On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 09:51:19 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:50:15 +0100, ukaginam
wrote:


Wayne.B;1010347 Wrote:
For those of you with boats big enough that running wires and cables
can be difficult, here is a possible interesting solution which can
take your NMEA 183 data from a chart plotter, GPS, AIS receiver, etc.,
and transmit it over a wireless network to a PC, laptop, etc.:

http://tinyurl.com/n8da2oq

I haven't tried this yet but it looks intriguing for some future
projects that I have in mind.

if I understood it Wi fi adapter and with its aid you can sit on the
Internet from your mobile phone and tablet right?

No that is not it at all.
They mean you can stream NMEA 183 data to a device that is already
WiFi capable.
It adapts your Nav equipment to run on an existing WiFi network.
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As I understand it you can stream nav data to a smart phone or tablet
with the proviso that the app can access data over a WiFi connection.
The Amazon description lists a bunch of apps which can accept data
that way. The important one for me is OpenCPN which runs on a lot of
different hardware/software platforms. With this device I could
stream NMEA 183 UDP packets from my chart plotter and receive them
simultaneously at PCs running OpenCPN on both the lower and upper
helm. I already have a cable in place to do that however so the
immediate need is not that compelling. What I'd really like now is a
capability within OpenCPN to output data to a virtual COM port for
older applications that can't access network data.