Tactics Plugin

[ojessie]

Thank you. Certainly, will wait and install it.

Best

[ojessie]

I'm sorry to say, but still not working. Attached are 2 screen shots. One with the standard dashboard and the working baro and the other one shows your version 1.0.29.1. You see there is a small problem with the icon on the toolbar as well. But this was already there with the previous version.

[rgleason]

I see this, where is the baro signal coming from a file or an instrument?
Also please check the non-dial baro instrument.

[ojessie]

It's coming from my BME280 sensor connected to my Raspberry GPIO. It's not working. All baro instruments are working in the standard dashboard non of them in tactics.

[stevead]

If you are using a RaspberryPi, is it safe to presume you are also using NodeRed to read the GPIO bus and also SignalK ?

Rick, I have no idea what version or flavour of a Tactics Dashboard the OP is referring to.

If it is this version of dashboard_tactics in your repository, then in dashboard_pi.cpp there is no processing of the signalk stream "environment.outside.pressure",

whereas there is processing of that SignalK stream in the "normal" built-in dashboard.

Clearly a lack of feature parity between different plugins ?

[ojessie]

To be honest I don't know if I'm using NodeRed, but I don't think so. What I did is read the forums, understood that BME is used here and users are more or less happy with it. Bought one, read the manual, installed the python libraries, enabled i2c on Rasbperry and on SignalK and it worked. Worked with the "standard" dashboard in opencpn but with non of the extented versions. Like tactics-pi.

[ojessie]

another "small" issue ... nothing to do with dashboard, but I thought perhaps you are the right ones who can help me. When it comes to barometric data the sensor shows the "wrong" values. Appr. 20 hpa too less. As far as I understand it the file openplotterI2cRead. py is initializing the sensor (a couple of more) Is it possible to calibrate (offset) the sensor here in the section BME280 under pressure Key: pressureOffset?

import socket, time, threading, board, busio
from openplotterSettings import conf
from .ms5607 import Ms5607

def work_BME280(name,data):

def getPaths(value,value2,key,offset,raw):
Erg = ''
if value2:
try:
value3 = float(value2)
Erg += '{"path": "'+key+'","value":'+str(offset+value3)+'},'
except: Erg += '{"path": "'+key+'","value":"'+str(value2)+'"},'
else: Erg += '{"path": "'+key+'","value": null},'
if raw and value:
try:
value4 = float(value)
Erg += '{"path": "'+key+'.raw","value":'+str(value4)+'},'
except: Erg += '{"path": "'+key+'.raw","value":"'+str(value)+'"},'
return Erg

pressureKey = data['data'][0]['SKkey']
temperatureKey = data['data'][1]['SKkey']
humidityKey = data['data'][2]['SKkey']

if pressureKey or temperatureKey or humidityKey:
from adafruit_bme280 import basic as adafruit_bme280

address = data['address']
i2c = busio.I2C(board.SCL, board.SDA)
sensor = adafruit_bme280.Adafruit_BME280_I2C(i2c, address=int(address, 16))

if pressureKey:
pressureRaw = data['data'][0]['raw']
pressureRate = data['data'][0]['rate']
pressureOffset = data['data'][0]['offset']
if temperatureKey:
temperatureRaw = data['data'][1]['raw']
temperatureRate = data['data'][1]['rate']
temperatureOffset = data['data'][1]['offset']
if humidityKey:
humidityRaw = data['data'][2]['raw']
humidityRate = data['data'][2]['rate']
humidityOffset = data['data'][2]['offset']

Thanks

[rgleason]

Yes dashboard-tactics signalk may not be processing.
Damn thing deleted what I wrote.
Stevead has it correct. Tactics has no signalk.
Hakan has been improving builtin dashboard.
We should get those updates into dash-t someday.

I dont have time for these problems.

[rgleason]

Make a new issue in my git tactics repos please.

[rgleason]

@Ojessie You might be able to correct this problem with nemaconverter_pi look it up and read the manual.

Originally Posted by rgleason

Make a new issue in my git tactics repos please.

[Geoff s]

My work around for this is to get signalk to output NMEA0183, go to signalk login and in plugin config select "convert Signalk to NMEA0183" and put in a new connection in opencpn with TCP localhost and data port 10110 that seems to work for the BMP280 pressure, it also allows data from an actisence NGT-1 to be read and processed by dashboardT and tactics

[Hakan]

A hint for Tactics plugin developer(s)
Since Tactics is based on a copy of Dashboard:
We found serious "bad" code in Dashboard for the wind and barometer history graphs.
The method to draw the graph on screen using 3000 data points was very inefficient. It some cases it actually consumed more than 1000 ms to draw the entire graph. Every second! That implied a serious data collection disturbance so the data sources was halted for the entire OCPN.

Dave had a solution so now it use ~30-50 ms instead.
Pls study this commit for wind history graph. Row ~590
and a similar for barometer history graph. Row ~340

[rgleason]

Tactics 1.0.35 trial

Problem: Font Sizes for high res screens (250% )
FontTitle - 13
FontData - 28
FontLabel - 13
FontSmall - 13

[Hakan]

Pls compare corresponding changes to Dashboard to scale fonts and more for scaled Windows.
For example dashboard_pi.cpp : ~3100. if (dialog->ShowModal() == wxID_OK

[Schnapsy]

Hi,

I noticed that the depth data remains displayed even if the data connection nmea is interrupted, unlike the classic dashboard where this problem was fixed.

This can cause problems when sailing in coastal.
Would it be possible, in case of interruption of nmea flows, that this data displayed on the Tactics dashboard disappear as like in the classic dashboard ?