Settings

Settings take effect when you Save. Some - the voices, volumes, devices, warning thresholds and units - only load when Gary starts, so if Gary is running and you change one of those, it restarts itself. Mid-race, that starts Gary’s fuel average for the session again. Everything else applies without a restart.

On the front page

Setting	What it does
Game	iRacing or Le Mans Ultimate
Always on top	Keeps Gary above your sim window - handy on a second monitor
Push-to-talk button	Map… a button on your wheel or button box. Hold it while you talk, or tap it and then talk - both work. No button mapped = Gary doesn’t listen. See First run
Listen without a push-to-talk button	Hands-free always-on mic. Off by default - it acts on anything it hears
Wake name	Talk to Gary by saying his name - see First run. Off by default. You can change the name
Microphone / Speaker	Which devices Gary listens on and talks through
Garage61	Connect signs you in through your browser (Gary never sees your password); Laps from picks whose laps you chase - All drivers or one of your teams. iRacing only - see Chase a Garage61 lap
Voice recognition	Modern uses your Windows default mic; Classic lets you pick one. If commands feel unreliable, try the other

In the Settings window

Voices on or off

Setting	What it does
Crew chief calls	The crew chief’s own calls. Off leaves the spotter on its own - questions you ask by push-to-talk are still answered
Spotter calls	The spotter. Off leaves the crew chief on his own. “Spotter on” brings it back for the session

You

Setting	What it does
Your name	Used on the greeting and urgent calls (“Diego! Box this lap.”). Blank to skip it
Let the crew chief swear (occasionally)	Exactly what it says

Captions

What the crew chief and spotter say, as text on screen - for drivers who are hard of hearing, race with the sound low, or just missed a call.

Setting	What it does
Caption the crew chief	Shows each crew chief call in a small box over your sim
Lines shown	How many recent calls the box shows, 1 to 5. The newest is at the bottom
Stays up for	Seconds before the box fades. Long calls get a little longer
Background opacity / Text size	How the box looks. The text is always solid
Caption the spotter	Not shown, In the crew chief overlay (in yellow), or In their own overlay with its own position
Position crew chief overlay / Position spotter overlay	Shows the box so you can drag it anywhere, on any monitor, and drag its right edge to resize. Click Done on it and the spot is kept. Reset position brings it back to the top-left of your main screen

While you drive, the boxes are click-through and never take focus from the sim. If a box was on a monitor that’s no longer connected, it comes back onto your main one.

Spotter

Setting	What it does
Spotter “still there” repeat	How often the spotter reminds you a car is still alongside, in seconds. Lower is more insistent

Fuel

Setting	What it does
Fuel warning laps	When to warn, as laps of fuel left. 4,2 warns twice
Auto fuel margin	Spare laps added on top of “fuel to the end” and automatic fuelling. Fractions are fine - 0.5 or 0,5
Let Gary set my fuel at every race stop	One tickbox per sim. When you turn into the pits in a race, Gary sets fuel (or Virtual Energy in LMU) for the end plus your margin, and tells you what he set. Say “fuel margin two laps” (or “half a lap”, “a quarter lap”) to change the margin for one stop
Track Virtual Energy	LMU, experimental. Reads a separately installed community plugin for extra energy detail - turn off if it misbehaves

Tyres (LMU)

Setting	What it does
Tyre wear warning	Wear percentage that triggers a warning
Tyre cold / hot threshold	Temperatures for the tyre temp calls

Calls

Setting	What it does
Sector reporting	End of lap - one rundown after each lap. Live, every sector - each called as you finish it. Live, notable only - live, but quiet unless it’s worth hearing. Can also be changed by voice
Braking zone quiet threshold	How hard you have to be braking, as a percent of full brake, before Gary holds routine chatter. Lower means he shuts up more readily
Track temp change to announce	How big a swing is worth mentioning
Temperature unit	Celsius or Fahrenheit
Distance unit	Metres or feet, for spoken calls

Voices - see First run.

Setting	What it does
Crew chief voice / Spotter voice	Any voice, either role. Each one is described in the dropdown (accent, male or female). Download selected voices fetches ones you don’t have yet; Clear unused deletes ones you’re not using. The spotter list also has any spotter voice packs you’ve installed
Better voice understanding (Whisper)	When Gary doesn’t catch a push-to-talk command, a second listener on your PC has another go, so more ways of saying things work. Downloads a 78 MB model the first time. Off by default
Radio voice effect	Makes the crew chief sound like he’s on the radio. Urgent calls are never degraded
Radio click and squelch on crew chief messages	Radio click on crew chief messages, with a choice of start sound. Untick it for no click at all - the radio voice effect stays
Radio click and squelch on spotter calls	The same for the spotter, set separately
Radio effect on spotter voice packs	The spotter’s click and squelch when it’s using a voice pack, in place of the setting above. Off by default - most packs already sound like a radio
Crew chief volume / Spotter volume	0 to 200%. Above 100% makes the voice louder with the loudest peaks softened rather than clipped - useful if Gary is lost under the iRacing spotter

Startup

Setting	What it does
Start minimized to tray	On by default
Automatically start when the app launches	On by default - Gary connects without you pressing Start
CPU cores Gary can use	Tick the cores Gary - and his voice - may run on, to keep him off the cores your sim is using. Nothing ticked lets Windows decide. Numbered as in Task Manager; on a Ryzen with two core dies, the second half of the list is the second die. Takes effect when you save

Sharing (iRacing) - see Pit data & privacy.

Setting	What it does
Share pit stop data	Pit stop timings, so estimates get better for everyone
Share GPS data for tracks that need it	One clean lap of GPS at tracks still missing corner data
Share tyre wear data	One row per stint, to build a tyre wear model

Developer

Setting	What it does
Log performance timing	Writes how much work Gary is doing to the log once a minute. Leave off unless asked
Show the test checklist button	A small always-on-top checklist window, for testing
Log window: show only the voice transcript	The log window shows just what Gary heard you say (or ignored, and why) and what Gary and the spotter said. Useful when a command isn’t working. The log file still has everything

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