AIS transponder with WiFi ?

[Moodysailor]

I have had the quark for 4 years and have never got it to work properly. Now the USB socket has broken and the box is sealed so i cannot get in to fix it

So is there an alternative that is AIS receiver, USB powered and sends AIS on Wifi to my tablet? The reason for receiver rather than transponder is that I have a working Raymarine AIS transponder. I would like a back-up receiver. I would also like AIS on Navionics as a back up hence wifi
Thanks

Not USB powered, but 12V DC is the Vesper XB-8000. Had zero issues with ours. We had a 12V 4G router on board and set it up as gateway so the signal could be sent to any device on board that was connected to the ship's WiFi network. Had it on two phones, a tablet and laptop at the same time.

We also used the USB connection as a backup so we had hardwire and WiFi connection, we hooked all our existing Raymarine equipment up to it so had all the instruments as well as AIS.

 

[Tim Good]

I've got a German product by Weatherdock. It's not cheap but it does a lot. You can specify exactly what you need. For us we wanted an AIS unit that worked via WIFI and wired to the plotter, has a point for an external alarm for the CPA, an integrated splitter to share the NHS antenna and also its own integrated GPS chip. Oh and an AIS SART button.

The fact it had a splitter, worked on wifi and had its own GPS chip, meant it took me about 10 minutes to install.

AIS Class B Transceiver (SO & CS) - Weatherdock English

 

[zulloboy]

Can you give a simpleton's guide to how you added the TwinYakker?

Simpleton hereby presents his guide: the Twin Yakker takes two wired NMEA0183 inputs - a 4800 baud one from the GPS, and a 38400 baud one from the AIS. It then squirts out all this data to the netbook/tablet/whatever via wifi. It is very easy to set up: Yakker
It needs a 12V feed as it is not USB powered.

Cheers, Graeme

 

[tudorsailor]

Daisy 2 AIS receiver is USB powered. The support guy is most helpful. There is an additional serial out so I will put a wifi card with 6 pins straight into the Daisy2
Fingers crossed it all works. I will feed back in a couple of weeks when my relatives from the states drop it off
TS

 

[zulloboy]

Daisy 2 AIS receiver is USB powered

That's true, but only if you use the USB port for a wired connection to a laptop. If instead you want to connect the dAISy output to a Yakker wifi, you'll have to provide a separate 12V feed.

Cheers, Graeme

 

[DAVAIS]

Quark AIS receiver requires a good quality 5V power otherwise you could have a short receive range.

 

[Graham_Wright]

No idea about integrated kit but I have a Yakker NMEA to wifi bridge (NMEA Wi-Fi and wired converters by YAKBITZ from UK Distributor, AVES Marine Ltd | eBay) fitted to my Matsutec AIS transponder. Works fine with Navionics and has the added advantage of giving Navionics the a gps position fix for my wifi only iPad.

I too have Matsutec but (as usual) the instructions are cryptic! They allege that GPS is available on two dedicated leads. My 'scope detects nothing (significant) from that output. Do you derive GPS info from the 38400 baud output?

 

[Refueler]

I finally succumbed to creating a WiFi network on my boat ......

Onwa KP39a Plotter outputting to :

NMEA2WIFI - 2x INPUT NMEA 0183 TO WIFI MULTIPLEXER WITH SEATALK INPUT SUPPORT | eBay

supplying data out (GPS ... AIS) to WiFi and USB ...

My Acer One notebook - Seaclear and Android Tablet with OpenCPN

Total cost INCL Onwa .... under 400 quid.

The NMEA to WiFi / USB unit is now available with 4 outputs .....

 

[TSB240]

I too have Matsutec but Do you derive GPS info from the 38400 baud output?

On my Matstutec I only had the choice of either the ais output at higher baud rate or gps at lower baud rate. I used the higher rate and confirm that it provides both ais and gps sentences. Our yakker converted this to wifi for use on any additional pc, tablet or phone displays using either Navionics or Open CPN for navigational display of position and or ais collision avoidance.