Open Road Ace: GPS Rally Timer

Fixed a freeze when tapping Pre-arm on some 6.7-inch iPhones, including the iPhone 14 Pro Max. The app could lock up and then stick on the launch screen every time it opened. A built-in ORA RTK option fills in the correction settings for you and switches to the nearest ORA base station during a run, when one is online. More reliable finish timing, including finishes timed by distance when a gate crossing is missed, and better handling of receiver clock glitches. RTK corrections now stay in order on a busy connection, and a refused caster login is reported as a login problem instead of a dropped connection. NORC finish lines now sit at the official distance.

Fixed a bug where leaving the app during a two-leg event and coming back could put you on leg 2 with no course loaded, which made the run impossible to arm. The app now refuses to start a run it cannot score, and names the missing piece instead of doing nothing when you tap start. Coming back between legs, the pre-arm card shows how old your saved leg is, so a session you left yesterday is obvious at a glance. Run logs now record the correction source and the age of the corrections, so an RTK dropout can be diagnosed from the log.

Two-leg events survive an app kill. Reopen within six hours and leg 2 picks up with your carry-over. The pre-arm screen keeps its state the same way. Flying start and the gate never fired? Tap Start. ORA seeds the run from where the car is and scores what's left of the course. The confirmation tells you what it seeded. RaceBox Mini and Micro each keep their own slot now, so one can't grab the other's connection. Each receiver's antenna offset is used for its own crossings, and the ARM screen shows the offsets in play. The finish readout no longer collapses in the last half second. It holds through a GPS dropout and shows a real precision estimate. RTK: the phone now pushes the receiver config and checks every ack. It confirms corrections actually reach the receiver, and it recovers a receiver that lost its fix. Receivers reconnect after the app is backgrounded. Fixes: "Missing gates" on the ARM screen, finish average speed, Settings connection status. Most of this came out of three days of test runs this week.

Race timing now trusts your GNSS receiver's own clock, so results stay accurate even when your phone's clock is off. Steadier pacing delta through brief signal gaps, dual-source GNSS support, and BYNAV receivers auto-configure on connect. Adds a support page link.

Dramatically smoother, more accurate real-time pacing — your on-screen delta now matches reality right to the finish.