wesselkroos / race-tv-multiplayer

Race TV Multiplayer is an open source F1TV desktop client for Windows with support for multi-monitor setups

Race TV Multiplayer

Race TV Multiplayer is an open source F1TV desktop client for Windows with support for multi-monitor setups.

This app is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula 1 companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing BV.

Installation (Windows)

1. Download the installer: Download the Race TV Multiplayer installer
2. Execute the installer. If a SmartScreen warning pops up, select 'More info' and click 'Run anyway'.

Optional steps if you have an NVidia graphics card and stuttering video playback:

3. Open the NVidia Control Panel, go to: 3D settings > Manage 3D settings > Program Settings.
4. Then add the Race TV Multiplayer app
5. Turn the program settings Vertical sync to Off and Max Frame Rate to Off
6. Press the Apply button and restart the app

For developers (Windows)

Installation

1. Install the LTS version of Node: Node (LTS)
2. Run in a cmd window: npm install

Optional steps for DRM support: (Required to play streams with Widevine DRM)

3. Install python 3: Python 3
4. Install the castlabs-evs package for Python: python -m pip install --upgrade castlabs-evs
5. Sign up for an EVS account: python -m castlabs_evs.account signup
6. For DRM support while develping, sign the electron.exe file: python -m castlabs_evs.vmp sign-pkg node_modules/electron/dist
7. For more info about EVS: https://github.com/castlabs/electron-releases/wiki/EVS

Start the app

1. run in a cmd window: npm start

race-tv-multiplayer's Issues

Attempting to sign in produces error on webpage: "Sorry something went wrong"

On the F1 TV login page within Race TV Multiplayer, I enter my username and password and it wont let me sign in. Tried numerous times. Haven't had an issue for the past few months. Works fine on the website in Google Chrome.

Extra player settings: Skip duration, Large skip duration

Open the Chromium DevTools (Console/Inspect element) via the F12 shortcut

For reasons i can only login using F1TV cookies (login session) and not the standard way of logging in (email:password).

I'm wondering if its possible to somehow open a Console (Inspect element - F12) and then edit the cookie? It appears that the F12 button and right clicking is not allowed on RaceTV Multiplayer. This works for example on RaceControl.

Let me know, thanks.

Extra player hotkeys

Volume: - / +
Select channel: Live / International / Tracker / Data
Select driver: 1 / ...
Skip large: Shift & Left / Right

Extra player controls: Speed, Large skip

Support for multiple layouts

Don’t have access to F1TV Pro content on the app

F1TV Pro subscriber here

normally I watch F1TV in my home country which supports F1TV Pro. However, I’m now temporarily in a country which has only TV Access so had to resort to VPN

I accidentally logged into the app without VPN, meaning that I could only see F1TV Access content. I tried logging out and in, closing and reopening the app to “reset” my visible content.

This didn’t work, as I could only see TV Access content and no TV Pro content. However, if I log in via the website, I get F1TV Pro content as usual.

Is there any way to “reset”/“wipe” the app’s memory to regain TV Pro content?

many thanks in advance

Remember selected channel per player