The OnSight-Timer provides rock climbing competition organizers with a way to display a countdown timer that gives competitors clear indications as to the time left in transitions or climbing. It includes all the visual and audio cues required by the USAC rule book.
Users enter a transition time (optional) and a climbing time. These phases are repeated until the organizers stop the timer. Audio and visual cues notify climbers of the following:
- Beginning of transition (if used)
- Beginning of climbing
- One minute remaining in climb time
- Ten seconds remaining in climb time
- End-of-time
Download the latest release here, and follow the installation instructions.
If you run into security dialogs on the Mac, see Mac security instructions.
The main application screen is shown below:
Click the menu in the top left corner, and set the transition time and climbing time. Clicking in a field allows you to set the time as MM:SS (minutes:secones).
When ready to start, click the play button in the bottom right corner, and the transition/climb cycle you've set up will repeat. Note that clicking play at any point will restart the timer!
Click the stop button at the bottom right when you want to end the timing. There is no pause and restart from where you left off.
To use just a climbing phase (no transition), enter 00:00 for the transition time.
The OnSight Timer can be used on Mac OS X and Windows.
Copyright 2014 by Malcolm Alexander. OnSight Timer is released under the MIT license.
OnSight-Timer is open source and welcome's contributions. See Contributing for more info.
Thanks to Connie Lightner for documenting the rules, and to Kevin and Marcey Rader-Rhodenbaugh for making the audio recordings.