Yacht Devices NMEA2k to Raspberry Pi

[rejas]

Hi!

I'm about to replace our Actisense NGW-1-ISO to a new device between NMEA2k and our Raspberry Pi running OpenPlotter.

I'm looking at the devices from Yacht Devices. They have (at least) three options.

1. NMEA2k -> WiFi -> R-Pi (YDWG-02)
2. NMEA2k -> USB -> R-Pi (YDNU-02)
3. NMEA2k -> Ethernet -> R-Pi (YDEN-02)

I have ruled the first one out since there is a big overlap in the functionality we already have. And I kind of like cables.

My plan was to go over USB as a drop in replacement for my current solution, but then I saw the third choice that seems to be quite new. It still has a cable, but it will rely on a switch (that is already there). I do like the web dashboard it has. There is an overlap in functionality and the power consumption is higher.

All this is most because it is fun and we don't really need it to navigate.

Do any of you have any experience of these devices? Do you have some thoughts I missed? Would you go for 2 or 3 or something completely different?