Money isn't the only cost to consider. While I agree that combining them isn't necessarily the best option, OP did mention space. Separate units are expensive in terms of space, which may be the bigger consideration. Separate units are often in the same ballpark money wise so aside from flexibility and possibly quality/features the combined unit makes some sense.
Yaesu ltd, Segensworth (standard horizon) can change/ delete the mmsi number for £17.50 while you wait , or £25 if you post it to them.
The SH went with the old boat, just the B&G/Navico unit now which I assume is their own?
Yaesu told me:
They don't that's why I'm asking.
Yes I did mine with a free code from SH. Apparently it depends on which firmware version you have - will try to find the email.
Thanks - it's ashame that unit seems to only put AIS out on the Wifi - NMEA sentences for all transducers would be useful too.
In what way? I've never seen an issue in the Solent and AIS has worked as intended
There are chart plotters that have built in ais tranceivers? These also have the ability to easily delete the mmsi for a different one, but they are usually chinese.
Wholly dependant on how well the algorithm for finding a spare channel is implemented. Ours is rarely seen.
I'm surprised in how long it's taking the major players to implement OneNet in leisure craft devices. Seems an absolute no brainer and gets rid of the various CanBUS clones.
I'm not, Ethernet is extremely power hungry by comparison, both electrically and in the software stack required to drive it. I don't see it every fully taking over from the far simpler CAN stuff. Ethernet also has issues with address provisioning which the marine folk don't appear to be capable of understanding, so I'd expect even if they did use Ethernet they'd do so on a private LAN rather than an open one.
