Meet Director – CompBuddy Help

Your screens

The meet director gets a bottom bar with five tabs:

Competition — today's task (this page).
Pilots — the pilot list, registration desk and messaging. See Admin → Pilots.
Status — live tracker status of every pilot. See Trackers.
Retrieve — retrieve requests and vehicles. See Retrieve Manager.
Feedback — the pilots' daily feedback. See Admin → Feedback.

Setting the task

The Task Settings card is for today's task. On a day without one, switch on Has a task first.

Import from a QR code

The quickest way: tap the QR icon and scan the task QR code from XCTrack or SeeYou (XCTSK format). CompBuddy shows what it read — type, race start and gates, goal deadline, finish altitude, goal type, distances and turnpoints — before you tap Import.

Some systems put the task name and description the wrong way round — tick Swap name / description if they look swapped.
Window open and close times aren't in the QR code; set them afterwards.

Edit by hand

Task type (Race to Goal, Open Distance, Speedrun), turn direction (left / right), goal type (cylinder / line), window open and close, race start and race end. Optimised and through-centres distances are shown for checking.

Import Task from QR dialogmd_import_qr.jpg

Publishing and making it final

Publish — tap the status line ("Unpublished — tap to publish"). The task appears on every pilot's Daily tab and pilots get a Provisional Task notification. Unpublishing hides it again and stops further task notifications.
Mark as final — confirms the task is set; pilots see Final and get a "Task is Final!" notification. This can't be undone.
Task board photo — take a photo of the physical task board. Pilots and the public can open it from the task screen.

Task Settings card — published / final / task board iconsmd_task_settings.jpg

Running the window

Each time below can be set to a specific time or triggered with Open Now / Close Now. Every change sends a push notification to all pilots:

Window Open — "The take-off window is now OPEN at 12:15."
Window Closed — "The take-off window is now CLOSED at 14:00."
Race Start and Race End changes.

Before race start, the window can be opened and closed as often as needed. Once the race has started, window and race end are locked; race start itself can still be adjusted.

Window Open / Close Now buttonsmd_window.jpg

Stopping a task

Stop Task records the stop time and notifies every pilot: "Task stopped at 15:20. Please go land safe." The task shows as Task Stopped everywhere.

SOS alarm

When a pilot triggers SOS on their tracker, meet directors and admins get a full-screen alarm that keeps ringing — for everyone — until someone taps Acknowledge — Stop Alarm. Dismissing it without acknowledging only closes it on your phone; it keeps ringing for the others. See Trackers.

Tracker features are still in beta. Never rely on CompBuddy alone for safety.

Schedule

Below the task you'll find the Today and Tomorrow schedule, the same events pilots and staff see.