VITO Active Trace
user's manual

Introduction

Welcome to VITO Active Trace, a specially designed application to watch your sports progress by recording your tracks and storing all kinds of statistics for such sport activities as mountain skiing, skiing, snowboarding, biking, cycling, roller-skating, running.
Depending on the type of activity you perform Active Trace gives you specific information on your achievements such as speed, acceleration, altitude and many, many more... as well as it records and displays your tracks.

Activation

Downloadable version of VITO Active Trace is fully functional and has to be purchased and activated for further usage after 14-day trial period. Please purchase VITO Active Trace at vitotechnology.com

To activate:

· connect your device to Internet

· start VITO Active Trace

· go Menu > General > About

· press Activate button, type into the empty field the activation code from the email you received from VITO Technology after purchasing VITO Active Trace, choose “I have Internet” and press Activate button below.

In case you can't connect to Internet from your pocket PC, activation will take more time:

· start VITO Active Trace

· go Menu > General > About

· press Activate button, type into the empty field the activation code from the email you received from VITO Technology after purchasing VITO Active Trace, choose “I have no Internet” and press Activate button below. Carefully read instructions on the screen. After you've performed the necessary action you will receive an e-mail with the necessary instructions for completing your activation.

Note: as you can see on-line activation is much easier than the off-line variant, which can take considerably more time. We recommend you on-line activation.

If you have any questions or problems regarding the activation process, please contact our support at registr@vitotechnology.com

GPS Settings

Before Active Trace can start recording new tracks it is necessary to set a GPS connection.

GPS basics

If you have a built-in GPS receiver you may make GPS settings in the Active Trace. Start up the program, choose Menu>GPS settings>Scan. The program starts searching and it identifies the built-in GPS receiver. there appears window with a question "GPS found on # port: @******. Use it?" You may continue using the program by pressing Yes button or continue the search of another GPS receiver pressing No. When you found the receiver, tap Yes to continue using the program.

BlueTooth GPS

To use VITO Active Trace with Blue Tooth GPS you may need to make some additional steps before starting-up.

1. Before starting the program, turn BT radio on.

2. Check that BT sees your GPS in BT Manager.

3. Tap the option Create outgoing Port.

4. Start up the program.

5. Choose Menu>GPS settings>Scan.

6. It recognizes the connection with COM Port, there appears window with a question "GPS found on # port: @******. Use it?" You may continue using the program by pressing Yes button or continue the search of another GPS receiver pressing No. When you found the receiver, tap Yes to continue using the program.

Manual GPS Setup

If you want to set up GPS manually, choose window Manual and set # of your com port, and baudrate of your GPS receiver. And tap Ok button.

Interface

Track Recording

After you have accepted the GPS connection you will be automatically taken to the recording of a new track. It starts recording a track which has a name year-month-date. If you record several tracks a day the name will be year-month-date_number of a track.

Above the track there are current speed and height indicators.
Below the track there are time and covered distance since start.

Over the track you can see 5 flashing indicators displaying the current status of your movements:
· receiving a new coordinate point from GPS receiver
· standing still
· slowing down / acceleration
· uphill / downhill
· passing by the most recent pushpin (new lap)

To create a new track click Menu > Track > New.

To pause or resume recording the track, tap Menu > Track > Pause/ Resume.

Your tracks will be saved in the Google Earth (see screenshot leftwards) format (.kmz files) on the largest storage card you have (or if there is no storage card then it will be saved on the main memory card) in the folder My Documents / ActiveTrace.

Note: Before recording a new track make sure the satellite icon in the upper right corner is of green color that indicates connection between your GPS receiver and satellites.

You may put a pushpin only while recording a track. To do this tap Pushpin in the bottom left corner of the screen. You may enter the name for a pushpin and tap Ok.

Track view

To view a track, tap Menu > Analyse. There appears a list of recorded tracks.
Note: You can rename or delete any track (except the track that is being recorded at the moment) from context menu in the track list.
Choose the one you want to have a look at and press Select.

The Track view displays your track and allows you to draw specific info about different parts of your trip. It can also display different parameters (speed, height, time) at a specific point of the trip when you click on the track.

There is a blue bar at the top of the screen with the name of the track you are viewing in the moment.

On the left side of the screen there is a color bar indicating either the speed or the altitude. If it indicates the speed of your movements there is an icon with an image of a running man, if it indicates the altitude, there is an icon with an image of mountains. To change it you need to tap an icon with an image of a running man or mountains. OR you may tap Menu and tick Speed or Altitude.

To zoom in and out use + and - buttons at the bottom of the screen.

There is also a scale indicator at the bottom of the screen.

While recording a track the points are also recorded. This points are:

1. The beginning of a track.

2. Pushpin.

3. Crossing the pushpin.

4. Disconnect.

5. Break.

6. The end of the track.

If you go Menu> Points, then there will appear a blue bar at the bottom with the names of these points. By clicking arrows you can move from one point to another.

If you want to see icons of these points you should tap Menu > Show icons.

Another possible option in the track view mode is to make selection of a part of the track to analyse the statistics of the selected part. First of all, put a tick Menu>Points, then tap Menu> Selection> Start selection, after that choose the point you want to start the selection with (it should appear in the blue bar at the bottom of the screen), then tap again Menu> Selection> there you will have a choice what to do next:

Start Selection (you will start selection from the beginning);

Keep Selection (you will keep choosing the part of the track from the marked point);

Remove Selection (you will stop making selection);

Deselect all before (the part of a track before the selected point will be deselected);

Deselect all after (the part of a track after the selected point will be deselected).

The selected part will be colored, the deselected part will be of grey color. After you have made a selection you may tap Menu> Statistics, and there will appear information about the selected part of a track (speed, distance, time, altitude, etc.).

Statistics view

Statistics view displays all the detailed info on your trip:

Speed

Distance

Time

Altitude

Angles

To see the point of your track when you were moving, e.g. with the max speed, click twice on the corresponding value. This feature is available for all values to show your performance at a certain trip point.

Note: you can have all the indices displayed either in a metric, imperial or nautical measuring system through Menu (Track Recording Mode) > General > Units> Metric (or English or Nautical).

Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions on VITO Active Trace, please email us at support@vitotechnology.com.