Digital Yacht iAIS Wireless AIS Receiver - WiFi Use With Laptop and OpenCPN

[RichardS]

This is an exchange I had this morning with Paul Sumpner from Digital Yacht concerning their iAIS Wireless / USB / NMEA AIS receiver. I could not find the answer to my question anywhere on the web so thought this might be helpful for other forumites who use OpenCPN and would like a painless AIS set-up.

Unless anyone suggests otherwise, I feel the urge coming on to buy the iAIS Wireless Receiver for my "grand cruise" in July / August.

Richard


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Hi Paul

I'm looking at the iAIS but I use a Windows Laptop on board running OpenCPN which does accept and display NMEA AIS data. Presumably the laptop will connect to the iAIS wifi hotspot, as it does to any wifi hotspot, so, once connected, can I direct the iAIS output into OpenCPN?

Richard

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Today, 12:55
Paul_DY
Commercial Member

Re: Digital Yacht iAIS Wireless AIS receiver


Hi Richard,

The iAIS will work perfectly with your Windows PC and supply AIS data wirelessly to OpenCPN. If you have a GPS or better still an instrument system with an NMEA0183 output, you can feed this in to the iAIS NMEA input and then this data will also be wirelessly sent to OpenCPN.


BR
PAUL
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Paul Sumpner
Digital Yacht