Release v0.2.0 - Automatic messages · Drwut-really/simhub-race-notifier

What's new

Messages can now send themselves. Pick a trigger and Race Notifier posts on its own — no button press.

Trigger	Fires when
A flag comes out	The flag you pick is raised
I enter the pit lane	You cross into the pit lane
I leave the pit lane	You rejoin the track
I beat my best lap	You improve on your own session best

A message still works on its bound button as well — you don't have to choose.

Download RaceNotifier-v0.2.0.zip below.
Open the zip and copy RaceNotifier.dll into your SimHub folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\SimHub\
Restart SimHub and enable the plugin when prompted.

Upgrading from v0.1.x is safe: your existing messages load unchanged and stay button-only until you give them a trigger.

Per-message session filter — Practice / Qualifying / Race / Other. New messages default to Race only, so if you're testing in practice, tick Practice or nothing will send.
New variables {lap}, {position} and {laptime} (e.g. PB! {laptime} on lap {lap}, P{position}).
Four iRacing-only flags — caution / full-course yellow, and the 10-to-go, 5-to-go and one-lap-to-green countdowns. SimHub's portable telemetry has no equivalent for these. No extra plugin needed; they're inert in other sims.
Separate on/off switch for automatic messages, so you can silence every trigger without touching your button messages.
Replays and spectating are muted by default, with individual opt-ins on the General tab.
Troubleshooting properties for a dashboard: TriggerArmed, SessionKind, LastTriggerMatched, IRacingRawActive.

Messages are now capped at 10, and all ten button slots are registered at startup — so a message you add is bindable straight away. The "restart SimHub to finish adding buttons" banner and the restart button are gone.
Automatic sends are at least 5 seconds apart, whatever the per-message cooldown says. Button presses are unaffected.
{flag} now names the flag itself when the game gives no label for it — a meatball in iRacing used to render as none.
The variable list moved to the Help tab as a proper table.

Each of these exists because the obvious alternative was wrong on a real rig:

Getting into the car doesn't send "entering pit", even though the car is sat in the box.
Resetting or being towed to the pits doesn't either.
Leaving the pits always counts, including your first lap out.
Your first timed lap of a session doesn't fire "I beat my best lap" — it needs a previous best to beat.
Triggers fire on the change, not the state. A yellow that stays out sends once, not every second.

Triggers only work on the machine running the sim — SimHub reads telemetry from local shared memory.
There is still no red flag in SimHub's portable telemetry.

Full detail in CHANGELOG.md.