Basketball Clocks

The Basketball Clocks App provides a complete Basketbal Clock Console on a iPad or iPhone.

It separately provided synchronised Game Clocks and Shot Clocks that can be connected to an external display.

It also provided standalone Game and Shot Clocks for use during training.

The App has a number of modes of Operation:
1) Master Clock Controller Mode.
2) Slave Game Clock Mode.
3) Slave Shot Clock Mode.

The App supports adjustments up or down of the Game Clock, Shot Clock to 10ths of seconds.

A water polo game typically needs a Master Clock Controller, a Game Clock Display and two Shot Clock Display.

These can be provided by 4 instances of the App, each running on a separate device.

Support Game Clock and Shot display on a external displays.

The Clock Console (Master Clock Controller) supports the following actions:
(1). Starting the clock
(2). Stopping the clock.
(3). Resetting the Shot Clock to 24s
(4). Resetting the Shot Clock to 14s
(5). Resetting the Game Clock within a quarter.
(6). Time Adjustment
(7). Configuring the Clock with the following attributes:
(a) Away Team Name
(b) How Team Name
(c) Number of 'quarter' periods.
(d) Quarter Duration
(e) Quarter Time Duration
(f) Half Time Duration
(g) Normal Shot Clock Duration (nominally 24 seconds)
(h) Short Shot Clock Duration (nominally 14 Seconds)
(i) Number of Extra Time Periods
(j) Duration of Extra Time.
(k) If Game Clock is displayed on Shot Clock Display.

The App uses the Local Network to communicate between the devices to synchronise the clocks.

it uses the Network API and Bonjour for communications, it supports up to 9 clusters of devices on a local network(ie subnet, connected to a WIFI router), with the clocks being independently synchronised within each cluster.