
Applicationsoftware -
Manny-Qt
Network
general overview
network architecture
network check
error analyses
MannyNetMon
What is
MannyNetMon for?
How can
MannyNetMon help?
Chief (Obmann)
How to start the Chief
application (Obmann)?
How to get the
evaluation sheets?
How does the Chief work?
What is the
difference between 'Finalize' und 'Abort'?
How can I stop the time?
How can I
configure the clock?
How do I
select a competitor?
How can I
synchronize the start at multiple areas?
How can I get the
rider names?
How can I
select exercises?
How can I
observe the judgements?
How can I
correct a judgement?
How can I
access the regulation?
Where can I
found the sheets?
Which properties can I
change?
How
can I enter the jury?
How to define
the workflow at competitor change?
How to
enter the competition?
Which
other properties can I change?
How to solve problems?
Writer (Kampfrichter.exe)
How to start the Writer
application
Which properties
can I change?
How can I judge?
How can I select
exercises?
How can I do
devaluation?
How can I finalize
the judgement ?
How to solve problems?
Scoreboard (Anzeige.exe)
How to start the
application?
Command
line parameter
What will be displayed?
Which points are displayed?
Which properties
can I change?
How to add a logo
How to adjust the
dimension?
What happens during
coffee break?
How
to configure an external application?
Infoterminal
How to start the
Infoterminal?
Command
line parameter
Which properties
can I change?
How to adjust the
dimension?
What happens
during coffee break?
How does
the Liveticker works?
Tips und Tricks (Manny)
How to connect organizing
office and chief?
What may happen during
'connect'?
How to reduce the
amount of needed PCs?
omit the
scoreboard PC
minimal
configuration
How to use voice as audible
indicator?
Tips und Tricks
(Betriebssystemeistellungen)
Wie
kann
ich den Rechnernamen eingeben/ändern
Wie kann
ich eine feste IP-Adresse vergeben/ändern?
Wie
richte ich einen erweiterten Desktop ein?
Wie
kann ich den Ordner für das Wettkampfbüro freigeben?
Wie
richte
ich einen Netzwerkdrucker ein?
Manny-Qt was developed on the oldest possible operating system and at reused hardware. The tests were performed on different system versions as well as on different hardware.
So there should be a big availability (with current status of
technology) with low hardware requirements. Nevertheless the
following minimum requirements must be fulfilled:
| CPU: | Intel: Pentium® -M, 4 or newer AMD: Opteron, Athlon 64 or newer |
| RAM: | min. 256 MB |
| Harddisc: | 100 MB free space |
| Display: | min. 800x600 resolution, 1024x768 recommended |
note: If you run multiple applications on one PC you need at least more memory.
The configuration can be verified by MannyNetMon.
In case of necessary changes please follow the links.
Manny-Qt was designed:
note:
Different components of Manny can run on the same PC, so it is
possible to reduce the amount of needed Hardware. see Tips and tricks for further
information.
If it is the initial usage of this hardware setup, you should test the infrastructure first. For this, start the 'MannyNetMon' on all PCs. On success, all PCs shall be listed at all MannyNetMon.
Now startup the needed Manny-Qt-applications in the following order:
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In the main area all detected
Manny-applications are listed, sorted by area. So you have a quick overview of the whole system. note: The monitor may be started at any time, even if the competition is ongoing. (e.g. to analyze problems) |
If you press the [details] - Button, the following additional information are available:
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If the desired interface is marked as red, there maybe one of the following reasons:
If you press the [statistics] - Button, advanced information about the Manny internal communication are shown.
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There are statistical values of all Manny components. Critical
values are marked in red. In the example the processing time 1 of Jury_1 for messages from it's Chief is too high. Therefore the chief retransmits some messages 2. This leads to transmission delay 3. |
The statistic is very helpfull for insiders.
in general:
If there are many resend, but the processing delay is low, than
there are problems inside the network.
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If no evaluations found, only this information appears. |
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If there are judgements or evaluation
sheets found, a summary of the competition(s) is
displayed. If you don't want to continue, a additional popup appears. There you have oppportunity to save the old data first.. note: If the data are from today, then 'Yes' is assumed as default, otherwise 'No'. |
ATTENTION:
Never start a new competition without deleting the old data
first!
Judged evaluation sheets can't be modified, therefore you
won't receive any data for the new competition.
In most of all cases this application will be used together
with an organization office either Buero of Manny-Qt
or Petr Sveja.
If you choose 'manual import', you have to import the evaluation sheets an to
select a printer to printout the devaluated sheets later on.
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Finally you have to select the riding
area. Additional information and possible errors are described in chapter Tips und Trick . note: The connection can be changed at menu 'File' - 'Connect'. |
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supported formats: |
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note: If the import data contain competitors who does not take part at your competition, you can skip the import with the Cancel button. note: |
The judgement of the judging groups are displayed in the judging area 5. In the left grey part the exercise names are displayed. In the white part (right part) the judgement will be displayed. The current selected exercise is marked with a blue background.
The end of the allowed riding time will be signalized as follows:
In the middle right part 6
the possible keyboard shortcuts are listed. The shortcuts can be
switch by the 'Properties' - 'keyboard layout' menu.
Below this list the buttons 7 for
the following functions are located:
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Interruption of the judgement because of an injured
rider or technical defect. The competitor may continue at
a later point in time.
note: note: |
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The competitor is omitted with Attest. |
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The competitor is cancelled. |
Below this, the current resulting points 8
are shown, followed by 9
the names of the von Announcer
and Writer.
The name and date of the current competition 10 is shown in the
lower left corner. The connection state 11
to the associated judging groups, scoreboard and the organizing
office is signified in the lower right corner. If any connection
is shown in red, you should
inform your IT commissaire or follow the notices for errorhandling.
At the right side 12 are also some special buttons :
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Open the online regulation. A detailed description can be found HERE |
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Pressing this toggle button suppresses the
update of the scoreboard. This is useful if greater differences between the judging groups need to be discussed and corrected. |
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The coffee break toggle button
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The following table shows the keyboard shortcuts, depending on the selected layout.
| Action | Manny- keyboard layout |
Kuwett- keyboard layout |
| start the stopwatch (if stopped) | S | T |
| stop the stopwatch (if running) | S | P |
| Request finalization | A | A |
| finalize and publish result | F | Z |
| change competitor | W | S |
| visual signal red | R | R |
| visual signal green | G | G |
| allow correction | Menü - Chief | O |
note:
The keyboard shortcuts can be switch between Manny
and Kuwett by the 'Properties' - 'keyboard
layout' menu.
 At the beginning you can find the button for the Start of the clock 1. When the clock runs, this button will be the stopp-button. The description of configuration possibilities 2 you can find on the right. |
 When you stop the clock, you either have the option to continue the time 3 (e.g. after a fall), or reset the clock 4. |
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You have the following opportunities:
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In the upper part, the current state of all
areas are displayed.
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The application is able to detect significant deviations between the judging groups.
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The menu 'Properties' - 'Judgement Comparison' allow to configure if and when the check is performed. |
Significant deviations between the judging groups (percent, tactical extention, circle) are marked by color.
color criteria:
| Judgement | Alert | Warning | normal |
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| percent | 100 vs. 0 | 100 vs. 10 100 vs. 50 50 vs. 0 |
50 vs. 10 10 vs. 0 |
| cicle | n vs. 0 | different | |
| taktical | n vs. 0 | different |
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Choose menu 'Chief' - 'Correct'
and select the jury. note: After the correction, the jury need to finalize the judgement again. |
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Simply select the exercise, you want to have information about, with the cursor keys. Press the regulation button afterwards. |
The regulation browser will appear. This contains the whole descriptions. Normally the selected exercise should be displayed.
The exercise descriptions are display in the main part 1 of the browser. The buttons below 2 navigate the the general description and general devaluation section of the regulation.
The ComboBox in the lower left corner offers access to the UCI-protocols 3.
The upper part of the window offers browser functionality:
4 navigate forward/backward
5 full-text search
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It is possible to generate:
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Select the Menu 'Properties' - 'Jury'
oder 'Chief' - 'Jury'.
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The workflow configuration can be defined at startup of the application. It can be changed at any time by Menu Obmann - Arbeitsablauf.
If option 1 is activated, the dialog to enter the jury names will be opened at discipline changes. This option is active by default you should disable it, if you does not change the jury during the competition.
If option 2 is activated, the synchronization dialog will be opened every time you changed the competitor successfully. This option is disable by default you should activate it, if you want to synchronize the starts at the riding areas.
If option 3 is
activated, the dialog displaying the rider
names will be shown after the start signal (green visual
signal) was given. This option is active by default you should
disable it, if the chief is not responsible for the license
control.
note:
The new values get active for the next - not the yet active -
judgement.
 The Menu - Chief allow to send the sheet again.  |
possible error messages:
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Try to solve the problem and send the sheet again.
note:
If you print 'to file' the judgement will be stored as 'Wertungen/<startnumber>.pdf'
at the jury PC.
The whole judgement will be send from all juries to the chief. Continue normal operation.
Ask your IT-commisaire.
- finalize the judgment at the juries PCs and print the judgement there (see note for transmission problems above).
- exchange the PC and connect the new one to the network (wait until the connection is established)
- start the chief application and wait until all sheets are transmitted from the organization office
- Enter the printed judgement as 'hand evaluation' at the organization office (otherwise it aoun't be added to the ranking list)
At startup the application requests all necessary information in the required order. These are in detail:
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If no evaluations found, only this
information appears. |
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If there are judgements or evaluation
sheets found, a summary of the competition(s) is
displayed. If you don't want to continue, a additional popup appears. There you have oppportunity to save the old data first.. note: If the data are from today, then 'Yes' is assumed as default, otherwise 'No'. |
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Finally you have to select the riding
area and the jury number. Additional information and possible errors are described in chapter Tips und Trick. note: The connection can be changed at menu 'File' - 'Connect'. |
In the middle right part 5
the possible keyboard shortcuts are listed. The shortcuts can be
switch by the 'Properties' - 'keyboard layout' menu.
Below this additional information are displayed to inform about
necessary actions at the end of the judgement. (see How can I finalize the judgement ).
Below this, the 6 the names of the Announcer and Writer are displayed.
The Print-button 7
allows to printout the finalized judgement. Use this only, if the
network connection to the Chief is lost.
The name and date of the current competition 8 is shown in the lower
left corner. In the right corner 9
the
connection state to the chief is monitored. If the connection is
shown in red, you should
inform your IT commissaire or follow the notices for errorhandling.
To make devaluation at the selected exercise, click the relevant key of the devaluation. You can see the keys of devaluation at the right site of the evaluation-window. Currently the keyboard layouts of Manny and Kuwett are supported by MannyTraining.
To make several devaluations, press the respective key more times. You can see the count of the devaluation (or percent) in the respective column.
If you make to much devaluations and want to correct this, click:
In the following table you can see the keys, you have to use.
| devaluation | Manny-keyboard | Kuwett-keyboard |
| X | Q | F6 |
| wave | W | F8 |
| line | E | F10 |
| circle | R | F12 |
| percent | L | F4 |
| tactical | K | F2 |
| undo(additionally to the devaluation) | <shift> | <Ctrl> (Control) |
note:
To switch the keyboard-layout, click the 'Properties'-button in
main windows. Than you can switch between Manny and Kuwett. Of
course, the Manny keyboard-layout is preselected.
| You did devaluation for all exercises. You can finish the evaluation by clicking the button between ' '. | press '->' to finish |
| The evaluation is finished. You cannot do inputs anymore. |
evaluation finished |
| The request to finish the judgement. note: This message won't appear, if you already finished the judgement. |
Please finish judgement |
| The judgement was finalized by the chief. note: This message may also appear, if the chief switched to an other competitor. |
evaluation finalized |
If the evaluation is finished, no more inputs are possible!
If you need to correct something, the chief needed to allow the
correction.
Ask your IT-commisaire.
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The scoreboard always starts with 'Klara
Kunstrad' and the clock running. As soon as the chief application is running and a competitor is selected there, these data are displayed. |
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The only necessary input is the selection of
the riding area. Additional information and possible errors are described in chapter Tips und Trick. note: The connection can be changed by the context menu 'Connect'. |
The following command line parameter are available:
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In the upper left part:
The start number is also used as visual start signal (red/green indicator). In the upper right part, the 4 stopwatch is shown. The background of the watch changes to yellow 15 seconds before the end of the riding time. |
The next row 6 depends on the selected options. Normally the current points are displayed, but if evaluation is disabled, the name of the club is shown.
The 7
Progressbar (hidden by default) indicates the count of shown
exercises vs. submitted.
The lower area 8 at first the result of the last competitor is
shown. After 2 minutes the current ranking (next better) of the
current discipline is displayed.
As default the current points are displayed. The current point are calculated as submitted points minus the devaluations.
In case of increasing evaluation the points are
calculated as sum of all yet performed exercises minus the
devaluations.
In practice the points starts with '0'. After every performed
exercise the points are added and the devaluations are subtracted.
This leads to a increasing result - a positive judgement.
In case of Results with factors the current points are
scaled with the discipline depending factor. This option is useful
for all competitions, where all disciplines are calculated as one
(e.g. Weinpreis).
In the mode, the initial points are equal to the submitted once
(not scaled). After the first judgement or after the start of the
stopwatch the scaled points are displayed. The scaled points are
marked by a * before and after the value:
* 233,67 *
Additionally the ranking list in the lower area is also scaled and the next best over al disciplines based on the scaling is displayed.note:
The factors must be defined at the organizing office (see
'Options' - 'Factors').
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You have the possibility to:
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The style sub-menu allow to
change:
The application does not check, if the visual indicator (green/red) and the finalization (yellow) are still noticeable. |
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An additional logo, based on:
If you choose a logo condition, the application checks, if all necessary icon files are present. If not, you get a summary of the missed data. |
The dimension of the logo is automatically scaled (to the available space). Nevertheless the graphical file should have a dimension of about 200x300 pixel.
Attention:
The file name is searched case sensitive (upper and lower case
character).
note:
The logo files are NOT distributed, you have to copy them to all
scoreboard PCs.
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Attention:
If competitors of the same discipline starting at different areas,
the rank will be calculated wrong, accept you uses 'results with
factors'!
If an external application is configured, this will be started at
the beginning of the break. If the application terminates, the
default contents will be displayed.
All necessary configuration can be done in the following dialog. Don't forget to test!
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Select the data
(presentation, video) in the top row. If there are applications associated to this file type (operating system adaptation) they will be automatically added to the second row. Otherwise you can select the application with the [Browse...] button! |
In the last row all parameter, needed for the start of the application, can be entered. For wellknown applications these parameters are inserted automatically.
note:
The value %DATEN% is the
placeholder for the data. It will be replaced by the value of the
top row.
After all input is done, please test your configuration. Press
the 'try' button.
The application should start and does the right things.
Please wait 20 seconds until the application is stopped automatically! This is important to continue your competition after the break. (Otherwise the scoreboard won't appear)
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Sometimes the application
will be detected as terminated, even if it is still running. |
This could have the following reasons:
note:
If the data (input for the application) is not a single file, but
a directory, than:
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Initially the infoterminal starts as
displayed left. The maximum 3 areas plus the current ranking list are displayed. How you can change this, is described below. |
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The only necessary input is the selection of
unique ID. This ID is necessary, because up to three
infoterminals can run in parallel in your network. note: The connection can be changed by the context menu 'Connect'. |
The following command line parameter are available:
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You have the possibility to:
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The menu entry 'Content' allow the
assign a specific content to every window area. The
content will be assigned to the area, where you
opened the menu.
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Attention: If competitors of the same discipline starting at different areas, the rank will be calculated wrong, accept you uses 'results with factors'! |
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Changing the layout offers nearly
all possibilities. Moving the area borders (see picture left) allow to grow or shrink a part between whole display until zero. So you can hide a part or create a duplicate of the scoreboard. |
note:
All changes to the layout, content and coloring are stored
persistent for the next start.
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Therefore the
are available world wide. |
The overview of all currently provided live results can be found at: http://liveticker.hallenrad.de. You can select the dedicated competition.
The data will be update every 30 seconds.
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At startup of the liveticker you need to
enter your competition and a password. This ensure that:
Please wait until the response of your
connection request! note: |
In case of any problem with the internet connection, the
liveticker will be stopped. A error message will popup at
the organizing office.
So you can use the infoterminal as 'normal' display, or place it
far away to ensure the best receiving condition for the mobile
connection.
For a whole competition round about 50MB of data will be transmitted to the liveticker.
To provide the liveticker, a connection to the competition LAN is
necessary, as well as a connection to the internet. Therefore the
PC must have two physical network interfaces.
Most of the Laptops have a wired as well as an wireless network
interface. So this should not be a problem.
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The menu entry 'check internet' give the
information about the current settings.
If not all conditions are fulfilled, please follow the description below. |
1) Check, if there are two active network connections
If this is not the case, please check the cable, the Wifi password and disable the flight mode.
2) check the settings of the network connections
| competition | internet |
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If not both conditions are fulfilled, the liveticker won't work
correctly, because the internet is not or not stable reachable.
Try to disable these information - there shall only be a
IP-address at the competition interface.
If this is not possible, use a manual configuration.
In case of manual configuration, you has to ensure a unique IP address.
So do it this way:At the homepage
it can be found at 'documentation' - 'Tips zu Linux'
or. 'Tips
zu Windows'.
| error message | meaning | solution |
|---|---|---|
| The needed connection is
already in use. It seems the same application is already running on this PC! |
Most of the Manny applications can only run
once at one PC. In some very seldom cases an other application uses the same network settings like Manny. |
Cancel the connect, search the other instance of the application. |
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duplicated Application |
There is the same type of Manny application already running with the same parameters of 'connect'. | Check the parameter (area, jury) on both working positions and correct them. |
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The PC with IP-address ' xx.xx.xx.xx'
has also the name 'name'! |
Manny uses the hostname to
differentiate the PCs. Therefore the hostnames must be
different. note: After network problems this maybe a false detection. |
Rename one of the PCs, as described in Tips und Tricks. |
| No data from the external network interface! Either there is a firewall active or the network was disconnected! Please check the network and start the application afterwards! |
All Manny applications monitors the
netwerk. If there are no messages received from outside,
they assume a firewall. This message occurs also under the following conditions:
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check and deactivate the firewall, or allow the application to use the network |
| software conflict! There are running the following incompatible software versions: |
The applications at the
mentioned PCs have incompatible software versions running. The communication is impossible! |
Always install the same software version on all machines! |
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Chief-PC The chief application is mainly responsible for the selection of the competitor and to start the stopwatch. During the judgement no action is necessary. Based on this the Writer can also run at this PC, because the write is only active during judgement. You simply need to switch between the applications. Additionally the scoreboard can be connected, using the 'extended Desktop' and a data projector. Writer-PC The organizing office is only needed for the preparation and to distribute the data at the beginning of the competition. So it can run on the same PC as the Writer application. |
| Name | Function | IP-Adresse |
| Organizing Office | ||
| Chief area 1 | ||
| Writer 1 area 1 | ||
| Writer 2 area 1 | ||
| Writer 3 area 1 | ||
| Scoreboard area 1 | ||
| Chief area 2 | ||
| Writer 1 area 2 | ||
| Writer 2 area 2 | ||
| Writer 3 area 2 | ||
| Scoreboard area 2 | ||
| Chief area 3 | ||
| Writer 1 area 3 | ||
| Writer 2 area 3 | ||
| Writer 3 area 3 | ||
| Scoreboard area 3 | ||
| Printer |
Most of the private home used PCs/laptops using automatic
network configuration. So you should integrate a DHCP-server into
you network. So no network setup/configuration is required for the
borrowed PCs.
I myself use a old DSL router for this.
The DHCP should be configured as follows:
Attention:
Please restore the changed settings after the competition!
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