Raymarine C70 Plotter -Wifi?

[x25dave]

Is it possible to upgrade a C70 Plotter to transmit a WiFi signal, so that it can be linked to a tablet, or laptop?

 

[prv]

Is it possible to upgrade a C70 Plotter to transmit a WiFi signal, so that it can be linked to a tablet, or laptop?

No.

(Depending on what you’re actually trying to achieve, you might be able to use some other equipment to transmit NMEA 0183 from the plotter as UDP packets over WiFi, but I’m not really sure what sentences from the plotter would be particularly useful anyway.)

Pete

 

[laika]

To expand on Pete's response, if you're after display mirroring as on the modern raymarine plotters I think you're out of luck. A glance at the manual suggests the C70 classic doesn't even have an ethernet port so even old Raytech software might be incompatible.

OTOH I wouldn't dismiss the value of of data coming out over nmea 0183. I've usefully had a raspberry pi wired up to the nmea-0183 output of my C90W feeding data over wifi to opencpn running on a laptop (or you could do it direct to the laptop). The plotter bridges the seatalk-1 data to NMEA-0183.

Having said that, I note from the C70 manual that only a subset of data gets transmitted (notably excluding STW apparently). If your boat is mostly seatalk-1 you might be better off getting a seatalk to nmea-0183 converter and tapping off that, or just going the more expensive route and buying a commercial wifi multiplexer that accepts seatalk 1 inputs

 

[x25dave]

To expand on Pete's response, if you're after display mirroring as on the modern raymarine plotters I think you're out of luck. A glance at the manual suggests the C70 classic doesn't even have an ethernet port so even old Raytech software might be incompatible.

OTOH I wouldn't dismiss the value of of data coming out over nmea 0183. I've usefully had a raspberry pi wired up to the nmea-0183 output of my C90W feeding data over wifi to opencpn running on a laptop (or you could do it direct to the laptop). The plotter bridges the seatalk-1 data to NMEA-0183.

Having said that, I note from the C70 manual that only a subset of data gets transmitted (notably excluding STW apparently). If your boat is mostly seatalk-1 you might be better off getting a seatalk to nmea-0183 converter and tapping off that, or just going the more expensive route and buying a commercial wifi multiplexer that accepts seatalk 1 inputs

Thank you for your more 'in depth' reply. Both very helpful guys

Regards Dave

 

[AntarcticPilot]

To expand on Pete's response, if you're after display mirroring as on the modern raymarine plotters I think you're out of luck. A glance at the manual suggests the C70 classic doesn't even have an ethernet port so even old Raytech software might be incompatible.

OTOH I wouldn't dismiss the value of of data coming out over nmea 0183. I've usefully had a raspberry pi wired up to the nmea-0183 output of my C90W feeding data over wifi to opencpn running on a laptop (or you could do it direct to the laptop). The plotter bridges the seatalk-1 data to NMEA-0183.

Having said that, I note from the C70 manual that only a subset of data gets transmitted (notably excluding STW apparently). If your boat is mostly seatalk-1 you might be better off getting a seatalk to nmea-0183 converter and tapping off that, or just going the more expensive route and buying a commercial wifi multiplexer that accepts seatalk 1 inputs

I have a C80 and can confirm that there is no way of sharing the display, even with more capable plotters of the same generation.

 

[x25dave]

Thank you.