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SportIdent cards

Audience: Event organisers and operators working with SI cards.

What Manager does with SI cards — which ones it supports, what it reads from them, and how to handle edge cases.

Status: Stub — not yet written. The low-level binary protocol lives in web/.ai/SPORTIDENT.md and documentation/SportIdent_Documentation.md; this page will stay user-level.

What this page will cover

  • [ ] Supported SI card types (SI5, SI6, SI8, SI9, SI10, SI11, pCard, SIAC, etc.)
  • [ ] What Manager reads from a card (punches, start, finish, check, times)
  • [ ] How cards with no owner are handled
  • [ ] Rented / shared cards
  • [ ] Common problems — unreadable card, wrong clock on the SI box, card overflow
  • [ ] Physical care and longevity tips (batteries, cleaning)