Marine OS for pi featuring OpenCPN and more reached release candidate 3

[mgrouch]

BBN Marine OS for raspberry pi reached release candidate 3 stage.
It’s available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions now.

Download links are below. If you use WiFi make sure you set up wifi country per “Getting Started Guide”

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/lysmarine_gen

Brief list of applications included:

Navigation, Instruments

OpenCPN and plugins
AvNav
GPSD
KPlex
SignalK and plugins
Freeboard-SK
SK Instrument Panel
KIP Dashboard
SKWiz Instrument Panel
PyPilot
BBN Launcher
SK Sail Gauge
XyGrib Weather GRIB Viewer App
Stellarium
CanBoat
Sail CAD
Race Instructions / Planning App
Vessel Specs App
ColReg
Sailing Trip and Provisioning Checklist
Knots
JTides
TukTuk chartplotter
Internet

Chromium Web Browser
Email Client
Internet Messaging Client (Empathy)
Youtube App
Facebook App
Internet Weather
Dockwa (Mooring and Marina Booking App)
NauticEd (Sailing Education)
Multimedia

Mopidy Media Player with Web UI (Youtube, Local List, Internet Radio, MPD support)
MusicBox (Music Player)
VLC (with IP camera support)
Audacious
MotionEye (Cameras Control)
shairport-sync (AirPlay)
Radio

RTL AIS, RTL SDR, GNSS SDR
Cubic SDR
Flarq
Fldigi
GNU Radio Companion
CuteSdr
GPredict
Gqrx
Hamfax RadioFax
JNX NavText
JWX WeatherFax
noaa-apt satellite weather
PreviSat Satellite Tracker
Quisk SDR
multimon-ng, netcat
Chirp
GNU AIS
Protocols

Samba (Windows Networking)
CUPS (printing)
VNC (remote desktop)
SSH (remote shell)
NMEA 0183
SocketCAN, NMEA 2000, can-utils
OpenVPN (Virtual Private Networking)
MQTT (Mosquitto) for IoT (to talk to Sonoff smart switches to switch on several devices like Radar, Windlass, Bow Thruster, Lights)
WiFi (Access Point and Client)
SignalK
Seatalk 1, GPIO
ModBus (to talk to Victron Venus OS, etc)
Timeshift (backups), rsync
PPP, wvdial, picocom for satellite modem support
I2C tools
1-Wire (sensors i.e. for temperature, humidity, pressure, tank levels)
LoRaWan
WeatherFax
NOAA Weather
NavTex
Inmarsat Fleet
SailMail / WinLink
SMS (Using Gammu)
Bluetooth (File Transfer)
AirPlay (via shairport-sync)
Tools

Text Editor
File Manager
Task Manager
Terminal Application
Image Viewer
Calculator
Calendar
Weather App
Chess
Card Game (Preferans)
OnBoard touch screen keyboard
Right click support on touchscreens
Arduino IDE
Java (OpenJDK)
Python
NodeJS
C/C++ Compiler and Toolset
Debian, NPM, PIP, Snap package managers
rpi-clone (SSD cloning)
Pi Imager, piclone
seahorse (Password Management)
Gammu (SMS Client)
Timeshift (backups)
Data

InfluxDB
Grafana
Add-ons via install scripts

QtVlm
DeskPi Pro support
ArgonOne case support
Text-To-Speech App
AnBox (experimental Android app support)
Touchscreen calibration
NMEA Sleuth Chromium Plugin
NodeRed
PACTOR
SdrGlut
WxToImg
OS Settings
Timezone Setup
Change Password
Predict (Satellite Tracker for scripting)
Scytale-C Inmarsat Decoders
Pat SailMail / WinLink
Getting Started

See: https://bareboat-necessities.github....reboat-os.html

[SVSOLITAIRE]

I am just putting my pi system together right now. I was going to download open plotter. This seems to be a cut above as far as features go. Given that I have zero interface experience with pi, would an os like this present too steep a learning curve in your opinion. I will be mainly using chart plotter, ais, weatherfax, but I’m super excited to implement any instrumentation I can through the system eventually.

[mgrouch]

Give it a try. I’ve grew up on Openplotter. It was inspirational. If you have some questions I’ll gladly try to answer

[SVSOLITAIRE]

Originally Posted by mgrouch

Give it a try. I’ve grew up on Openplotter. It was inspirational. If you have some questions I’ll gladly try to answer

Thank you. I’ll keep that in mind. One of my big hurdles is that I’ll be implementing/fine tuning the system from anchor thus no internet connection. Are there any books you would recommend that kind would fill some knowledge gaps? Or am I best off sticking to videos and articles?

[mgrouch]

Off anchor but with internet? You will be just fine installing this image and reading https://bareboat-necessities.github.io/my-bareboat/
And the links on it. Plus you can always shoot your questions. SignalK guys respond right away on their signalk-dev channel in slack mobile application for example. Without internet I’m not sure how are you finding right videos to watch or books. It takes internet to post to this forum too. It’s hard to replace internet accumulated knowledge with few books onboard. I do not know how familiar you are with Unix but basics would be editing files, finding files by a string match, deleting, creating, understanding some Unix shell commands and scripts. Can be done under anchor with a Unix book and reading man pages at an anchor (not recommended activity underway)

[Tahoe Cruiser]

This looks awesome. I am going to learn more about this foreign to me design and hopefully use some of this. I would like to get all my media storage running through this as well for movies and music.

[Peel]

I see that it supports VNC. Has anyone used this on a headless Raspberry Pi with remote monitoring from an iPad using VNC?

[SVSOLITAIRE]

Originally Posted by mgrouch

Off anchor but with internet? You will be just fine installing this image and reading https://bareboat-necessities.github.io/my-bareboat/
And the links on it. Plus you can always shoot your questions. SignalK guys respond right away on their signalk-dev channel in slack mobile application for example. Without internet I’m not sure how are you finding right videos to watch or books. It takes internet to post to this forum too. It’s hard to replace internet accumulated knowledge with few books onboard. I do not know how familiar you are with Unix but basics would be editing files, finding files by a string match, deleting, creating, understanding some Unix shell commands and scripts. Can be done under anchor with a Unix book and reading man pages at an anchor (not recommended activity underway)

That bareboat link is just what the doctor ordered. Thanks again. As far as internet goes, I’m using my phones data but I’m leaving the states in a week or so and that will end. I’m no stranger to coffee shops, libraries etc so I can download things the return to anchor.

[EarlWer]

Originally Posted by Peel

I see that it supports VNC. Has anyone used this on a headless Raspberry Pi with remote monitoring from an iPad using VNC?

They all support VNC server.
I just installed the VNC client on my Samsung S10+.
Works but... it's going to be interesting getting used to the differences between working on the RPi directly (mouse & keyboard) vs using the Android screen.

At least I can use the waterproof phone in the cockpit to view the chart...

[tanngrisnir]

Originally Posted by mgrouch

BBN Marine OS for raspberry pi reached release candidate 3 stage.
It’s available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions now.

Nice! will give it a try. Hats off to you for doing this, lots of effort keeping stuff up to date.

What is the underlying Linux it is based on?

Originally Posted by EarlWer

They all support VNC server.
I just installed the VNC client on my Samsung S10+.
Works but... it's going to be interesting getting used to the differences between working on the RPi directly (mouse & keyboard) vs using the Android screen.

Don't use VNC client but have been using my Android phone with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for a few years as my traveling UI ( termux on the phone and tmux/screen on the servers ). Probably not much use on deck but perhaps with VNC at least you don't need the Pi cabled up to a monitor and keyboard.

[Peel]

Originally Posted by tanngrisnir

Don't use VNC client but have been using my Android phone with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse for a few years as my traveling UI ( termux on the phone and tmux/screen on the servers ). Probably not much use on deck but perhaps with VNC at least you don't need the Pi cabled up to a monitor and keyboard.

That was my thinking cutting the cable between the Pi and your tablet. So nice to be able to use your device both in the cabin in the evening and in the cockpit underway, and trying to manage that with a long enough cable doesn't look appealing to me. But wirelessly, I'm all in!

[mgrouch]

What is the underlying Linux it is based on?

Raspberry Pi OS (Debian based)

[wellenvogel02]

Originally Posted by EarlWer

They all support VNC server.
I just installed the VNC client on my Samsung S10+.
Works but... it's going to be interesting getting used to the differences between working on the RPi directly (mouse & keyboard) vs using the Android screen.

At least I can use the waterproof phone in the cockpit to view the chart...

As an alternative you can just go for the apps that are Browser based ( a couple of them being included).
They are typically easier to be used on mobile devices.
So you can use devices of your choice - they only need a browser on them.
And typically you can easily use multiple devices.

[mgrouch]

This OS image is designed to work nice with a cockpit display.

You can combine it with something like this screen

https://m.alibaba.com/product/608643...1000-nits.html

More on it here https://www.sihovision.com/industria...control-1.html

Model: SL07W, Brand Sihovision, Capacitive Touch Screen 7 inch, (1000 nits), IP65

And it should make workable and not expensive solution for a boat computer with cockpit display with chartplotters, AIS, instruments, music player, cameras front end, touchscreen, sunlight readable.

[EarlWer]

I am trying to understand the difference between the BBN Marine OS for raspberry pi
and the OpenPlotter version at https://openmarine.net/openplotter

Is this a fork of OpenPlotter? or a bunch of add-on applications?

What's the advantage of BBN Marine?
What's the disadvantage of BBN Marine ;-)