The control panel tab is the first and main tab of the controller.

At the top right of the iRacing-TV window you will see a few things relating to the status of iRacing and iRacing-TV. In the screenshot to the right you will see that the current status is “RACE” - “StateGetInCar” - 38040 - green light - red light.

This is the session name that is given by iRacing. Typical session names are “PRACTICE”, “QUALIFY”, and “RACE”. There might be others.

This is the current session state. This will be one of the following:

• StateInvalid (you should not ever see this)
• StateGetInCar
• StateWarmup
• StateParadeLaps
• StateRacing
• StateCheckered
• StateCoolDown

This is the current frame number of the live telemetry or playback of the recording. The data comes in at 60 frames per second.

This is the first of the two indicator lights. If this light is red, then the iRacing game is not loaded and running. If it is green, then the iRacing game is loaded and running, and iRacing-TV is receiving data from the game.

This is the second of the two indicator lights. If this light is red, then the director is not enabled. If it is green, then the director is enabled and is automatically managing the iRacing camera.

At the very top of the control panel tab are five target text boxes. They are:

• The target car number
• The target driver name
• The target camera group
• The target reason
• Camera switch timer

The target is the car and driver that iRacing-TV is trying to focus the iRacing camera on. If this car is not in the game (indicated as “OUT”) then iRacing will tend to switch to the scenic camera, or freeze the current camera.

The target reason would be one of the director rules, or “manual” if the camera is being manually controlled by you.

The target camera group is one of the camera groups in iRacing, such as “Blimp”, or “TV1” or “TV2”. Some camera groups have only one camera (Blimp) while other camera groups have multiple cameras (TV2, etc.)

The camera switch timer indicates how much time is left on the current camera group before it will be allowed to switch to another camera group.