If you are using a USB port you have to set up a virtual serial port. Make sure the serial port is set to the proper baud rate for AIS. This can be done via Open CPN. Go to options- connections. Click add connection serial port and baudrate 4800, protocol NMEA 0183. If no ports are listed you must create a virtual port using software the came with your ais receiver or download any virtual USB to serial software. Jerry
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 8, 2017, at 10:46 AM, David via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > Joe, > > > Got the unit and hooked it up to laptop running OpenCPN and SeaClear III. > > > Went to beach with whip VHF antennae to test. Nuthin'. > > That might be because there was nuthin' sending AIS signals or the laptop > was not communicating via the port. > > > Any tricks you may pass along before I dive into the internet abyss ? > > > Thanks in advance. > > David F. Risch > (401) 419-4650 (cell) > > > From: CnC-List <cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com> on behalf of Della Barba, Joe > via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 11:02 AM > To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com > Cc: Della Barba, Joe > Subject: Re: Stus-List AIS improvement + general rewiring > > 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> 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] On Behalf Of ALAN > BERGEN via CnC-List > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 12:13 PM > To: C&C <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> > Cc: ALAN BERGEN <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> 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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