ICOM MA510 AIS to Digital Yacht Smart Wireless NMEA server

[robmcg]

I have interfaced a digital yacht smart wireless Nmea server with an Icom MA510 AIS transponder via Nmea 0183. There are some issues. The eventual aim is to get the AIS data overlayed on Navionics. To some extent it has worked in that occasionally the digital yacht device will connect with a Samsung Tab A and a Samsung phone........but not at the same time. It will not overlay AIS data on an iPhone as it just says the digital yacht device is disconnected all the time. I was hoping for a seamless integration but alas it doesn't look like it's going to happen. Any advice on troubleshooting. The IP address shows up in the web browser and there is a steady stream of data showing passing through the digital yacht device, it just seems to struggle to output the data (connection) in Navionics. Thoughts???

 

[laika]

Are you trying to use tcp or udp and which port? The firmware on those things seems remarkably stupid and only allows one tcp client at a time. If you want to use multiple devices you’ll need to use udp.

 

[robmcg]

Are you trying to use tcp or udp and which port? The firmware on those things seems remarkably stupid and only allows one tcp client at a time. If you want to use multiple devices you’ll need to use udp.

I'm using TCP as I thought it might give a slightly more stable connection, plus it seemed to be the default setting for Digital Yacht. That would certainly account for why it really didn't like connecting to two devices simultaneously. I did wonder if it needed a firmware update as the integration with Navionics wasn't as 'out of the box' as the instructions implied .

 

[robmcg]

Laika - you were on the money with that one. Digital Yacht have also confirmed that UDP has to be used for connecting multiple devices - although they fail to point this out in any of their instructions .