PyPilot

[Gilletarom]

Hello Sean,

I made a first partial translation of the pypilot plugin in the crowdin.

Gilletarom.

[rramsey]

I am very interested in Pypilot in my 50ft Beneteau sailing boat. A have an old Raymarine mfd and a new SIMRAD mfd, all connected through a SHIPMODUL to NMEA0183, NMEA2000, TCP and WIFI. My Raymarine AP is prolly older than I am and not particularly good in heavy conditions. I will use it as a spare.

PyPilot seems very interesting, waiting for the heavy duty motor controller.

Here's my Q: would it be possible for Pypilot to masquerade as a Navico AP and/or a Raymarine AP? That way I can control it from my MFD. I have only seen this being done once, whereby I can control my Ray AP from my phone. I feel this could massively increase interest!

[rramsey]

Question: I have a mixed jumble of old and new hardware on the boat. NMEA0183 wind / AP (Raymarine), NMEA2000 DPT / AIS, all converting to and fro using a SHIPMODUL box which also puts it on TCP and WiFi. Nothing much I cannot send, receive or convert.

1. Wil the PyPilot use the necessary (wind) info (either through NMEA0183 or WiFi)?
2. Can I use the rudder reference thingy of my Raymarine ST7000 AP?
3. Does PyPilot support the clutch of my linear drive (type 2)?

[seandepagnier]

It may be best to continue the discussion on the pypilot forums:

OpenMarine - Pypilot

Originally Posted by rramsey

Question: I have a mixed jumble of old and new hardware on the boat. NMEA0183 wind / AP (Raymarine), NMEA2000 DPT / AIS, all converting to and fro using a SHIPMODUL box which also puts it on TCP and WiFi. Nothing much I cannot send, receive or convert.

1. Wil the PyPilot use the necessary (wind) info (either through NMEA0183 or WiFi)?
2. Can I use the rudder reference thingy of my Raymarine ST7000 AP?
3. Does PyPilot support the clutch of my linear drive (type 2)?

Yes for all.

Originally Posted by rramsey

I am very interested in Pypilot in my 50ft Beneteau sailing boat. A have an old Raymarine mfd and a new SIMRAD mfd, all connected through a SHIPMODUL to NMEA0183, NMEA2000, TCP and WIFI. My Raymarine AP is prolly older than I am and not particularly good in heavy conditions. I will use it as a spare.

PyPilot seems very interesting, waiting for the heavy duty motor controller.

Contact me with email if you want to order a high power controller.

Here's my Q: would it be possible for Pypilot to masquerade as a Navico AP and/or a Raymarine AP? That way I can control it from my MFD. I have only seen this being done once, whereby I can control my Ray AP from my phone. I feel this could massively increase interest!

It accepts nmea0183 and signalk for control. Not sure what the MFD you have uses.

It is already possible to control from a phone using the web browser control interface, or running opencpn android.

[rgleason]

Pypilot has been updated to 0.8.1beta for Windows Opencpn v4.2.0-v4.8.8 and Sean has included Tacking now. Please report tests of this plugin if you have the full setup required.


https://github.com/rgleason/pypilot_...tag/v0.8.1beta

[rgleason]

Sean Pypilot ov50 is now working.

I was wondering how much power would be needed to run my st4000 raymarine wheelpilot with pypilot on our bristol? Just an average needed. It balances well and will sail for quite awhile upwind without trimming.

I saw this post and one below with an remarkable estimate of use for an autopilot, its a bosch wiper motor 24v used at 12v.
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/....php?p=2836856

Darn thats the jpeg! Not the link....yes it is the link, you can click on it.

Here look at this screen shot from CPT.com
It says average current draw is .4 amps
Well .4 amps times 24 hours is 9.6 AH?
Less than 11, the CPT is extremely miserly in power consumption

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/....php?p=2838149


Is the CPT more miserly than ST4000?

[patmo141]

I know this thread is about PyPilot but I wanted to inform/connect you all. The Ardupilot community has started tackling autonomous sailing in a meaningful way starting in late 2018. They also have a Google Summer of Code project initiated. Perhaps there is potential for collaboration or synergy.

https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/sail...2060?u=iampete

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/...3027960365056/

https://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/goog...-support/42267

[Greaser-Girl]

hallo in a fishigboat forum Swedish I do belive I found there is a board to upgrade a Robersontson AP1000 to NMEA 0183,,,130 $ some soul heard of it? If yes I cold work with opencnp, pypilot

[rgleason]

Sean has updated Pypilot to 0.9, the new ov42 and ov50 versions will be on the download page soon.

[a64pilot]

Originally Posted by rgleason

Is the CPT more miserly than ST4000?

I doubt it and if it is, it’s not likely by much.
In fact I’d bet CPT May use more power, reason is it’s way more powerful a motor, so if that power is used, surely it’s consuming more than a less powerful motor.

A wheel pilot is more miserly simply because it’s taking a rotary motion from an electric motor and using it directly, way less loss that way.

[ericoh88]

sailorchic34


nice box. I want buttons too at the helm. Problem is getting them waterproof. What type of buttons are you using?



Eric

[sailorxyz]

Originally Posted by ericoh88

sailorchic34


nice box. I want buttons too at the helm. Problem is getting them waterproof. What type of buttons are you using?



Eric

If you buy the Tinypilot from Sean, it comes with a remote, so no need for buttons. He charges very little more than the cost of the components, so it's a good deal. You can also get a bridge from him so as to connect it to your drive.

[ericoh88]

Originally Posted by sailorxyz

If you buy the Tinypilot from Sean, it comes with a remote, so no need for buttons. He charges very little more than the cost of the components, so it's a good deal. You can also get a bridge from him so as to connect it to your drive.

Yes yes I have ordered the controller and tinypilot from Sean. He is very helpful to answer my questions.

Will wire up a box with the buttons . Just trying to source waterproof ones .

Thanks

Eric

[tedcoats]

Hi,
Has anyone got an issue with the Linux version of the Pypilot plugin where the starboard hand course adjustments are very large numbers - in my case 4294967307.??? for what should be 2 deg to port. This produces a course change of 106deg to starboard.
This is in contrast to the Windows implementation of the plugin which seems to behave correctly in my case.
That small issue aside, thanks team for all the good work!
Cheers, Ted

[cmckinnonr]

This is very interesting. I would like to try it.
How does the AP Computer compare with the computer in the ST2000, a NAC-1, or the H5000?

The raymarine tiller pilot has difficulty holding AWA or course when the boat speed is over 7 Kts on my boat, no matter what settings I try.

I have seen all the videos about PyPilot and it seem very programmable. I'm sure it will only get better with time.


Thanks!