Incoming & Outgoing Feeds

Connecting Analyzer to live incoming and outgoing feeds lets the coder share real-time data with coaching staff, players, performance analysts, other match stakeholders and the Data Warehouse. This article shows how to set up both, together with the Receiver application.

Those connections feed Analyzer's own dashboards and the custom dashboards analysts build from Cricket Australia's Data Warehouse, so staff can explore player statistics, match scenarios and historical trends when planning and preparing for a series or a major tournament.

In this article

• Incoming live data feeds
• Outgoing data feeds
• Step 1: Connect Analyzer to the Fairplay cloud
• Step 2: Connect Receiver to the Fairplay cloud
• Where to go next

Incoming live data feeds

Analyzer can take live data from these providers:

• Hawk-Eye
• Virtual Eye
• Collaborative Coding
• CricViz

Connect to the incoming feeds

1. Open Analyzer and select your match and innings to open the match coding interface.

   

2. Select View in the toolbar at the top left, then Incoming Data Feeds.

   

3. The Import Live Data from Cloud window opens.

   

4. Select Manage Feeds, tick the feeds you need and select OK. We strongly recommend always ticking Collaborative Coding, so another operator can overlay the coding or add events.

   

5. Tick Enabled. Data starts flowing once the connection is made. Then minimise the window so you're ready for the first delivery.

   

Connect well before the start. Analyzer updates other matches before it finds yours, which can take a while if it hasn't connected recently. Connect early so data arrives from ball 1.

Choose which Hawk-Eye and CricViz data to import

You can choose which fields Analyzer imports from Hawk-Eye and CricViz. Select the yellow … button next to the feed to make changes.

Collaborative Coding

Collaborative Coding lets another user, on site or remotely, edit the coding or add events, live or after the match. See Collaborative Coding for how to set it up.

Outgoing data feeds

The outgoing feed sends live match data and video from Analyzer to Fairplay's cloud service, so other stakeholders can follow along in Analyzer and Receiver. There are two steps:

Step 1: Connect Analyzer to the Fairplay cloud

Check the Broadcast settings first. Analyzer can only send data and video clips to the cloud if the Broadcast settings in the Options tab are ticked, as below. Without them, Outgoing Data Feed won't appear in the View menu.

1. In the match coding interface, select View at the top left, then Outgoing Data Feed.

   

2. Select Connect. Data starts flowing to the Fairplay cloud, and the window shows CONNECTED. Minimise the window so it doesn't get in the way of your coding. If you don't select Connect within 30 seconds, Analyzer connects automatically.

   

If Analyzer won't connect (the window shows NOT CONNECTED), check that:

• you're connected to the internet
• the Broadcast settings are ticked in the Options tab
• the server address, username and password are correct (see Step 2).

Step 2: Connect Receiver to the Fairplay cloud

1. Open Receiver. Check that the Server Address, Username and Password are correct, and that Download, Directly and Avoid overwriting local edits are ticked. Then select Connect.

   

2. In the Select Feed window, highlight your match and select Select.

   

3. Data starts to appear, which means you're connected to the Fairplay cloud.

   

Don't skip the tick boxes. If Download Video isn't ticked, the video won't be available to others. If you're working with a third-party coder and Avoid overwriting local edits isn't ticked, the third-party coder's data will overwrite any changes made at the venue or by a collaborative coder during the day's play.

If the connection fails or you can't see your match, check the following and try again:

• You're connected to the internet.
• The server address, username and password are correct.
• The coder has already connected Analyzer to the Fairplay cloud (see Step 1).

Where to go next

• Collaborative Coding: setting up a second computer to over-code and quality-assure the data.
• Coding Process: the standard coding requirements for every delivery.
• Understanding the Cricket Analyst Suite: what Analyzer, Receiver and the other tools do.