Connect digital scales to Smoothcomp
We have a partnership with Vetek that manufactures professional scales and we have built support for reading the information from the scale and display this in Smoothcomp. With a barcode/qr scanner and the Smoothcomp ID feature you can have a very professional solution up and running very fast.
Here are the steps to take to connect and display the athletes weight on a TV screen.
Hardware needed:
- Supported scale (contact us for a quote on a professional scale from Vetek)
- QR and/or barcode scanner
- Computer with USB-A port (or use an adapter)
- TV connected to the computer to display the weight to everyone (optional)
Steps to take:
- Download our scoreboard application and install this on the computers you will use for the weigh-in.
- Connect the scale to the computer using the provided USB-A cable adapter and turn on the scale with the power button.
- At the top of the screen you have a notch containing two buttons; one for Scale connection and one for Tapper Watch (under development) connection. For this tutorial, click the Scale button.
- That will open up a modal with some information, a link to this very article and the button Connect with USB. Click this button.
- If the scale has been connected correctly to a port on your computer, you should have it under devices here (the device name will probably be some rubbish like below). If you have multiple port used on your computer and get several rubbish devices here, try unplugging the other ones, only leaving the scale. Either way, click the device, and it should connect.
- When you've successfully connected the scale and closed the modal, the Scale button will be green like this, indicating a successful connection. From here you're good to go start weighing in people!
- Now go to the weigh-in tab and place the marker in the box for user ID to scan the Smoothcomp ID.
- When the scanner finds the user id the results will be displayed in a list. Press the scale icon for the division you want to weigh them in for.
- In the window that pops up the weight will be displayed from the scale together with a lock weight button. Press lock weight to lock the weight and then save together with an optional comment.
- The weight can be displayed on the TV like in the video at the top. From the application you will create a spectators window and drag that window to the TV. This is especially important in Olympic and professional sports where the weigh-in is public for an audience.
