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Labradar makes a Bluetooth app. That connects to the unit where you can
control it and read the results at a distance.
Since I am a handgun shooter, it's not that important for me.
Because I can, as I shoot, I can easily reach all the controls and read the unit.
However, if you're a benchrest rifle shooter, things are going to be different.
As you know, the way the Labradar works best is when the
muzzle is as close to the unit as it can be. But if you're a benchrest rifle
shooter and you've got a short bench to work with, you would be over here and
that muzzle could be sticking way out here. This will be very difficult, take a
shot, look at the results or change things.
Or setup a new shot series. And so just the logistics of using it with a
short bench and a long gun can make it difficult to use. This is where the
Bluetooth app comes in handy. But what we're going to do at this point, is we're
going to go back inside, and show you how to use the Bluetooth app.
Installing the Labradar mobile app
on your smart device is no different than installing any other app.
And starting it is the same. You just press it.
The startup screen of mine is .. generally two sections. The top section is showing
the known Labradar units it knows about. And in the bottom section, shows
where data can come from, from that unit. The section that says flash,
this is referring to any shot data stored in the Labradar unit's memory.
And not on the SD card.
Now, if you have an SD card installed, as you know the Labradar will not
store it in flash memory, it actually stores it on the card.
This long identifier, is identifying the SD card for that unit.
Each of these has a little trash can.
So if you press it, it's just asking you if you want the
mobile app to ignore that source, yes or no. I'm just going to go ahead and say no.
Now you cannot start the Labradar unit from the app.
That you still have to start .. from the unit itself.
You'll get the start up screen. Then it will display the latest shot series.
So this point .. I'm going to .. just tap this unit identifier.
And you'll see it'll start searching.
And then you can also see where starts downloading data.
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And while the data is here, and it'll stay here even when you turn off the unit,
I don't know of any way to download the data from your phone to your computer.
I still download the data from my SD card.
If you look across the top, you'll see five menu options.
Last Shot. Will display the last shot of the current series.
Which in this case is series 3. And has 27 shots. So it should be showing shot 27.
And there we have it, series 3 shot 27.
The second menu option is Series List.
It lists all the series it found from the unit. As you can see, we've got
three here, we've got three here.
The next menu option is Series Detail.
So it will show the details of that series, which is series three.
If you see these left right arrows ...
it's going to download the data and then get it for series two. There is series two.
I'm going to go back to series three.
The next menu option is Shots List.
This lists all the individual shots for that particular series.
In this case its series three.
And then Shot Details. That will give you the details of each individual shot.
In this case it's shot 27 because that's the last shot in the series.
Now the app does have a flyout menu. I have a little bit difficult time.
I try to touch .. the icon to get the menu.
I'm usually a bit more successful if I ... swipe to the menu.
The menu options are Device Manager. If you press that it'll take you
back where you can select device or add a device.
Next option. Series List. That's no different from the ones we've seen before.
Next option on the flyout menu is Settings.
Now, there's two sets of settings.
One is the mobile app itself. Where you can have the app display the
data in different units of measure.
For example, you can set it to meters .. for Distance.
Velocity. You can set it to meters per second.
For Weight it can be grams.
And Energy can be in joules.
Now for the Labradar unit itself ...
And here's the settings for the actual unit itself.
You can give it an alias. Sometimes known as a nickname.
Here you can specify the units of measure.
You can set which channel.
The power mode.
Your trigger. Whether it's Trigger or Doppler.
I always use trigger. I don't need to use Doppler.
These are your set distances. Dx 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
And your other preferences.
This one, the preferences call it Velocity Range. Here, they call it Weapon Type.
But it's rifle, handgun, archery.
Then you have the Arm Time.
And then you have the Projectile Weight.
Now why the app allows you to set the display units of measure to be different
from the unit. I'm not entirely sure. I guess if you're shooting internationally,
and you don't want to change your unit, you can display the amounts on your
mobile app using more international units of measures.
I'm going to go back to
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the series. I'm going to go into Series Detail. And if you look,
V0 average is in meters per second.
Up here it's still in feet per second.
Now what I want to do. Is I'm going to go back, I'm going to do it off camera,
I'm going to go back and reset the application
to be in sync with the units of measure on the unit.
And then we'll go in more detail with this.
You'll see these two icons at the top.
The one that looks like a recycle icon, allows you to refresh the data.
So if somebody's actively shooting, you want to download it to your device ..
and refresh it. The plus icon allows you to create a new shot series.
It doesn't ask you to confirm, it just creates it.
So you can see new shot series four here and four is up here.
I don't need series four, so I'm going to go ahead and delete it. So you select it ..
and you make sure only the ones you want to delete are selected.
And then you press the Delete icon. Asks you to confirm it. Yes.
We're back to three series on the app and on the unit itself.
What I want to show next is arming the unit.
You can see up here. The units actually in Review mode.
It's not in arm mode.
But if I press this.
It goes into Arm mode and is transmitting radar.
Now, I intentionally set the time out on the radar to ten seconds ...
Which is why it started blinking as soon as I armed it.
But I set it to ten seconds. Because I wanted to demonstrate that ..
if you're out on the range and you're testing,
and the units on the other side of the bench, and it disarms.
You just re-arm it. No big deal.
If you want to disarm it, you can do it here.
And what I want to do is go into the series detail.
This is series three.
V0 average velocity is 930.
Which matches right up here.
Highest 941, 94[1].
Lowest 915, 915.
Spread is 26, 26. Deviation 6.1. Shots 27.
If I scroll, I'll get the average velocities for my Dx 1 through 5,
and a graph.
If you look at three options down here.
It's really velocity, kinetic energy and power factor.
It doesn't say, velocity, it's displaying
the unit of measure velocity.
Doesn't say kinetic energy.
It's displaying the unit of measure kinetic energy,
which is foot-pounds force.
If you remember a Labradar Excel workbook,
the leftmost columns are velocity.
The next set of columns is kinetic energy.
The next column is power factor.
Then we had projectile weight and time and some other information.
This is how the app organizes that data.
So this was velocity data for the series.
If I press this,
I'm now in the kinetic energy data for this series.
Shows me foot-pounds force for the average of all the shots at a zero distance.
And show the highest, lowest and kinetic energy for the different ..
distances I set at Dx 1 through 5.
I press PF.
This is the power factor average.
And it summarizes some velocity and kinetic energy ..
information, gives me the bullet weight.
I don't compete in a sport that uses power factor.
But if you're at a tournament where you have to measure
your power factor, the way you could do it is, you would create a series.
Have one competitor shoot their shots
and then look at the power factor average.
Then for the next competitor, you'll create a new series.
Have them take their three shots. Then you look at their average.
Create the next series and so forth.
And you can do all of that from the app.
So that completes the overview of the Labradar mobile app.
I hope this information was useful to you. And thank you for watching.
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