NMEA plugin for 4.4?

[CarCode]

Pavel,

buy one and then come back please.

Gerhard

[conachair]

Originally Posted by CarCode

conachair,

do you have an iKommunicate?
There are several misleading informations in their manual. People might think it has WiFi but it has not. Only a few PGNs of the NMEA2000 protocol are supported but that is the fact of most such gateways.

Gerhard

I don't but was considering getting one, from what your saying either you have problems or digital yacht are telling huge fibs.

https://digitalyacht.net/tag/ikommunicate/

"Digital Yacht have introduced iKConnect – a compact wifi router "

"Re-transmits all of the NMEA0183 and some of the NMEA2000 data it receives in to TCP or UDP network data"

[nohal]

Originally Posted by CarCode

Pavel,

buy one and then come back please.

Gerhard

Gerhard...

Please, as usually, back your claims with facts and links to existing documents, or don't bother to waste your time posting them - we unfortunately have no other option but to consider them misleading or false in such a case.

Thank you

Pavel

[CarCode]

Originally Posted by conachair

I don't but was considering getting one, from what your saying either you have problems or digital yacht are telling huge fibs.

https://digitalyacht.net/tag/ikommunicate/

"Digital Yacht have introduced iKConnect – a compact wifi router "

"Re-transmits all of the NMEA0183 and some of the NMEA2000 data it receives in to TCP or UDP network data"

I'm afraid DigitalYacht does not do themselfes a favour. The iKommunicate has only an ethernet connector and no WiFi. And it is called a gateway to Signal K and not a gateway between NMEA0183/NMEA2000.
A hint for Pavel when he wants to program the output of iKommunicate for OpenCPN: All output of iKommunicate uses SI units for all units. So e.g. the temperature in the example output of iKommunicate attached here is in degrees Kelvin and so 273 must be subtracted to get centigrade degrees.

Gerhard

[nohal]

Gerhard...
So many words, even a picture, and nothing to the subject Can it transmit NMEA0183 or not? Are both the labels of those checkoxes in the configuration interface and the manual a lie?

I am well aware of SignalK specification using SI units, but consider it completely irrelevant to our current debate.

Thank you for clarification, but please try to follow the subject

Pavel

[CarCode]

Pavel,

see my advice in posting #16 above.

Gerhard

[conachair]

Originally Posted by CarCode

I'm afraid DigitalYacht does not do themselfes a favour. The iKommunicate has only an ethernet connector and no WiFi.

What do you term as wifi?

The manual explains how to transmit nmea 0183 data over wifi udp & tcp - are you saying this is wrong and it can't?

[nohal]

Originally Posted by CarCode

Pavel,

see my advice in posting #16 above.

Gerhard

Gerhard...
I see it, but it unfortunately adds exactly nothing to the validity of your claims. As you can see I'm not he only one eager for your clarification as given DigitalYacht's record it is kind of hard to believe they would be misleading their users in the manual and even their own dealers in https://digitalyacht.files.wordpress...n-apr-2016.pdf (page 6)

Pavel

[CarCode]

Originally Posted by conachair

What do you term as wifi?

WiFi is the wireless transmit.
A router might have ethernet connectors for cables and/or a WiFi chip with antennas to transmit wireless also.

Gerhard

[conachair]

Originally Posted by CarCode

I'm afraid DigitalYacht does not do themselfes a favour. The iKommunicate has only an ethernet connector and no WiFi.

You appear to be correct.
A quick read of the manual confims this..
"The iKommunicate can be used in the following configurations;
1) Directly connected to a PC or Mac via its supplied network cable in an Ad-Hoc network
2) In conjunction with a Digital Yacht iKConnect or iNavConnect wireless router if you do not already have an
Ethernet network on your boat
3) Connected to the boat’s existing Ethernet network via the supplied network cable"

This still doesn't explain why the manual describes how to transmit nmea through the network , you state that this is not possible, even with the configuration set to to transmit over udp/tcp?

[TheOffice]

I got mine to transmit from my plotter to OpenCPN over TCP with a CAT5 cable.

It does not have built in wifi unfortunately.

[nohal]

Originally Posted by TheOffice

I got mine to transmit from my plotter to OpenCPN over TCP with a CAT5 cable.

It does not have built in wifi unfortunately.

Good to hear. Looks like we do not need any more clarification from Gerhard

[CarCode]

Originally Posted by conachair

You appear to be correct.
A quick read of the manual confims this..
"The iKommunicate can be used in the following configurations;
1) Directly connected to a PC or Mac via its supplied network cable in an Ad-Hoc network
2) In conjunction with a Digital Yacht iKConnect or iNavConnect wireless router if you do not already have an
Ethernet network on your boat
3) Connected to the boat’s existing Ethernet network via the supplied network cable"

This still doesn't explain why the manual describes how to transmit nmea through the network , you state that this is not possible, even with the configuration set to to transmit over udp/tcp?

You should read what the manual say and not what you want to have. The manual say the iKommunicate is a gateway between NMEA0183/NMEA2000 to Signal K. Therefore its name is iKommunicate where the K stands for Signal K communication.
Since the output of the iKommunicate is an ethernet connector it must sends its data of course using either TCP or UDP.

Gerhard

[nohal]

Gerhard...
Enough. That you are not able to accept that you were wrong, less to say "sorry" is a known fact, but please stop this madness and read what the documents say, not what you would like them to say to support your claims, which have already proven to be wrong as the OP has what he wanted.

Thank you

Pavel

[conachair]

Originally Posted by CarCode

You should read what the manual say and not what you want to have. The manual say the iKommunicate is a gateway between NMEA0183/NMEA2000 to Signal K. Therefore its name is iKommunicate where the K stands for Signal K communication.
Since the output of the iKommunicate is an ethernet connector it must sends its data of course using either TCP or UDP.

Gerhard

Question still stands, reading the manual it describes how to transmit nmea 0183 over a network yet you say this is not possible, is the manual wrong? Seems unlikely.

This still doesn't explain why the manual describes how to transmit nmea through the network , you state that this is not possible, even with the configuration set to to transmit over udp/tcp?