Two Questions

There are several reasons you get the time of day:

1. you didn't have the event open when the start went ... in which case once it is open you have to apply the most recent start time by selecting it from the drop down and clicking the greyed out stop light

2. you opened a second copy of the event (I believe this will cause the second copy to not get the start ... I could be wrong on this one but seems to me). Same thing for applying a start time.

3. the start time never arrived on the primary computer -- if this happens with radio lynx and you realize immediately (should always watch for a good start for this reason) you can hit the recall button on radio lynx BEFORE the sensor is bumped or another start goes and it will resend the time -- unfortunately it has a memory of one, so if you realize later ... lost.

Problem solving:
1. look at the prior event for the start time ... do you have another time after that? Apply it.

2. apply a hand time and set the filter to get the correct time even though not FAT

One of the best things added in 8.x of FinishLynx is that all start times while the event is open are recallable now. (Scrolling of the image is pretty nice too).

The auto break is used to stop the clock (or pause it) based on either your cameras internal photo-eye or beams if you have them setup. Its nice to use the finish on sprint races but calibrate it so it stops .01 slower so people dont complain. Pause is nice for the leader of distance race. Just capture each lap and the camera will pause the clock.

We checked the "finish" box but the timer did not stop when the first finisher was captured. Any idea why or what do we need to do in addition to checking the "finish" box?

Thanks in advance.

Hit alt+p to put it in pause mode (need to reset for every lap) or alt+f to put it in finish mode.

Will we need to hit Alt+F for every race or just once at the start of the meet? and will this then stop the running race clock when the first place finisher is captured?

Yes it will stop it ... so I use Alt+P which stops it just for a couple of seconds. It also just does it once and then leaves that mode ...

And yes you do it each time for each event or lap you want it to do it for. It changes the mode from "running" right of the clock to paused or finish.