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Quick Start

Install Braking Lab Capture, connect your account with a browser code, confirm your telemetry folders and record your first iRacing or LMU session.

This guide takes you from the installer to your first uploaded session.

Requirements

  • Windows 10 or later (64-bit)
  • iRacing and/or Le Mans Ultimate installed
  • A Braking Lab account on Plus or Ultra — create one if you do not have one yet

Installation

  1. Download the Capture installer (.exe)
  2. Run the installer
  3. Open Braking Lab Capture from the Start menu

First-Run Setup

The first time you open Capture, a short setup runs. Next moves forward and Back returns to the previous step.

1. What Capture does

Three short screens explain the product. Capture reads your iRacing and Le Mans Ultimate telemetry and uploads it to your account. When you leave a session, it splits the laps and measures every braking zone. The last screen introduces the Race Engineer and History. Click Set up Capture to continue.

2. Connect your account

You authorize Capture in your browser, so your password never goes through Capture.

  1. Click Get a code
  2. Capture shows Your code and how long it is valid
  3. Open the sign-in page with the button below the code. Opening the page copies the code for you
  4. Authorize the code in your browser
  5. Capture greets you by name and shows which account your laps go to

If the code expires, click New code. No account yet? Use Create one.

3. If your account is on Basic

Capture is part of Plus and Ultra. A Basic account stops at this step. Click See plans to change plan, then I’ve changed my plan to check again. Use another account signs you in with a different account.

4. Folders and terms

Capture only reads the folder where each simulator saves telemetry. It does not touch the install or your setups.

  • Telemetry folders — Each simulator shows Detected when Capture finds its folder. If it cannot find one, click Choose folder. You can also do it later in Settings.
  • Start with Windows — Turn it on so Capture is already running when you drive.
  • Terms — Accept the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy to continue.

When you continue, Capture looks for your older telemetry.

5. Ready

The last step confirms that Capture lives in the system tray. Closing the window keeps it working in the background. It also says how many older telemetry files wait in the Queue. Click Open Capture to finish.

Older Telemetry

Capture processes new sessions on its own from the day you install it. Files from before that are not processed automatically. They wait in the Queue, and you process them when you want. See The Queue and Issues.

Your First Session

  1. Start iRacing or LMU and drive some laps
  2. Leave the session — The simulator writes the telemetry file
  3. Capture picks it up — It splits the laps and measures every braking zone
  4. The session uploads — It goes to your Braking Lab account in the background
  5. Open it — Use Analyze in Capture, or My Laps in the web app

Verifying It Works

  • Home shows your latest session and what is waiting to upload
  • History lists the session with its laps
  • Settings → Sync and data shows the sync status

Next Steps