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Forum: Monohull Sailboats 31-01-2022, 11:33
Replies: 69
Views: 14,881
Posted By dominig
Re: Center Cockpits: pros and cons

CC boat are mostly from Northern Europe an area where the sea can be cold.
This is where lies the biggest advantage of CC. You are further from the water and so you are less wet and so less cold....
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 29-10-2021, 08:19
Replies: 155
Views: 35,214
Posted By dominig
When back to Wabesto because of the noise.

Hello,


I have done the opposite when my Chinese died, I have replaced it with a Wabesto. Yes it's more expensive but when it run, it does not do any noise. Since the swap I can sleep with the...
Forum: OpenCPN 10-12-2020, 07:46
Replies: 2,880
Views: 649,707
Posted By dominig
Re: Beta Test / Technical

This seems to be using Fedora / Centos. How is it different from any other flavor of Linux?
*RESP*

Redpesk is based on Fedora/Centos packages. Centos packages are maintained during 10 years for a...
Forum: OpenCPN 10-12-2020, 00:21
Replies: 2,880
Views: 649,707
Posted By dominig
Opening to the community of Redpesk@SEA the open source "Marine Grade Linux" by IoT.

Hello,


our boats last long and our electronic equipment are often more than 10 years old. Keeping an updated Linux on old platforms is a complex already on PC but on embedded platforms (non PC)...
Forum: OpenCPN 02-12-2020, 07:54
Replies: 4
Views: 652
Posted By dominig
Re: Installing/Building on Centos 8

I do maintain rpm for OpenSUSE builds and I had in the past also maintain Fedora version. I must be honest and maintaining OpenCPN is more and more difficult as the make files for the plugins have...
Forum: OpenCPN 26-08-2020, 06:47
Replies: 134
Views: 17,966
Posted By dominig
Re: OS Linux specific

Sorry for late reply, but I missed that message. I will look at it while I package the version 5.2 of OpenCPN.
For info it's faster to report bugs directly via OpenSUSE to the package owner...
Forum: Marine Electronics 12-11-2019, 05:53
Replies: 3
Views: 1,948
Posted By dominig
Re: Feedback of Garmin Echo Map Plus 72CV (afer 2months use at sea)

If you need a converter I can only recommand Shipmodule Miniplex-3.
ShipModul Marine Electronics (https://www.shipmodul.com/en/index.html)


They works flawless and provide compatibility between...
Forum: Marine Electronics 15-07-2019, 09:30
Replies: 54
Views: 30,799
Posted By dominig
Re: Garmin vs Raymarine

It's easy to interface older Raymarine (and new) with any NMEA 183 or NMEA 2000 equipment (at least for the standardised mesurement e.g. wind, depth, compas).
As the Raymarine legacy bus (seatalk,...
Forum: Marine Electronics 15-07-2019, 07:54
Replies: 54
Views: 30,799
Posted By dominig
Re: Garmin vs Raymarine

I have Garmin and Raymarine system on my boat (one atthe helm one inside).
I would certainly not buy anymore Garmin.
The support is "nice" but hopeless at correcting problem. Asking me 3 times, if...
Forum: OpenCPN 12-12-2018, 01:47
Replies: 907
Views: 122,696
Posted By dominig
Re: Tactics Plugin

Good Morning

the issue with weather routing and weather fax are a compilation error.
I have create bugs in Github but I guess that Sean is out at sea because I had no return in 2 weeks.
The...
Forum: OpenCPN 11-12-2018, 13:39
Replies: 907
Views: 122,696
Posted By dominig
Re: Tactics Plugin

The web site indicates that there is no Linux version.
I have packaged and built tactics for Linux OpenSUSE.
It's still in my sandbox with 4.8.8 (weatherrouting and wetherfax are not building :-(...
Forum: Marine Electronics 30-11-2018, 07:11
Replies: 251
Views: 25,035
Posted By dominig
Re: Is the radar an obsolete equipment? For me YES.

Even if I sail in very rocky and challenging waters (Brittany & UK), I would assert that if my Radar went to fail, I would not replace it, as it usage is becoming less an less valuable, while its...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 08-10-2018, 09:34
Replies: 300
Views: 42,232
Posted By dominig
Re: Horrible Guests, Terrible Crew

Your sorry is sad, but welcoming guest on board fortunately can also work fine.I sailed this summer for 3 months in Northern Scotland with crew taken from French and English and I used the same...
Forum: Marine Electronics 22-06-2018, 08:41
Replies: 3
Views: 1,948
Posted By dominig
Feedback of Garmin Echo Map Plus 72CV (afer 2months use at sea)

Dear friends sailor,


having recently installed a Garmin chart plotter Echo Plus 72cv on my boat, I wanted to share with you my good and less good experience.


1) my need
========
I sail a...
Forum: OpenCPN 04-09-2017, 00:57
Replies: 204
Views: 30,312
Posted By dominig
Forum: OpenCPN 04-09-2017, 00:52
Replies: 204
Views: 30,312
Posted By dominig
Re: OpenCPN Version 4.8.0 AIS, Tide and Current Icon out of size With Screenshot.

Sorry .png attazchement seems to fail silently
Will try with.jpg
Forum: OpenCPN 31-08-2017, 04:42
Replies: 2,880
Views: 649,707
Posted By dominig
S63 oeSENC tag lost with upgrade from OpenSUSE 42.2 to 42.3

Huber,

I am afraid that having upgraded my Desktop from 42.1 to 42.3 I have lost the capability to read S63 and oeSENC chart with the exisiting tag.

On my Laptop where I have only upgrade...
Forum: OpenCPN 31-08-2017, 04:20
Replies: 204
Views: 30,312
Posted By dominig
OpenCPN Version 4.8.0 AIS, Tide and Current Icon out of size

Hello,

just having build OpenCPN 4.8 for OpenSUSE and publsihed it in my sandbox, I see that something is incorrect in the screen size adjustment.
Screen size is well detected (510mm) in my case...
Forum: OpenCPN 31-08-2017, 03:51
Replies: 2,880
Views: 649,707
Posted By dominig
OpenCPN 4.8.0 Beta available for final test under OpenSUSE

Hello,

I have just published in in my sandbox a candidate of OpenCPN 4.8.0 for OpenSUSE.
Having only completed my tests from my office, I will only publish, in the official repos, after more...
Forum: OpenCPN 25-06-2017, 03:13
Replies: 1,918
Sticky: OpenCPN General
Views: 583,885
Posted By dominig
Re: Weatherfax test file

Weatherfax is a plugin that receives fax via the audio card and decode them.
I would be interrested to get some audio test file that I can play in my lab to check that the plugin is actually...
Forum: OpenCPN 23-06-2017, 05:42
Replies: 1,918
Sticky: OpenCPN General
Views: 583,885
Posted By dominig
Re: OpenCPN General

Thanks for the heading on Weatherfax update.
New version is now published for OpenSUSE, update is automatic for users.

Dominig

P.S. I would be interrested by a set of test files and model for...
Forum: OpenCPN 09-05-2017, 03:07
Replies: 2,880
Views: 649,707
Posted By dominig
NMEA sentense used to show "real steering"

Since I have changed my boat, I do not see the actual steering but only the actual route (GPS) steering.

When I play old log NMEA file, I still see it (so it's not an OpenCPN bug).
I guess that...
Forum: OpenCPN 09-05-2017, 03:01
Replies: 3,473
Views: 753,652
Posted By dominig
Local tide indicator

In Brittany we love our tides but seeing the level of water raising from 5m to 14m twice a day depending where you are can induce some "side effect".

B&G latest tools alllow to display on an...
Forum: OpenCPN 09-05-2017, 02:55
Replies: 3,473
Views: 753,652
Posted By dominig
reporting depth on a given route

One of the pain and risk of electronic routing is to route over shalow waters without noticing it until too late.
One must review the entire route with a detailled scale what is a pain. Not doing it...
Forum: OpenCPN 09-05-2017, 02:30
Replies: 2,880
Views: 649,707
Posted By dominig
oesenc web page miss OpenSUSE

Hello,

I noticed that you created a dedicated page for oesenc plugin which is a good idea.
- https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/plugins/oesenc.html
It would be nice to add the link to the OpenSUSE...
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