Appendices
Glossary
The exact meaning of the words used in NEXUS, IGNITION and this manual, from "simulator" to "use".
This manual uses a single word per concept, the one you see on screen. Two different words therefore always designate two different things.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Administrator | NEXUS account that sees all the company's centers and has access to all features, subscription and Stripe included. See Administrators and users. |
| Assetto Corsa | The racing game that IGNITION starts on each simulator. |
| Booking page | The public page where your customers buy online and receive their QR code. See Publish your booking page. |
| Booklet | Product that gives several uses on a single QR code. See Sell a booklet. |
| Center | A physical location where your simulators are installed. A company can have several. |
| Challenge | Competition over a given period, with its own leaderboard. |
| Customer | The person who buys a session, a booklet or a pass on your booking page or at the front desk. |
| Default weather | The weather played when the player does not choose it, marked with the star ☆ in Weather. See Choose the weather offered. |
| Driver | The player as they appear in the leaderboards, the challenges and the Drivers page. |
| Free access | Mode in which the simulator opens without a ticket: each player enters their username and drives for the default session duration. Status Free access in Simulators. See Use a simulator in free access. |
| IGNITION | The software installed on each simulator. It reads QR codes, starts Assetto Corsa and communicates with NEXUS. |
| Lap | A timed lap of a track, recorded for the leaderboards. |
| License inactive | Status of a simulator that is on but refused by Omnisim: its license is deactivated or the subscription is no longer active. See A simulator appears offline. |
| NEXUS | The online management software, opened in a browser: simulators, sales, QR codes, leaderboards, settings. |
| Owner | The single administrator who can transfer ownership of the account and receives the subscription emails. |
| Pass | Product valid until a date, with a maximum number of sessions per day. See Sell a pass. |
| PDF ticket bundle | PDF file that groups several separate QR codes, each valid on its own, issued from the QR Codes page. Not to be confused with the booklet, which fits in a single QR code. See Print a PDF ticket bundle. |
| Plan | Your Omnisim subscription: the single All-inclusive plan, which includes every feature. See What the All-inclusive plan includes. |
| Player | The person playing at the simulator. |
| Powered off | Status of a simulator switched off by the energy schedule in ⏻ Shut down mode. Unlike an Asleep simulator, it does not switch back on by itself, unless the BIOS is set up to. See Schedule shutdown and wake-up. |
| QR code | What unlocks the simulator. It carries the credit purchased: a session, a booklet or a pass. |
| Role | The set of rights of a user: Front desk, Technician, Center manager or Read only. |
| Scheduled sleep | Scheduled overnight shutdown of the simulators, with automatic wake-up, set in Settings › Energy. A sleeping simulator no longer receives any command. |
| Screensaver | What the simulator shows when nobody is playing: a video, an image, or the Omnisim visual (Default mode, and as long as nothing has been set). Its settings are in the Screensaver block of Settings › IGNITION. |
| Session | Product that gives a single use. |
| Session duration | The play time granted by one use. |
| Simulator | The physical gaming machine (PC, screen, steering wheel, pedals and QR code reader), and the row that represents it in NEXUS, on the Simulators page. |
| Standby | The simulator's screen is off, but it stays reachable from NEXUS. Standby button on the Simulators page. |
| Stripe | The online payment service. You connect your own Stripe account to NEXUS to collect payments. See Connect your Stripe account. |
| Time remaining | The unplayed time of an interrupted use, kept on the QR code for the next game. See How a QR code's credit is used. |
| Use | One game played on a QR code. In NEXUS: Number of uses. |
| User | NEXUS account limited to certain centers and to a role. |
See also
Get help from Omnisim and open remote access
Write to the Omnisim team from NEXUS and, if needed, open your simulators to it for a limited time — then extend or revoke that access.
What the All-inclusive plan includes
Omnisim is subscribed to as a single plan, All-inclusive, which gives access to every feature and every NEXUS page.