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wotayottie

wotayottie

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thinking of buying a tablet and would load some charting software on it. On the boat I have a C80 ( the original one) below deck and it would be ever so handy if I were able to get the two to talk so that waypoints on the C80 would maginally appear on the tablet above deck.

Without throwing away the C80 and replacing with a blue tooth or wifi version, is there any way of achieveing what I want to do?
 
You need an INav hub - I have this system for the E140W's on the race boat and it will connect your Iphone or Ipad to the boat. Whilst I am sponsored by Raymarine I bought this item!

Digital Yacht

PS it works with the Navionics charts ............
 
Just to check on that great bit of kit but I think its NMEA is only one way i.e. only going to the ipad? If so it means waypoints on the iPad can't be fed into the autopilot. If it is two way NMEA then that's awesome. Comar are launching a two way wireless NMEA at LIBS but the digital yacht box also creates a strong hot spot.
 
Lazy Kipper said:
Just to check on that great bit of kit but I think its NMEA is only one way i.e. only going to the ipad? If so it means waypoints on the iPad can't be fed into the autopilot. If it is two way NMEA then that's awesome. Comar are launching a two way wireless NMEA at LIBS but the digital yacht box also creates a strong hot spot.
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It's two way - there's a video from them explaining: YouTube video - and it works as I have done it!
 
OK, but no NMEA in/out so needs the Raymarine E series, we now use the ipad as sole plotter and want it to communicate with the Raymarine autopilot.
 
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wotayottie said:
Without throwing away the C80 and replacing with a blue tooth or wifi version, is there any way of achieveing what I want to do?
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Wire it up to a computer running running some software that will do bi-directional serial->wireless for you? Like this, which is totally bi-directional. Obviously whatever you're running on the ipad would need to be able to deal with communicating waypoints over nmea.

If you're restricted to running Windows on your laptop, I stand to be corrected but *think* the tcp server for NavMonPC is one-way only. Perhaps someone else knows more details of the data routing promised in the next version of OpenCPN.
 
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