VTrackToolkit ManualVersion 2.1

Product Overview

Safety Precautions

Installation Environment

PC Specifications

If the performance of the PC or NIC does not meet the recommended specifications, the performance of the camera may be affected.

Components

The following items are included with the Launch Monitor. Make sure they are all present and accounted for.

Required Tools

The following items are needed for the Launch Monitor installation (not included in the package).

Laser Indicator Overview

Calibration Board Overview

Before You Mount

Check the Ceiling Level

With the Laser Indicator: position it in both directions and check the angle.

Ceiling Height and Offset

H = floor to ceiling. L is measured from the center of the hitting area towards the screen.

Install the Ceiling Bracket

1. 1

   Measure the distance (H) from the floor to the ceiling

   

2. 2

   Find the center of the hitting area

   

3. 3

   Draw a reference line on the floor perpendicular to the screen

   

4. 4

   Mark at a distance of L mm away from the previous mark in the direction of the screen

   Refer to the table above for the distance according to ceiling height.

   

5. 5

   Draw a mark on the ceiling perpendicular to the mark on the floor

   

6. 6

   Drive the screw into the center of the bracket

   Make sure the bracket faces the screen as indicated by the direction marked on it.

   

7. 7

   Secure the ceiling bracket to the ceiling using seven screws

   Check that the ceiling is level and keep the bracket parallel with the screen. Before fully tightening, check the alignment as described below.

   

Install the Launch Monitor

1. 1

   Place the Sensor so that the arrow direction faces the Screen

   

2. 2

   Partially loosen the four screws

   The Launch Monitor comes with 4 screws already inserted. Ensure that all four screws are partially loosened.

3. 3

   Hang the Launch Monitor on the Ceiling Bracket with the 4 screws

   

4. 4

   Press down so that the Bracket and Sensor are in close contact

5. 5

   Tighten the 4 screws to the Launch Monitor

   

Connect Power and Ethernet

1. 1

   Connect Power Cable to the Power Supply Adaptor

   

2. 2

   Connect the Ethernet Cable to the Sensor and the PC directly

   

3. 3

   Turn on the Launch Monitor power switch

   When the power is on, the red power switch light turns on and the green Ethernet LED blinks.

   

4. 4

   Check the Indicator Status

   

Before You Start

Install VTrackToolkit

1. 1

   Download the Installer

   On the PC, use the link above to download the installer file, Update_Stable.appinstaller.

2. 2

   Open the downloaded Update_Stable.appinstaller file

3. 3

   When the App Installer window appears, click [Install]

4. 4

   When the installation is complete, start VTrackToolkit from the Windows Start menu

Updates

VTrackToolkit checks for a new version automatically when it starts, so it only needs to be installed once. The update status is shown by the Update icon in the Top Bar, and the installed and latest versions are shown in Support → About.

IP Settings

1. 1

   Search for “View network connections” in Windows

2. 2

   Click on “Properties” of the Ethernet which is connected to the Launch Monitor

   

3. 3

   Select “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)”

4. 4

   Click on “Properties”

   

5. 5

   Set the IP address and subnet mask manually

   IP address 172.16.1.100, subnet mask 255.255.255.0. Click on “OK”.

   

Advanced Settings

1. 1

   Search for “View network connections” in Windows

2. 2

   Click on “Properties” of the Ethernet which is connected to the Launch Monitor

3. 3

   Click on “Configure”

   

4. 4

   In the advanced settings, change the 3 values as shown below

   Jumbo packet 9014 Bytes, receive buffers Maximum, transmit buffers Maximum. Click on “OK”.

   

Allowing Firewall Access

When you launch VTrackToolkit for the first time, the window below appears so that the firewall rule needed to communicate with the sensor can be added. It shows “Network Command Shell” and “Verified publisher: Microsoft Windows”.

1. 1

   Click [Yes]

   

Check the Connection

After the settings above, open VTrackToolkit and confirm each item below.

The VTrackToolkit logo appears at the far left, followed by the five screen tabs. The selected tab is highlighted. On the right, you can select the club, hand, and player for your shots, show or hide panels, and change the theme. Status icons appear at the far right.

Club

Tags your next shot with the club you are using. The selected club determines which club image appears in the impact panels. Impact Heatmap and Dispersion use this selection to group shot statistics by club.

Hand

Selects a right or left-handed stance. For left-handed players, the impact graphics are mirrored and the direction letters described in Reading the Numbers are reversed, because the system always reports measurements in a right-handed coordinate system.

Player

Each player has a separate shot history and can create a list of favorites by pressing the Star icon. Use the Pencil icon to rename a player or the Bin icon to delete one. Click Add player to create a new player profile.

Panels

The panel counter shows how many panels are currently visible. For example, Panels 10/10 means all ten available panels are displayed. Select the checkbox beside a panel’s name to show it, or clear the checkbox to hide it. Click Reset layout to restore the default arrangement, including the twelve metric tiles in the Shot Metrics panel.

Theme

The application includes several visual themes. VTrack is the default theme, while VTrack Classic matches the appearance of the previous software generation. Glass and Projector are designed for golf bays that use a projector. Basic offers a simple design for easy readability.

Status Indicators

The far right of the bar carries up to four small icons. Each turns red and gains a tooltip when it has something to report, so a fully operational system shows a quiet bar.

Update stays hidden while there is nothing to report, so when the system is fully operational, the bar shows only the network and sensor icons. While the sensor is starting or restarting a ring spins around its icon. Hover any icon for the reason in words.

The colour of the ready light on the sensor itself is set in Options → Play.

Moving and Resizing

Panels on Another Monitor

Any dashboard panel can leave the main window and be placed on a different screen — a second monitor, a TV beside the bay, or the projector running the simulator. You can move as many panels out as you like and put each one wherever it is most useful, for example the swing and shot replays right on top of the simulator picture where the player is already looking.

Move a Panel to Another Monitor

1. 1

   Set Windows to Extend these displays

   Connect the second monitor (or projector / TV) and press Win + P → Extend. In Duplicate mode both screens show the same picture and there is nowhere to move a panel to.

2. 2

   On the Dashboard, press and hold the mouse button on the title bar of the panel you want to move

3. 3

   Drag the panel outside the main window

   While dragging within the dashboard, release the panel over another panel to swap their positions. To move it to another monitor, continue dragging outside the main window.

   

4. 4

   Release it on the other screen

   Keep dragging past the edge of the VTrack window, across to the other screen, and release the mouse button where you want the panel.

   

5. 5

   Size the panel

   Drag the grip in its bottom-right corner, or press ⛶ to make it fill that screen. Repeat for any other panel you want to move.

   

Bring a Panel Back

Shot Metrics Tiles

The panel along the bottom displays the shot metrics you choose. By default, it shows twelve metric tiles, with (12 / 12 selected) in the header. Click the ⛶ button to open All Metrics, where you can choose which metrics to display using a full-screen selection view.

Filters

Columns

The Columns menu turns individual columns on and off, with Show all and Hide all at the top.

Favorites

The star column on the left marks a shot as a favorite — click the star on any row to turn it on or off. Favorites are kept in their own storage area and are never removed automatically, so they survive the retention limit. There is no bulk action: the storage limit is a few gigabytes per player, meant for a handful of shots you want to keep rather than a whole session.

Actions

Sessions

Sessions group shots within a player. Create one with + ADD SESSION on the dashboard History panel; rename or delete from the session row. As with players, one session must always remain — the last one cannot be deleted, but any other one can, including the first session the application created for you.

1. Network

Pick the network adapter the sensor is wired to and connect. When the link is up the adapter shows Connected with its link speed, and the line under the list reads “Sensor is connected.”

2. Calibration

Place the calibration board with the ↑ SCREEN ↑ mark towards the screen. In both camera views the board must sit inside the dashed yellow box and run along the vertical line. Then press Start Calibration.

If the board is not placed correctly, calibration stops with a message. Fix the board and press Start Calibration again.

3. Ball Check

Place a ball in each cell of the grid and press Start Ball Check. This confirms that the sensor finds a ball everywhere in the hitting area, not just at the center. Each ball it finds is circled in green.

4. Ready / Tee Area

Define the area the sensor watches for a ball at rest (Ready) and the tee position (Tee). Each can be Fixed — a region you draw once — or Non-fixed, which lets the player set up anywhere inside the view. Drag the red corner handles to size a fixed area, then press Apply Area.

Play

Replay

Both cameras play back in sync, showing the same moment from two angles. To use a phone as a camera, connect it to the same Wi-Fi network as the PC and scan the QR code displayed here. Video quality chooses between Compressed (about 5 MB per shot) and Original, which keeps the camera frames untouched and uses roughly ten times the space. The setting applies from the next shot onward.

Unit

Metric and Imperial are fixed sets. Under User-Defined you can change the rows that offer a dropdown — speed and distance — while the rest have only one sensible unit and are shown as plain text.

Environment

Storage

About

Three blocks sit on the left. Version gives the application version, build commit, LPGDLL version and sensor firmware — quote these when you contact support. Application Update shows the installed and latest versions and offers Check Again. System Information reports Windows version, display resolution and monitor count, GPU, and which network adapter the sensor is on.

Report Issue

The report collects logs and diagnostic details automatically. If the sensor is not connected you can still send it — the serial number and sensor IP are simply left blank.

Licenses

Open-source components and their license texts.

Driving Range

The centre view. It draws the ball flight over a range photograph and labels the shot as it lands.

Flight Path — Top and Side

Two cross-sections of the same flight: Top looks down on the left–right deviation, Side shows the height profile. Every tick keeps its number and the unit is printed once at the end of each axis, so the grid stays readable without repeating m on every label.

Impact Point

Where the ball met the face, in millimetres. Impact H is positive toward the toe, Impact V positive toward the crown. Smash Factor (ball speed ÷ club speed) sits in the same panel because it is the quickest check on whether the strike was centred.

Club Angle

The side-on club picture, with Launch Angle, Attack Angle, Loft and Spin Loft in the four corners. See Reading the Numbers → Spin Loft for how the last one is derived.

Club Face & Path

The down-the-line picture, with Face to Path, Face Angle and Club Path. These three carry direction letters instead of a plus or minus sign.

Ball Spin

The panel shows Back Spin, Side Spin, Total Spin and Spin Axis, with a video of the ball rotating to show its movement. If the sensor cannot determine the rotation, the panel displays NO SPIN DATA. Estimated values appear in yellow-orange color to distinguish them from directly measured values.

Impact Heatmap

Strike dispersion on the face, accumulated for the selected club only — the club is named in the panel title. The footer reports the sample it was built from, with the shot count, how many were left out, and whether the last shot registered an impact at all (23 Shots · avg +5.0 / −3.5 mm). Too few strikes and it says low sample instead. The heatmap reads the most recent shots for that club rather than the whole session.

Dispersion

Landing pattern for the selected club, with carry and side given as a mean and a standard deviation (160.0 ±3.5). The shot count at the bottom shows how many shots were used to calculate the ellipse. The side value includes L or R to indicate left or right, consistent with the rest of the application.

Shot Replay and Swing Replay

Shot Replay plays the sensor's own capture of the strike. Swing Replay plays the two replay cameras side by side; the CAM1 CAM2 dots in the header turn green once frames are arriving from each. Cameras are assigned in Options → Replay.

History Panel

A live list of the current session's shots without leaving the dashboard.

Clicking anywhere on a session bar selects it — you do not have to hit the radio button. Rows load fifty at a time as you scroll, so a session with a thousand shots opens immediately.

Direction Letters

Club angles are written as an unsigned number followed by a letter, because a plus or a minus sign does not tell you which way the face was pointing.

A value that rounds to zero is printed without a letter — 0.0° — because there is no direction to name.

Side Spin

Side spin also carries a letter, but in front of the number: L for spin that curves the ball left (a draw or hook for a right-handed player) and R for spin that curves it right. The letter leads here so that the figure matches the Ball Spin panel, which has read that way since before the club angles gained their own letters. The History table is the exception — it prints side spin as a signed number, the same as the CSV.

When a Value Is Missing

A dash, “-”, means the sensor reported that figure as unusable for this shot. It is never a rounding of a real number. This matters because several club figures legitimately sit near -1.0°, so a hyphen is the only unambiguous way to say “not measured”.

Typical causes are a miss-hit, a putt (loft cannot be derived), or a strike outside the measurable range. Other values from the same shot stay valid and are shown normally.

Measured and Predicted

Spin can be measured directly or inferred from the ball's flight. Inferred figures appear in yellow-orange on the dashboard, and the History table carries a Spin Type column reading Measured or Predicted for every shot.

Spin Loft

Spin loft is the angle between where the face points and where the club is travelling at impact, and it is the main driver of how much spin a strike produces. VTrack derives it in the application:

Spin Loft = Loft − Attack Angle

It is shown as a dash when either input is unusable, and also when the subtraction comes out negative — that cannot happen on a clean strike, so a negative result means the attack angle reading was bad. There is no upper cut-off; wedge spin lofts in the sixties are normal.

Metric Glossary

Shortcuts

File Locations

VTrackToolkit ships as an MSIX package, so everything it writes goes into the package's own LocalState folder rather than straight into C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local. All paths below start from this root:

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Packages\02ce737d-b4f8-4bbb-92b2-1355681ff1e8_qbntr2denpnae\LocalState

Quick Fixes