£100 for a 7" Water Proof Chartplotter.

[jlavery]

I've just got one, to play with and see what it can do. Quite impressed with its screen and build quality.

I'm interested to see if I can use it to display battery state from my Victron devices and Rolls Lithium batteries, and any other interesting displays I can think of.

Just taken it outside in the south coast sunshine. Impressive brightness and clarity. Photos below include Memory Maps For All running on it.

 

[Frankklose]

Its a Motorbike Navigation System Therefore IP67 should be ok . Brightness is 700nits which is sufficient. Only shortcoming is 2 Mbyte of memory.
There are many similar looking motorbike navigation systems, but only one of them has Android13 and build in GPS. If you want to buy one look if it has a GPS antenna. The majority is for Android Auto which works only in conjunction with a mobil phone. None of the normal navigation software works with Android Auto. Therefore most offered sets can not be used for boating.
I own one as well

 

[KompetentKrew]

I wish I could say that I was organised and motivated enough to do this, but someone needs to write a sail steer type app for Android and instrument displays are obsolete.

 

[jlavery]

I wish I could say that I was organised and motivated enough to do this, but someone needs to write a sail steer type app for Android and instrument displays are obsolete.

I've recently spent £800 on two (2nd hand) Raymarine I70 displays for my system upgrade.

This unit would fit nicely where they are, and could display all sorts of data for a lower price.

While I'm not going to rip the I70s out. I'm still tempted to put together a prototype app to see how easy it might be to take NMEA off the network. Already nearly there with my rewrite of AngelNav for Android, but have had rather a lot of other calls on my time recently.

 

[st599]

Better to run it as a web app with reactive formatting. Layout on Kip is fully customisable.

 

[jamiepyoung]

I installed one of these recently as well, having seen it on a couple of youtube channels:

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It's got pretty good visibility. It is a bit slow - not sure I'd want to rely on it as a chartplotter, but I plan to use it to control by autohelm and view the victron app etc. For that, it seems great.