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Old 13-07-2018, 00:59   #1
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OpenCPN - Seatalk1, advice needed

Hi All.
I am looking for a solution to be able to display the seatalk1 network's data on OpenCPN, including the AIS data.
What is the recommended solution here?
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Old 13-07-2018, 02:28   #2
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Re: OpenCPN - Seatalk1, advice needed

I would go for a ShipModul Miniplex3 USB + Raspberry (with OpenPlotter).
OpenPlotter will send the data (GPS/Wind/depth/compass/AIS) over wifi to (m)any OpenCPN instances.
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Old 13-07-2018, 06:27   #3
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Re: OpenCPN - Seatalk1, advice needed

I have the shipmodul miniplex 2 wifi version and I cannot get the USB (ftdi) serial connection to work. I have tried for hours with different baud rates and failed. However plugged into my Surface pro it is a very good product so I guess the version 3 will be just as good. But if anybody knows how to get the USB/serial connection to work I would be very interested. I am just a bit concerned the the USB chipset is incompatible the the Rpi.
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Old 13-07-2018, 07:22   #4
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Re: OpenCPN - Seatalk1, advice needed

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I am just a bit concerned the the USB chipset is incompatible the the Rpi.
For the Miniplex3-USB, it is is plug-and-play on a Raspberry. OpenPlotter is actually Raspbian Stretch. I only have to set the baud rate to 460800 chich is very fast, it is one of the important differences between Miniplex 2 and 3.
I'm very happy with it, all data, inclusing compass rate (Raymarine fluxgate) at 10Hz is easily sent OpenCPN which gets its data over wifi from OpenPlotter.
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Old 13-07-2018, 08:04   #5
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Re: OpenCPN - Seatalk1, advice needed

JeroenAdam Thanks!!!
I didn't even know about that baud rate but I just set my pi with :
stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 460800 and now I am I receiving data from my GPS/AIS and auto pilot. How many hours did I struggle with this?

So my solution is going to be:

GPS/AIS from my S.H. VHF to miniplex
Raymarine seatalk to miniple
OpenCPN to miniplex (Surface pro via wifi to my Raspberry pi.)
Raspberry Pi to/from miniplex/auto pilot.
Raspberry pi also running kplex to route NMEA/Seatalk to surface pro and Android phone.

So barunal. I agree. Shipmodul miniplex is a good way to go.
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Old 13-07-2018, 08:11   #6
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Re: OpenCPN - Seatalk1, advice needed

Kplex doesn't seem to support that baud rate!
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Old 13-07-2018, 08:18   #7
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Kplex doesn't seem to support that baud rate!
The OpenPlotter guys have managed this, when I wrote I set the baud to 460800, I meant I just have to set it in the OpenPlotter user interface. That is since v1.x.x which was released two months ago. Before, with v0.x.x, I had to launch stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 460800
I suppose it can be set in a Kplex config file, why even use a customized Raspbian and not OpenPlotter?
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why even use a customized Raspbian and not OpenPlotter?
That is a valid question! My pi is many things on the boat, most importantly for music and I have a whole php/mysql thing going on and I tend to shy away from things that do it all for me because I end up losing my stuff. But hey. SD cards are cheap so I might have to givce it a go.
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Kplex doesn't seem to support that baud rate!

Actually it has done since late 2016 in the develop branch on github. The problem is kplex is long overdue a "production" release and there's a bunch of bug fixes and minor features that have been made since the "current" version. I don't know what the openplotter folks are using these days but I'm guessing it's a snapshot of dev or the 1.4 beta
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Actually it has done since late 2016 in the develop branch on github. The problem is kplex is long overdue a "production" release and there's a bunch of bug fixes and minor features that have been made since the "current" version. I don't know what the openplotter folks are using these days but I'm guessing it's a snapshot of dev or the 1.4 beta
pi@openplotter:~ $ kplex -V
1.4rc1-7-g4f862ce
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Yes. I compiled the dev branch and now can use my pi or the miniplex as the wifi nmea/seatalk transceiver.
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The op request was to display seatalk 1 and ais. See supplimentary hardware manual / seatalk page. Use artisense or tiny seatalk from gadgetpoole.
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https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/do...e:seatalk_nmea
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