Best dealership for looking at marine electronics in the south east.

[st599]

It depends on what else you need to interface to. Make sure when checking it has the inputs and outputs you need for other items on the boat. For example, Radar.

At Boot Düsseldorf, quite a few new products were moving away from NMEA 0183 and 2000 and starting to use NMEA OneNet. Garmin have a new proprietary network for controlling lights, fridges etc.

 

[Daydream believer]

All the above thtead reminds me of the old add which went something like
Go & look at it in the shop-- then buy it through Exchange & Mart
.

That magazine got a taste of its own medicine with the growth of the internet

 

[lustyd]

I don’t think OneNet is much of a consideration for the average yacht right now. Until sensors are available we’re stuck with N2k and radar is Ethernet these days anyway, albeit not usually IPv6.

Garmins switching solution isn’t proprietary it’s CAN and runs on the N2k backbone?

 

[st599]

I don’t think OneNet is much of a consideration for the average yacht right now. Until sensors are available we’re stuck with N2k and radar is Ethernet these days anyway, albeit not usually IPv6.

Garmins switching solution isn’t proprietary it’s CAN and runs on the N2k backbone?

Whilst the transport is standard, the data format is proprietary. So a Garmin plotter and a Raymarine Radar are both ethernet, but from wat I gathered at Boot most plotters only work with the same brand Radar (with a few exceptions).

Similarly, I think Garmin bought EmpirBus which uses CANbus but with proprietary data.