New releases of owlcms, controlpanel, owlcms-cloud and tracker

[Jean-François Lamy]

A set of releases was done today.

The main driver is the introduction of a new owlcms module called owlcms-tracker

The idea is that OWLCMS is the on-venue, IWF-compliant module, and that I don't touch

much anymore except when the rules change.

All the other wishes are to be done by customizing owlcms-tracker.  Tracker is modular based on "plugins". Find someone that is tech savvy, and they can use AI to say "copy this plugin, but do this instead".  Yesterday I took the team scoreboard plugin and added a different scoring rule by typing 3 sentences to an AI agent.  You can do it too. New fancy video overlay? tracker.  New fancy formatted document?  tracker. New scoreboard or attempt board? tracker.  Controlling vMix or OBS? tracker.  

But even though the tracker (and the tracker-core engine behind it) are free, I will also do things for money.  There are extensions, also done with tracker, to do a full IWF-style start book and result book.  These are offered as services, for now (they might become available to buy in the future).

So the new releases:

• owlcms 64 can drive tracker.   And it includes a bunch of other fixes and improvements.  See the Release Notes
• new control panel version 3.0 that makes it easy to start owlcms, tracker and arduino devices if you built some
• the new tracker (which gets installed from the new control panel)
• updated version of the https://owlcms-cloud.fly.dev site to put tracker up as the replacement for publicresults, now being kept as legacy until it is eventually retired.

[Gwen S Chamberlin]

Hey - A quick question untrelated to this below - which is really cool by the way ! 

 

Which scoring system (SMHF, Q, etc) do you recommend?   

 

We will be running a WSO Championship - Open, Youth, Junior, Masters.  So medals Open, MAster, Junior, Youth.  And we will also be calculating a Grand Master Male and Female award.    And Team Awards.  

 

Thanks.  
 

Gwen Chamberlin
+1 773 580-8599

 

 

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[Jean-François Lamy]

Quick answer:

- If what you want is something that looks like an adjusted total:  Q-Points for Open, Q-Youth for under 20, Q-Masters for Masters.

- Q-Youth should be split in at least two awards -- because comparing 13 year olds to 17 year olds is not the same "youth"

- SMHF is no longer used by IMWA or UWMF

Looking ahead.

- IWF is in the process of approving a different type of score called GAMX that has a much broader and sounder statistical basis, AND is comparable between men and women

- In other words, if your GAMX is better than someone else's you are a better athlete relative to the world "top people" that are used as reference.

- In GAMX, an outlier can actually be "above" the "top people" reference and not skew everything like what happens with Sinclair

- GAMX are comparable between men and women. You could have team competitions with 2 men 4 women in team A and the opposite in team B and just add the GAMX

- There are several GAMX other than the one IWF is leaning towards using.  There are GAMX for youth (considering age and bodyweight), and for Masters, and one for the

general athletes (based on the long-running USAW Opens) as opposed to world elites.  For the WSO championships you would be using this latter one.

OWLCMS version 64 supports all of them.

[Gwen Chamberlin]

Me again.  

You have  spacing problem in the weigh in forms in windows version 64.0.0

Team bleeds into BW box. See attached. Both templates the same 

Gwen Chamberlin

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On Jan 20, 2026, at 6:34 PM, Jean-François Lamy <lamyjean...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Guillermo Andrés López]

Hi

The issue can be resolved by increasing the width of the affected column. Expanding this column provides sufficient horizontal space for the content, preventing the table from encroaching into the BW (Body Weight) box.

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[Jean-François Lamy]

The quickest fix is to do shrink to fit on the column.   Which is what I will probably do.

Team names go from 3 characters in international competitions to War-and-Peace length in the USA.
Or make that Gone-with-the-Wind.

   

[Hans Bjørnar Hagenes]

The easiest workaround is to modify the template you are using (and rename it), example below

I have more advanced templates with mapping Club Longname to 3 char country/club code and visa versa