Collating and Displaying NMEA2000/Seatalk Data on Laptop or Tablet

I'm sure I will figure out Open CPN but it is particularly awkwardand non-user friendly. I simply cannot get any chart addresses into it except NOAA - and the instructions/manual is of no help whatsoever.

I wouldn't have bought Raymarine by choice, to much was already there to bin it.To me the name Raycontrol suggests it controls Raymarine - it doesn't, it merely operates a remote display from which you can't control the boat! That's hardly my idea of "controlling" something!

Anyhow, back to trying to get charts into this bloody CPN.

I see that some AIS transponders have a USB output. It looks as if that might get the info I need into the plotter - is that right?
 
Slowboat35 said:
I'm sure I will figure out Open CPN but it is particularly awkwardand non-user friendly. I simply cannot get any chart addresses into it except NOAA - and the instructions/manual is of no help whatsoever.
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I'd suggest you start a new thread about your OpenCPN problems, i'm sure you'll get them resolved with some help from the forum.

I wouldn't have bought Raymarine by choice, to much was already there to bin it.To me the name Raycontrol suggests it controls Raymarine - it doesn't, it merely operates a remote display from which you can't control the boat! That's hardly my idea of "controlling" something!
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Raycontrol enables the MFD toe remotely controlled from an Android or iOS device, you can do anything from the device that you can do on theMFD. What chart plotter/MFD do you have ?

Anyhow, back to trying to get charts into this bloody CPN.

I see that some AIS transponders have a USB output. It looks as if that might get the info I need into the plotter - is that right?
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Not sure what you mean by "into the plotter".

Some AIS transponders do indeed have USB outputs and/or wifi. For instance, the Emtrak B100 outputs data via USB. If connected to a Seatalk/N2K network it should output everything via USB (needs a Seatalk to N2K adaptor to use Seatalk). Some of the 900 series also have Bluetooth or wifi.

I have a slight bias towards Emtrak devices, as i do supply them, because i like them, but other makes are of course available.
 
MarkCX said:
It’s more an intellectual exercise for me. It’s running on a Raspberry Pi Zero which doesn’t have the grunt for openplotter, but doesn’t draw much power either. Currently receives and logs data. Just building a web interface exactly how I want it.

+1 for GMI20. Really like mine.
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It's signalk which does all the work, should be fine on a zero and is such an amazing swiss army knife for data on a boat it's hard to see why not have it running.
SignalK/signalk-server-node
 
Anyone know why this is being rejected by CPN as not a valid URL?

h ttps://www.visitmyharbour.com/charts/view

(ignore the space in https, it's just to force the URL to be displayed as written)
 
Slowboat35 said:
Anyone know why this is being rejected by CPN as not a valid URL?

h ttps://www.visitmyharbour.com/charts/view

(ignore the space in https, it's just to force the URL to be displayed as written)
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Where are you trying to put that into opencpn?
If it's in the chart downloader tab then it says it's not a valid url because it's not a valid url.
 
MarkCX said:
I did give it a look quite a while ago. Will probably take a look again. I couldn’t find an iPhone app I liked for displaying data.
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Signalk has some very good apps for display, all on a web page so viewable on any device that can view a web page. KIP is my favourite. Unfortunately not included in the signalk online demo
Signak K » Demo
but some images here -
mxtommy/Kip
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Though yet to actually try it on a zero, htop show low processor resources being used to run signalk on my Pi3 so should be OK....
 
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Slowboat35 said:
Anyone know why this is being rejected by CPN as not a valid URL?

h ttps://www.visitmyharbour.com/charts/view

(ignore the space in https, it's just to force the URL to be displayed as written)
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If you want to use VMH charts with OpenCPN, just give them a call and tell them the charts you want and get them sent to you on a USB stick. Easy.
 
For the OP, if you want to display realtime NMEA data, try ManMonPc (free download) which runs on a Windows laptop. I have used this for many years and it shows great time histories on wind, depth speed. I find the true wind speed and direction history like an extra sense. All data is received on serial/USB and can be logged to disk for historical analysis. I use it exztensively, but would like to move on and am keen on Signal K etc, but not at a stage to find how it can replace NavMonPc just yet.
Your favourite luddite
If it aint broke....
 
yotter said:
But I would not call it one click away, the website is bewildering to say the least! No obvious numpty guide for yachties.
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Download this installer file >
https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server-windows/releases/latest/download/signalk-server-setup.exe

Double click to run it. Have a quick coffe while it installs. That's about it, I just reinstalled it. There was a ' do you want to log ' message box which I said no to. Then right click on the 'start signalk service' link on the desktop and 'run as administrator'. Signalk is now running in a website at localhost:3000
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You can turn it on and off and get it to auto run in the task manager services tab as well.
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Give it a go, didn't take long just now but a load of the bits might have been downloaded already.
 
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