HowTo

Getting stats of a Race

Start Live for Stats by clicking on its icon
No window will be opened, but the Live for Stats inactive (red) icon will appears in the Task bar.
At this state Live for Stats is inactive, because LFS wasn´t started yet
You can open the context by right clicking on the symbol.
Now you can start Live for Speed. (see the blue focus). If you first want to change some settings click here.
On the first start you have to select LFS.exe.
Browse to the folder you extracted LFS to and choose LFS.exe (double click it or press Open)
LFS will be opened after that.
Live for Speed starts in a window or in full screen (how your settings are) and a message appears saying InSim was started (InSimInit) with a port you have chosen/the default one.
After a moment a orange Live for Stats icon appears. That means LFS was started, but InSim wasn´t started yet. If you don´t start LFS from Live for Stats you would find the text to type into LFS in the description (everytime the right port)
Another a moment later the icon went green. This shows that Live for Stats is ready to capture your race! If the icon stays orange see here
Drive your races in LFS like you do it without this program. You have no restrictions
At the end of one or more races close Live for Speed. In the subfolder "xmlstats" of your Live for Stats path you will find the new export file(s).
Now you can do what you want with this file. Using it in another program, parsing it yourselve or the best way is to use the website you can get by clicking on "LFS report" (focus). The script on the page generates a nice looking report in the html format.
But first you have to Upload the file(s) you want to use for generation of the website
Type in the url of the qualification- and the race file (the qualification file is optional). You will get a website. You can link this URL on your own page. The xml file have to be on the URL you typed in as long as you will use this report.
You can change the laps on one graph (the positions of the drivers in the race) with the number in the second textbox. So if the number is smaller then your driven laps you get more then one graph.
The report looks like this
You can close Live for Stats by clicking on "Close" in the context menu or let it stay there for the next race (it don´t needs much resources).

Change Settings

First open the settings dialog

Live for Stats settings

Then you see the dialog with two tabs.
The first is important. But the second offers an interesting feature

main settings

ftp settings