Logged onto the boat from home!!!

[iangrant]

Boat Monitored at:

Cabin int Temp 14.9 deg Humidity 52%
On shore power
4.2 metres water depth
Wind speed - 13.2 kts 043 deg true
sea temp 6.8 degrees
Still tied to the jetty
Bilge empty


All is well with the world!

 

[jimi]

Dream on mate! I've bunged your sensor in the bogs and swapped your boat with Griff's and and am now doing a wee bit of creosoteing to bring the MAB up to spec.

 

[iangrant]

Na not unless you crawled in without opening the hatch and anyway i'd see you on the web cam

 

[DickB]

Ahhh but is that shore power rotting your metal bits in the water with galvanic corrosion? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Guest]

Great! Does that mean you can go sailing without actually leaving your home computer?

 

[pyrojames]

I say, what. Has your man given you a call to say all is well?

 

[Powersalt]

ok, im hooked it sounds great use of technology. How do you do it??

 

[ParaHandy]

SOG 5kn
Shore power on ..
erm .. ooops ..

 

[iangrant]

Laptop on board connected to the Raymarine E80 therefore boat instruments on the ethernet port. The Laptop is running Raytech RNS (but could be anything that will interface with boat instruments on NMEA)

There is also a cheap weather station on board connected on a serial-usb cable into the laptop.

The laptop is on wireless connection and a VPN established to a server network.

I VPN in from home to the server network (or from anywhere on the internet for that matter) and use remote desktop (in XP under accessories, communications) to log on remotely to the boat. Remote dektop takes over the laptop on the boat so it is like being on the boat!

This is the first trial and a bit "raw" but will soon have a web server that the boat laptop will connect to then all i'll have to do is point the browser at the web server and hey presto.

I plan to trial it for a while and will offer the web server access to forumites to beta test the system so get ready to plug in if you're interested, you will of course only be able to log onto your own boat.

Going to add other bits to the system, alarms and the like, remote power on/off.

Ian

 

[iangrant]

Time to jump in the car!!!!!

 

[iangrant]

Er - sounds daft but probably, perish the thought.

Still it's great to be playing with the boat even from home!

 

[Searush]

Great, but it's a bit difficult to get WiFi access in the middle of a Welsh river - bloomin' hard enough to get a mobile phone or TV/Radio4 signal. Also I would need an armoured submarine power cable & somewhere to plug it in.

When are you going to stick a web cam in the cockpit & let us all watch the seagulls cr@pping on your foredeck?

 

[cagey]

How Cool please let me play
Keith

 

[iangrant]

will do as soon as the web server is up and running..

Ian

 

[Alfie168]

This reminds me of the university that was tracking a tagged salmon up a river by remote computer. The salmon decided to cross a field and proceed down a local B road. They caught the poachers.

Tim

 

[Sans Bateau]

So who do you know that I dont to enable you to get a decent WiFi signal in our marina then?

Oh! PS. Happy new year to you and family.

 

[enterprise]

Na,
Can see that on the underwater Anodecam.. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[captainslarty]

How do you put out the electrical fires from the overload remotely?????

 

[brianrunyard]

Standard Microsoft salute.

Ctrl,Alt Delete

 

[Forty_Two]

I have thought about doing this, but how do you re-logon to the Wifi network (password etc) if the Wifi connection is dropped for any reason?

On my network in Sof i have to enter a code & tick a T&C box each time i logon.

I did think of dialling into the laptop via a mobile to do this.