OpenCPN on a touchscreen / tablet

[tudorsailor]

I'm still using the free android OpenCPN on my waterproof Xperia tablet (installed long before it was even available on the Playstore) with free CM93 charts as an AIS display and it is excellent. I have all the text options etc turned off so it basically just displays the coastline and islands and refreshes really quickly which is all I need for AIS.

Richard

How do you get AIS onto the tablet

TS

 

[RichardS]

How do you get AIS onto the tablet

TS

I get both the AIS data and the GPS data onto the tablet over wifi from the Vesper Marine XB8000. This means that I have GPS switched off on the tablet so the battery life is much better and, being wifi, I can wander around the boat without losing sight of the display.

Richard

 

[LadyInBed]

I'm the OP.

After much buggering about I've given up with OpenCPN

No tenacity!

 

[moomba]

I use a Panasonic Toughbook as well, but I am struggling with the external GPS - a Garmin Etrex.


Can someone point me to a simple process for adding GPS to the OpenCPN please ? (I have the newest set of UK charts, thanks to GHA's advice.)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/GlobalSat-...e=UTF8&qid=1542827116&sr=8-3&keywords=gps+usb

Plug and play , open up a comm port in Open cpn normally com 3 and you should see the gps, but you must turn of the gps software as only one single can come out of the GPS
If Garmin Etrex you will need to do the same open up a com port in OPENCPN

 

[moomba]

Also run A desktop i5 computer with 24 inch monitor for OPENCPN and then use the internal wifi to show this up on a Nexus 10 INCH with gps on the helm
also have a 12 inch note book with separate OPENCPN with separate GPS and a HDMI cable connected to the 24 inch Screen as my back up
Find OPENCPN easy to use and understand as long as you follow their excellent instructions and as posted above a little tenacity.
burn around 5 amps per hour for Main Computer and monitor

 

[Sticky Fingers]

I'm the OP.

After much buggering about I've given up with OpenCPN, gone for paid Navionics HD (about £40 / year) on a Samsung 10" tablet, using the web app on my Mac and PC (browsers).

Was that the free ancient version or the real version? (Something maison is the ancient version on the play store, not worth bothering with).

?Maison? Je ne sais pas. Real version though.

No tenacity!

Haha, well maybe all too true. I just needed it to work out of the box.

I arrived at Navionics via VMH raster charts and an Android charting app. Liked a lot but impossible to start on a PC or Mac and transfer routes and tracks seamlessly to the tablet. Navionics fixed that for me, so for a few quid a year I chose that.

 

[GHA]

?Maison? Je ne sais pas. Real version though.
Navionics fixed that for me, so for a few quid a year I chose that.

:encouragement::encouragement:

If it works , it works!

 

[Sticky Fingers]

:encouragement::encouragement:

If it works , it works!

Yep. Now I've gotten used to it I'd really like to be able to run Navionics charts on the boat plotter - made by Garmin, which owns Navionics... No can do.

 

[GTom]

I use a Samsung Tab A 10.1". It does the job but it is certainly not the fastest thing. Nice bright screen, great battery life though and doesn't cost a fortune!