Garmin Plotter to Raymarine autopilot

[Stuart Bruce]

Hello all I have just installed a Raymarine Autopilot in my small Antares 710. I connected it up to my old Garmin GPSmap 4010 plotter. Which all seems to be working as it should. The autopilot is working well in normal auto mode. The issue is when I ask the pilot to track a route on my Garmin plotter. The pilot seems to track and turn at waypoints and do all it should. But I’m getting an annoying constant alarm saying turn to waypoint 1 ether port or starboard or straight ahead. As long as I keep pushing yes on the Raymarine head unit it will work as it should. But obviously this isn’t any use. Raymarine says it’s alarming because of data coming out the plotter. I’m wondering if I could turn of any of the data output sentences to stop the alarming?

[ranger58sb]

Sounds like maybe normal activity, to me.

There's maybe a setting on the AP that allows you to activate alarms for all waypoints along a given route, but alarms as you first activate a route are common I think. At least I think you're describing the way our Ray AP behaves...

-Chris

[Stuart Bruce]

Thanks for your reply Chris I would expect an alarm when I first activate track mode. But the pilot alarms constantanty when in track mode some times just 1-2 secs apart at most you might get 5secs I will wear the yes button out in no time ��Just thought some one might have had the some issue it’s not a huge issue I’ll just use the pilot in auto.

[ranger58sb]

Check setting for cross tracker error (XTE) parameters?

Might be set very tight, whereas some slop in the setting might reduce alarms?

-Chris

[wholybee]

What Raymarine autopilot is it, and is it connected via Seatalk, NMEA0183, or NMEA2000? Any converters in the mix?

First, the Raymarine autopilot is ridiculously overaggressive about needing you to confirm everything. That said, it SHOULD only ask about waypoint changes, when you reach a new waypoint. But I have seen this before, and I think it is the result of the chartplotter occasionally resending the same waypoint information. That is, it sends the waypoint and then all eh navigation data needed for steering. The autopilot steers via that data, and then the same waypoint is sent again. I am not positive of that, however.

The best workaround I am aware of is that Yacht Devices converters will recognize the AP asking for input, and send the enter key input automatically which effectively disables that idiotic feature of the Raymarine AP. This would work if the AP is NMEA2000, and your chartplotter had an NMEA0183 output.

Others have said that if you put the AP in motor vessel mode instead of sail mode it disables it. I found that not to be the case, and it changed the response such that it didn't work well. But you could try it.

[Stuart Bruce]

It’s a Raymarine EV-100 with p70rs controler. No boxes in network set up I used a Raymarine STNG to NMEA2000 Backbone Adaptor Cable. To go from Raymarine pilot network to my NMEA network. Used one blue seatalk end and the other end is the black NEMA end. Hope this makes sense.


Cheers Stuart

[wholybee]

I suspect the issue is what I first suggested, that the Garmin is sending information about the next waypoint periodically, and the Raymarine is interpreting that as a change in course, even though it isn't. Probably no easy fix.

That is only my guess, you would need to put a device on the n2k network and log it to know for sure.

[cram]

Can you connect the garmin and autopilot via nmea183 instead?

[smac999]

Raymarine pilots you have to confirm each route turn. It’s a safety thing.

Are you following a manual route or auto guidance?

[Stuart Bruce]

It’s a manual route I put on the plotter. Yes as I said before I would expect it at every waypoint. But not every 1-3 sec. I’m just going to use in auto not track mode. I would need someone with more idea as me to come look at it. Thanks for all the reply’s

Cheers Stuart

[cottonsail]

I bought a Raymarine Axiom to run the autopilot. It works great running the EV 100 autopilot. Initially I had mega problems with the Navionics chips. The first 2 chips were defective. The third one is a charm. I do all my routes on a large iPad and transfer the route to the Axiom and the EV-100 will follow the route.