Andreas,
As far as I know the plugins work on Ubuntu on x86 and Rpi ARM OpenCPN we use them on both.
We did a lot of testing today onboard. Had some issues with the auto-detection of the USB
ports and baud rates. Also did not work properly after a restart and locked the
AIS usb port out. Had to do a hard reset of the DY AIT5K and AVNAV to get the ACM0 port back. Eventually we hard coded the correct baud rates. Seems fine now.
Finding our way with the filtering. We couldn't work out how send
wind data to the AP or see what it was actually sending out. Sailing yacht so sail to
wind and other AP functions need the wind data. The USB0 connection is setup as combined and is connected to the 85001 and gets some ST1 data via
NMEA and we want to send specific data back onto the ST1
network via the 85001 like RMB APB Wind etc. The 6001+ also show other data like a repeater screen if it has the data.
The UDPWriter seems to send out the full muxed stream which allowed us to connect other things like navionics
boating app etc. and see position and
AIS data. We may be duplicating functionality as we saw a broadcast button. Does that mean if we config a specific port on the local machine as the
destination and tick the broadcast button it will send to the broadcast address anyway.
Currently, we are sending to 192.168.0.255 as the
destination.
Things feel a little clunky and simplistic (not a bad thing) compared to OpenCPN but we like the interface. There seems to be some artefacts on the rendered
charts and areas that a re missing at certain zoom levels. We don't see this with the same
charts on OpenCPN.
We need to tweak the layouts and noticed that each device connecting does not get the modified layouts but a standard layout. e.g. we created a new layout (4) and put some data on it. But connecting from the tablet it still saw the default 3 instrument pages. Do we have to modify the layout from every device?
We have not yet gone sailing with this new setup, just testing in the marina. AP output does work as we see the BRG and DST on the old
raymarine RL80C plotter so the
route is being send to the ST1 network.
We will continue testing.
Cheers
Spart