laika
Well-known member
Further to recent NMEA-over-wifi threads...do you have boat data (Log/Depth/AIS/GPS etc.) available over wifi for consumption by computers, iThings etc?
You don't have an option "yes, held together with string and chewing- gum"
That would be option 3. Unless you actively favour string and chewing gum based technology
In fact I fall into exactly that category. Have hacky home-brew solution. Would like something functionally equivalent but without the trailing usb-serial dongles and concern that dropping off a wave will make it all fall apart. Wish I was better at electronics and fabrication....
...Got a home made fridge thermostat which talks & can be turned up/down over bluetooth - does that count?
Don't have, don't want
Can't really see any use for, to be honest
Pete
Each to their own, but I find this useful for
(A) anchor watch - I can look at the iPad whilst still in the bunk and see on one page the depth, distance & direction to waypoint (where anchored), heading (which way are we lying), and true wind speed & direction
crossing shipping lanes etc - AIS data is better on the iPad than the plotter at the helm
it's specifically boat instrument data I'm bemused by.
Got a home made fridge thermostat which talks & can be turned up/down over bluetooth - does that count?
You did not ask if we use any other wireless like bluetooth.
A tablet at the nav station is cheaper than a plotter
Many people like [a laptop] running at the nav station and having data available over wifi is fewer wires to deal with
You're doing a long passage as skipper. You're lying in your bunk. Someone else is on the helm. Don't you ever want to quickly check the speed and heading on your phone without getting up?
Remote boat monitoring. There may be times you want to check position and depth from somewhere off the boat
Really the point of the poll is trying to gauge where we're at with this: What percentage of people have it, don't have it etc.
I've done that very thing, from both my bunk and from the heads . But that doesn't require the boat's own sensor data, Navionics on an iPhone is perfectly fine.
Yep, but wifi won't cut it for that. I almost said in my first post, that I can see more use for GSM connectivity (for this kind of use) than wifi.
anyone else suddenly taken to looking at the sea temperature reading for the first time en route to sunnier climes?
I don't think I have ever looked at the temperature readout on a yacht instrument
Sailing to the caribbean from France in November it suddenly takes on a new importance