Signalk starts to show its potential?

[GHA]

http://www.panbo.com/archives/2016/...od_boat_wifi_and_smart_diy_coding_can_do.html

Cool app, hope he releases it for Android.

Will there come a time past manufacturers inertia when signalk is as common as nmea?

 

[laika]

From the title I was wondering whether you were wondering where all your bandwidth had gone....

 

[adwuk]

SignalK will be demanded as soon as there are a decent number of apps and displays that support it. I'm guessing that iPad/android apps will be first.

That said, I don't believe that it is important that device manufacturers actually support it. If the sensor/control backbone (i.e. depth, log, wind, GPS, autopilot, AIS) is NMEA and there is a SignalK gateway, then the displays can be SignalK. It doesn't really matter about sensors adopting it.

 

[GHA]

SignalK will be demanded as soon as there are a decent number of apps and displays that support it. I'm guessing that iPad/android apps will be first.

Hmm, I wonder. trying to guess the future it might be a bit of both, more sensors send it and more apps can view it. I suspect the apps might lead the way, that one from panbo is just one guy on his own - there's no big corporation needed to write some funky apps.

That said, I don't believe that it is important that device manufacturers actually support it. If the sensor/control backbone (i.e. depth, log, wind, GPS, autopilot, AIS) is NMEA and there is a SignalK gateway, then the displays can be SignalK. It doesn't really matter about sensors adopting it.

I would guess if they have any sense the manufacturers really should be thinking hard about it. One scenario - new sensors as they appear are wired plus can send nmea/signalk over wifi to a local network as well. MFD creates the network and can read SK/nmea and display, maybe wired for the more crucial data if you're paranoid. Or smaller scale, a cheap smartphone / raspberry pi creates the network and the sensors talk to that and you look at it on a tablet.
If they go go wifi then seems daft not to just add a little code to send signalk as well.
Interesting times though