B&G Marine Audio unit integration to AXIOM

[picardy]

Hi

Can anyone tell me if this unit SonicHub2 (Black Box) | Marine Entertainment | B&G Sailing Electronics. can integrate and function with a Raymarine AXIOM 9+. ie does the Raymarine have a screen that would talk to this or not?

Thanks

 

[PaulRainbow]

The page you linked to states:

"Works with Lowrance® HDS Gen3 and HDS Gen2 Touch; Simrad® NSS evo2, NSO evo2 and GO7; B&G® Zeus2, Zeus2 Glass Helm and Vulcan 7 "

So i'd say that's a no-go with the Axiom. The Axiom does work with Fusion audio systems.

 

[prv]

The products Paul lists are all made by Navico, as is the device you’re asking about, so it’s not surprising that they work together. Raymarine is a competitor to Navico, so it’s also not surprising that the two companies haven’t agreed to make it work there. Fusion isn’t a competitor to either, so is more likely to work with both, and is also better known as a marine audio manufacturer.

Pete

 

[Ningaloo]

However Fusion is owned by Garmin which is a competitor in the MFD space...
I understood that Fusion lead the way with N2K audio using proprietary PGNs but that there are now a set of standard PGNs for audio which have been adopted by the latest iteration of MFD software.
The SonicHub 2 does support these standard audio protocols so might be worth checking with Raymarine.

 

[prv]

However Fusion is owned by Garmin which is a competitor in the MFD space...

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

Pete

 

[PaulRainbow]

Garmin does indeed own Fusion, but Fusion is still operated independently and their systems will work with a variety of manufacturers MFDs, not just Garmin. They most definitely work with Raymarine Axioms, i fitted one a few weeks ago. They also work with some later Navico MFDs too.

 

[picardy]

Thank you - I just wasn't sure if the NMEA2000 protocols made it work with all of them but that's a
great steer thank you.