I just ordered this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/NMEA-0183-to-WiFi-BRIDGE-/182598371832 $37 or so US dollars shipped free from Australia. They have two NMEA channel versions too. I was tempted to stick the AIS in my car and drive over the Bay Bridge, it surely will get picked up 200 feet in the air, but then thought of a tanker hitting a cruise ship and then they both hit the bridge and knock it over while avoiding getting rammed by the westbound boat doing 60 knots made me rethink my plan. Speaking of which, there is at least one airplane flying around with AIS. Freaked me out the first time I saw a 99 knot “boat” hit dry land and keep going! I had a weird symbol, maybe an circle with an X IIRC/
Joe Della Barba Coquina From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Joel Aronson via CnC-List Sent: Monday, November 06, 2017 10:56 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Joel Aronson <joel.aron...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List AIS improvement + general rewiring Joe, Look for yourself on Marine Traffic. Or let me know when the unit has been on for a while. Please let me know how the NMEA WiFi bridge works. Could be much simpler than what I am trying to do with Signal K and a router. Joel On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 10:39 AM, Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote: I have the AIS unit now. I wish I hadn’t been so quick to ship the old one, I would like to see it work and apparently I have no shore station in reach of my location at the dock. All the lights are good, the diagnostics are all good, and it says it is transmitting. I guess I have to get out from behind the buildings and out in the Bay to actually see myself online. Another question has come up. I just got an old Gen 2 IPad I am going to try along with my other toys. It is the Wi-Fi version, no GPS built in. So I ordered a NMEA>WIFI bridge from FleaBay that should allow this, and my phone, to get the GPS and AIS data. Two questions: 1. Has anyone used the Navionics app with Wi-Fi data like this? The app itself isn’t real helpful, it basically says connect your device and it will work. Well thanks for that tip! 2. Anyone have Navionics on more than one device? When I got the IPad on my account I have every single app ready to port over that I have on the phone including Navionics Hiking, but NOT the Navionics marine navigation app? Is this some Apple malfunction or is Navionics trying to get paid twice? If I have to buy it again, I can get INAV-X for about half the price. Thanks Joe Coquina From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com>] On Behalf Of ALAN BERGEN via CnC-List Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 12:13 PM To: C&C <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> Cc: ALAN BERGEN <trya...@alumni.usc.edu<mailto:trya...@alumni.usc.edu>> Subject: Re: Stus-List AIS improvement + general rewiring Joe: I have an AIT2000 and Raymarine C80 MFD. The AIS out goes to the C80 NMEA 0183 in and the AIS in goes to the C80 out. Since I have a separate GPS, that connects to my VHF for the DSC connection. I use a separate VHF antenna for the AIS, and it can be used as a VHF antenna in case I ever lose my mast. I had difficulty connecting the AIS to my laptop (something to do with the software I'm using), so I connected my GPS to the laptop as well as to the VHF/DSC connections. Alan Bergen 35 Mk III Thirsty Rose City YC Portland, OR On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com<mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote: The old AIS was tested on my Sunday afternoon sail and got about 15 targets. It is now off the boat to be shipped to its new owner. The new one is on the way, a Digital Yacht AIT1500. So now I need to redo the various NMEA connections and the first thing I am trying to figure is the DSC-in signals. The VHF has a DSC-out and apparently the new AIS does too, but it does not seem to be documented. The manual mentions once receiver switches back and forth between DSC and AIS, but does not mention what sentences it sends out or on what outputs. My initial plan is to have the VHF DSC out go to the AIS NMEA in and then it can combine DSC messages it hears with whatever the AIS picks up. I am planning for now for the AIS to provide data for the nav computer and VHF, the cockpit plotter will get the AIS info from the AIS and GPS data either from its own receiver or the AIS unit, and the APRS will have its own low power GPS so I can turn everything off but APRS when I am not on the boat. More to follow, but that is plan so far. One frustration is for some reason the CP180 plotter will NOT take a GPS fix on any input but 4800 baud port 3, so even though the AIS will send all the GPS data along with AIS on 38K baud, the plotter won’t read the GPS sentences at that speed on ports 1 or 2. OpenCPN has no such restriction, so one connection will do for that. Joe Coquina C&C 35 MK I _______________________________________________ The bills have started coming in for the year 2018 and have gone up again. October will be our fund raising month. Please consider sending a small contribution to help keep this list running. 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