On 8/25/14 6:17 PM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:19:12 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:05:28 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:00:07 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

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.

Guys like Harry would tell you to throw all of that "obsolete stuff"
away and buy the newest hardware/software setup. ;-)


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I doubt that Harry would have any clue at all on how to configure an
instrumentation network on a boat, and his friendly "genius" at the
Apple store would be helpless also.

Given that Yale liberal arts education, I'm sure he could read the directions...maybe he'd not
understand them, but he could read the words.




Ooooh...the bankster and the racist are giving each other handjobs.

I knew who to call to wire up the electronics on the boat, and he left
with me with computer-generated wiring diagrams and backup plans. The
factory did a good job with what it did, and the guy I hired did a
better job with what he did. We have a main system for nav, and a
completely independent backup system and, of course, I have chart
plotting capabilities on my laptop and on my iPhone. If I took the same
damned trip as many times as the bankster had taken the same trips, I'd
have everything pretty much memorized, except for the infrequently
reported depth changes. It's not difficult to get from here to Long
Island Sound, eh?