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[RobbieW]

In hindsight and from practical experience now, Ive got the radar running on a different and dedicated ipad so thats out of the equation now. It doesnt need access to the internet or any other prgrams or sensors to do that.

My amended “problem” is as per the later posts.

Are you saying I can plug the AIS converter (which Ive yet to identify/source) into the POE port on the satcom ?

Thinking a bit laterally, what model is your plotter ? If recent, it's possible it has an ethernet port. If it does, I'd be tempted to plug an ethernet cable between that and the SATCOM Poe port then try to direct the iPad to read from port 10110 on the plotter. That's what I'm doing with a Simrad plotter into a router, the plotter shares all its 0183 data on that standard port which can be used by any device connected to the router. In your case I think your SATCOM device is acting as a router, not mailasail Redbox is it ?

 

[Chris Edwards]

No its an old Raymarine C90W - steam driven.

No, the satcom is a BGAN terminal.

Thinking a bit laterally, what model is your plotter ? If recent, it's possible it has an ethernet port. If it does, I'd be tempted to plug an ethernet cable between that and the SATCOM Poe port then try to direct the iPad to read from port 10110 on the plotter. That's what I'm doing with a Simrad plotter into a router, the plotter shares all its 0183 data on that standard port which can be used by any device connected to the router. In your case I think your SATCOM device is acting as a router, not mailasail Redbox is it ?

 

[Tempus]

I had a similar problem to this

I had a wifi system on board to get internet running from a ubiquiti bullet via a standard netgear router which provides Wi-fi to the boat.

raymarine system outputting its own Wi-fi network.

I bought an I-Kommunucate NMEA to signal k connector from digital yacht, interfaced into the back of the router with a cat5 cable.

It it works a treat. I can output all my nmea and AIS data over signal K, TCP or UDP. I just connect to one Wi-fi now rather than constantly toggling between 2.

Not it sure from your post whether this works for you as I have on knowledge of radar via Wi-Fi,

 

[Chris Edwards]

Thanks.

That unit was recommended to me again yesterday. Im also looking at the Digital Yacht iNavHub which seems simpler and I suspect adequate for my current needs. The radar is out of the equation as mentioned earlier in this thread.

I had a similar problem to this

I had a wifi system on board to get internet running from a ubiquiti bullet via a standard netgear router which provides Wi-fi to the boat.

raymarine system outputting its own Wi-fi network.

I bought an I-Kommunucate NMEA to signal k connector from digital yacht, interfaced into the back of the router with a cat5 cable.

It it works a treat. I can output all my nmea and AIS data over signal K, TCP or UDP. I just connect to one Wi-fi now rather than constantly toggling between 2.

Not it sure from your post whether this works for you as I have on knowledge of radar via Wi-Fi,

 

[GHA]

Thanks.

That unit was recommended to me again yesterday. Im also looking at the Digital Yacht iNavHub which seems simpler and I suspect adequate for my current needs. The radar is out of the equation as mentioned earlier in this thread.

For a cruising boat a rasp pi running openplotter should do similar but with many more benifits, logging/plotting data is great at showing slow trends which wouldn't be obvious just looking at numbers. Easy to set up but as with any system getting all the data most likely the most involved bit though signalk makes wifi sensors so much easier to implement

 

[Chris Edwards]

Thanks for all your inputs.

Ive finally gone with a Digital Yacht solution involving a wifi router and iKommunicate which will give me what I need.
Thread closed with many thanks.