Radar plugin 5.3.0-beta released

[merrimac]

Originally Posted by Carryonsailing

PCAP file with data

let me know how I can do this for you and I will .

We will be updating the radar_pi wiki on github soonish with instructions as this keeps coming up and I hate doing things twice.

For now, can you tell me what the reported serial # and firmware date is. To find this, open the Info window (via Menu > Window > Info ...).

[merrimac]

Originally Posted by Carryonsailing

What I can add to you all is that I am using a 5g Router from linksys (the blue one

https://harddiskdirect.com/wrt54g-li...ntent=Category)

and it is the same quality as if I am directly plugged in via rj45.

This is not a '5g' (5 GHz?) router. It only supports 54 MBit/s so 802.11b (11 MBit/s) and 802.11g (54 MBit/s) on the 2.4 GHz band.

The reason this one might work is because it is so ancient.

Glad to hear it works for you. It doesn't for many others and we do not provide any support for non-WiFi radars over WiFi.

[Baikal]

Originally Posted by Douwe Fokkema

On the low resolution of the image: this is a radar issue, the plugin is following the radar. But I do not know a way to round off the pixels, may be someone else finds a solution for that. Indeed in shader mode there is some more softness.

It seems that the Q Experience project also did not find a solution to soften the edges of the radar image of the Quantum radar integration. You can only see that they are slightly softened.

[JohnGC]

Sorry for the late reply. It is an eS75.

[JohnGC]

Quantum
O on Windows 10
eS75

There should be images here but I don't seem able to post them from my phone. I'll try later from my laptop.

[JohnGC]

Originally Posted by JohnGC

Quantum
O on Windows 10
eS75

There should be images here but I don't seem able to post them from my phone. I'll try later from my laptop.

Trying the images as attachments

[Douwe Fokkema]

The latest Halo radars may not be recognized by radar_pi. This has been solved in the new radar_pi 5.3.2 beta release that is now available in the beta plugin catalog. An updated master release will come out soon.

Douwe

[Franziska]

Hi guys, I have some issues with a non NMEA 2000 network and the Navico interface box.
Could someone please be so kind and help with my questions?
I did already read the info on the OpenCPN website.

Here are the questions:
https://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...d.php?t=263985


Hardware connection Navico to OpenCPN NMEA 2000/0183

Thanks so much for replying over there.

[Hakan]

Originally Posted by Douwe Fokkema

The latest Halo radars may not be recognized by radar_pi. This has been solved in the new radar_pi 5.3.2 beta release that is now available in the beta plugin catalog. An updated master release will come out soon.

Douwe

The Beta update to stable Radar_pi 5.3.3 is now available on the plugin manager master catalog.

[Franziska]

Originally Posted by Hakan

The Beta update to stable Radar_pi 5.3.3 is now available on the plugin manager master catalog.

Hakan, could you be so kind to have a brief look at my recent thread, regarding the Navico setup?
I still have issues getting a signal from the radome. Thanks.

[Franziska]

Originally Posted by Hakan

The Beta update to stable Radar_pi 5.3.3 is now available on the plugin manager master catalog.

Btw. I'm on 5.3.3. and the radar can still not be found please have one more look. Thanks so much.

[Douwe Fokkema]

Originally Posted by Franziska

Btw. I'm on 5.3.3. and the radar can still not be found please have one more look. Thanks so much.

Franziska, could you send me a logfile (opencpn.log) of the session where the radar is not recognized? Before making this log, make a change to the opencpn.ini file. Find VerboseLog=0 and change this to VerboseLog=13. In case you are unable to make this change to the opencpn.ini, send me the log file anyway.

And don't forget to undo the change later.


Douwe

[Franziska]

Originally Posted by Douwe Fokkema

Franziska, could you send me a logfile (opencpn.log) of the session where the radar is not recognized? Before making this log, make a change to the opencpn.ini file. Find VerboseLog=0 and change this to VerboseLog=13. In case you are unable to make this change to the opencpn.ini, send me the log file anyway.

And don't forget to undo the change later.


Douwe

Hi Douwe,

thanks for looking also into this, I prepared the log file, do you have an email address where I can sent it to?
The forum software says it's bigger than 1000 bytes and does not allow to attach it. It has 385kb...

Kind regards,

Franziska

[Franziska]

Attached here after all.

Forum does not allow zip. Therefore rename the attached doc to zip, unzip and rename the resulting txt to log.

My boyfriend (the Sparky onboard) is just checking the cable between radar and PC.
It's brand new, so it should be OK.

[emoji846]opencpnDouwe.doc

[Franziska]

IT IS WORKING!! HORRAY!!

What made the difference?
For one part the crossover cable, and for the other, that the THICK black cable is the negative pole.
I was fooled by the attached drawing out of the B&G manual. There it appears that the thin wire is negative.
The shield wire is drawn bigger.
But, it turns out that this thin black wire is shield.

My boyfriend said it's odd that the negative would be thinner than the red positive.
We swapped it and, all is good.

So so happy!!!!