Demo environment

We have created the Copernico demo environment so that you can practise at no cost and become an expert, because, as the popular saying goes, “practice makes perfect”.

If you have access to Copernico, you have access to the demo environment.

1. How to access the demo environment

You can access this environment in two ways:

• Modifying the access URL: simply change app to demo in the Copernico access URL.

https://tuempresa.app.copernico.cloud/

https://tuempresa.demo.copernico.cloud/

• From the warning when creating a race: every time you click Add competition, Copernico reminds you that a free test environment is available. Click Go to test environment to open the demo environment or Continue to create the competition in the real environment.

Once you have accessed it, the behaviour is similar to the app environment. You can create and configure a race, start it, receive readings, etc. Therefore, you can time a sample race from the start to the publication of results.

2. Features of the demo environment

The main features of the demo environment are:

• No credits are charged for its use.
• It does not resize. This means that if you try to time an event or race with many entries, it is very likely to slow down, as the servers will not adapt to this increased need for resources. It is an environment for practising with 10, 20 or even 50 participants, but it is not an environment for timing.
• Every night the content created during the day is deleted, so the next day you will have to start from zero.
• Live does not work. You can set up Live, but it will not be shown in the apps or on the web.
• Some plugins are not available: Commentator 2.0, Organizer and Workflows.
• You can visually recognise the demo environment because it is orange, instead of the classic Copernico blue.

3. Simulator

In the demo environment, inside a race, the Simulator button in the button column on the right lets you practise without timing devices. This button only appears in the demo environment.

1. Generate participants: choose the Event to create participants in, the Nationality (used to generate random names and surnames), the Amount of participants to generate and, optionally, enable Use Tag Sequencing to use the race’s configured tag sequencing.
2. Generate readings: generate readings for All participants in the event or select I will manually select the participants myself, setting the Fastest time (the simulation’s winner time) and the Slowest time (the simulation’s slowest participant time).

4. Practising with manual times and with devices

If you only want to work in the demo environment to prepare the documents for a certain race, our recommendation is that you do not connect the timing devices to send readings, as it is not necessary. In addition to the Simulator, you can manually create times in some participants so that they are processed and you can see the rankings.

If you want to receive the readings from a Timingsense timing device, you must create the race in our cloud (Sportmaniacs) and connect the timing devices to this race.

If these are your first steps with Copernico, ideally you should create a race in the cloud called “test / demo” and every day connect the same race by importing from Sportmaniacs.