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Forum: Navigation 28-04-2022, 22:11
Replies: 32
Views: 5,610
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Open Source Marine Linux for Raspberry Pi

Has anyone used this sw with the moitessier hat? How to configure the connection for gps, ais from this hat without openplotter?
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 25-03-2022, 23:12
Replies: 29
Views: 4,749
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Singlehanded, sailing out the anchor.

If it's your vessel get a remote control and raise your anchor from the cockpit. All this rushing forth and back will eventually just hurt you
Forum: OpenCPN 09-03-2022, 22:00
Replies: 2,451
Views: 369,176
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Weather Routing

I have raised FS#2361 - show which grib file is used for calculation already in tracker
And earlier FS#2354 - export routing - weatherroute logbook - see there the attachment screenshot, column...
Forum: OpenCPN 28-02-2022, 01:18
Replies: 11
Views: 3,141
Posted By skipperearly
Re: AIS Decoder

If you are on raspberry platform what you look for is available in openplotter
see https://openmarine.net/openplotter
Forum: OpenCPN 24-02-2022, 12:17
Replies: 2,451
Views: 369,176
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Weather Routing

% and time! - this would help to calculate e.g. engine hrs

Would value also an user configurable (column selection) route-book
- time steps eg 10min, 30min, 1 hr, 3 hrs etc
- different...
Forum: OpenCPN 20-02-2022, 08:25
Replies: 2,451
Views: 369,176
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Weather Routing

Mea culpa - sorry, dont know why but I had tried this and somehow never saw the "weather_route Position" - my fault - sorry for the trouble.
Forum: OpenCPN 18-02-2022, 22:37
Replies: 2,451
Views: 369,176
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Weather Routing

.... and after update: all existing positions and routings are lost :banghead:
there is a warning that boat configuration will get overwritten but that is definitely not sufficient warning that all...
Forum: OpenCPN 18-02-2022, 21:57
Replies: 2,451
Views: 369,176
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Weather Routing

had raised my input at https://opencpn.org/flyspray/index.php?project=32&do=index&switch=1 and have made entries there for others to follow up - add and vote. Is flyspray not used any more?
Forum: OpenCPN 12-02-2022, 23:23
Replies: 2,451
Views: 369,176
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Weather Routing

Quote:
Originally Posted by rgleason View Post
Comments inline.

1) enable position input via curser on map canvas
- Right click on the position and create a Weather Position and name it?...
Forum: OpenCPN 12-02-2022, 22:35
Replies: 9
Views: 600
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Polar for WR

It's the Allure 459
Forum: OpenCPN 12-02-2022, 22:33
Replies: 9
Views: 600
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Polar for WR

I may prefer not to use the spi at night - or a reef or similar when making rout planing.
Maybe a reduced % efficiency at certain time slots could solve that, alternatively restrict usage of some...
Forum: OpenCPN 12-02-2022, 06:26
Replies: 9
Views: 600
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Polar for WR

Thanks for swift advise.
Just typing the figures into one polar table seems to be straight forward, but where will I then see the sail changes when I plan with the WR pi?
I may like to avoid sail...
Forum: OpenCPN 11-02-2022, 23:54
Replies: 9
Views: 600
Posted By skipperearly
Polar for WR

I received the attached polar information from the yard and seek advice how to create the boat data to be used in WR.

I understand that different sail configs should be in separate polar tables....
Forum: OpenCPN 11-02-2022, 23:37
Replies: 2,451
Views: 369,176
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Weather Routing

Have added them as 3 different requests in https://opencpn.org/flyspray/index.php?do=tasklist&project=32

Please vote for them to raise attention. :whistling:
Forum: OpenCPN 11-02-2022, 08:56
Replies: 2,451
Views: 369,176
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Weather Routing

feature request for WR pi:
1) enable position input via curser on map canvas
2) display positions in standard coordinate notation dd mm.mm N dd mm.mm W
3) enable editing of position e.g....
Forum: OpenCPN 11-02-2022, 01:42
Replies: 4
Views: 390
Posted By skipperearly
Climatology pi 1.4 - resizing & fonts

I use Climatology pi version 1.4 under Win the fonts for day and also details of wind and current do not show completely. See attached screenshot

Can anyone advise where to download "better"...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 28-11-2021, 21:42
Replies: 408
Views: 52,881
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Watch Keeping Single Handing

Have a look at OSCAR https://www.oscar-navigation.com/ -
Might be outside your budget though
Forum: OpenCPN 28-11-2021, 21:20
Replies: 4
Views: 1,036
Posted By skipperearly
Re: BBN Marine Linux OS for Raspberry Pi long-term-support version 4 released

I tried with rpi3+ and found response time too sluggish to be useful
Forum: OpenCPN 28-11-2021, 21:17
Replies: 41
Views: 6,678
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Navtex Plugin

They come with a little Windows program to display messages and barograh data. I never bothered, but it shouldn't be too difficult to reengineer this for other platforms.
Forum: OpenCPN 26-11-2021, 22:52
Replies: 11
Views: 1,373
Posted By skipperearly
Re: opencpn.ini Configuration File

Probably the best would be to include a cleaning of the ini file in the save/recover template function.
Forum: OpenCPN 21-11-2021, 20:43
Replies: 9
Views: 881
Posted By skipperearly
Re: AIS Collision Avoidance Alarm Query

Is this the AISradar.pi running independently of opencpn? How is the pi started?
Forum: OpenCPN 10-10-2021, 13:00
Replies: 16
Views: 5,420
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Monitor touch screen recommendations for openplotter?

Could this also be installed somehow on a Samsung Tablet which is currently Android?
Forum: OpenCPN 09-10-2021, 22:27
Replies: 89
Views: 11,679
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Interoperability between OpenCPN(s) & Devices

... and combine it with the suggestion in another treaty to have time setting for switching between the modes at predefined times.
Please put it into fly spray so we can vote for it!
Forum: OpenCPN 14-07-2021, 00:22
Replies: 3
Views: 776
Posted By skipperearly
Re: No AIS targets

This has happened to me as well and I found it somehow dangerous. Wouldn't it be possible to add to the hamburger bar an AIS icon which indicates by color code that AIS targets are received / are...
Forum: OpenCPN 04-07-2021, 08:16
Replies: 3,473
Views: 751,517
Posted By skipperearly
Re: Feature Requests

Would like to raise a request for a "autosave" mode. Ocpn saves routes, navobj.xml , changes in the ini file and maybe other only when user closes the program properly. Specially on raspis this...
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