Low Power Pi Openplotter setup - screen

[st599]

This thread has encouraged me to ask Santa for a Pi this christmas. Its been in my "save until later" box for a while.
Is there any problems getting charts? Im not overly tech savvy nowadays so may be asking a lot of questions later.
TIA

It's relatively easy. Raspberry Pi (and most other Linux systems) have a sort of app-store system. So to get UK vector charts on Linux you need to use the official OpenCPN Software repository and get OpenCPN and the oesENC plugin. (If you use the OpenPlotter linux variant, I think all of this comes automatically installed)

You can then buy official 2017 charts with 1 year of updates from http://o-charts.org/ (UK is 18 Euro, UK and France 29 Euro)
You can install them on 2 systems.

 

[roblpm]

In case anyone is interested..
Measuring total consumption just now on a NUC5PPYH with 10.1" 1280x800 12v screen
950mA running OpenCPN with wireless keyboard/mouse and screen active
460mA running OpenCPN with wireless keyboard/mouse connected but screen sleeping
320mA running OpenCPN with wireless keyboard/mouse connected but screen powered off


So
It looks like my little screen uses about 490mA when on at standard brightness
but still uses 140mA when sleeping and just powering the front LED.

I have not changed any Windows settings to reduce power consumption. I think powering off the monitor will make more of a difference for now.

Wind, depth, ais and navigation data are all obtained via ethernet so I've not included USB<-> Serial adapter consumption.

Great stuff thanks

 

[HighlandDave]

It's relatively easy. Raspberry Pi (and most other Linux systems) have a sort of app-store system. So to get UK vector charts on Linux you need to use the official OpenCPN Software repository and get OpenCPN and the oesENC plugin. (If you use the OpenPlotter linux variant, I think all of this comes automatically installed)

You can then buy official 2017 charts with 1 year of updates from http://o-charts.org/ (UK is 18 Euro, UK and France 29 Euro)
You can install them on 2 systems.

Thanks for that info. Sorry didnt see your reply until I was investigating further. I assume I can install the same charts on the Pi as well as an android tablet running OpenCPN? The next thing is convertng the nmea0813 output of the instruments to usb. Doesnt seem to be a particularly cheap way! I have a comar AIS receiver that I want to connect . I also have a Furuno Navtex that Id like to display on a bigger screen as well as a barometric pressure sensor. And eventually give some kind of output to guide an autopilot. In my head thats what Id like to do but not sure if its all possible realistically.

 

[TSB240]

The next thing is convertng the nmea0813 output of the instruments to usb. Doesnt seem to be a particularly cheap way! I have a comar AIS receiver that I want to connect . I also have a Furuno Navtex that Id like to display on a bigger screen as well as a barometric pressure sensor. And eventually give some kind of output to guide an autopilot. In my head thats what Id like to do but not sure if its all possible realistically.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0...erter+dual&dpPl=1&dpID=41pUGnP8bRL&ref=plSrch