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Pypilot on motorboat - hakahl - 2020-02-18

Marine newbie here.

Planning to buy a boat and as a open source/computer nerd I quickly found Openplotter and Pypilot. Pypilot seems to be developed on a/for sailboats and most (all?) installations are on sailboats. Are there any motorboat users out there?  How is it working? I guess it is way more complicated to calculate courses for a sailboat. Would that make the autopilot too complex for a small (~20 ft) motorboat?


RE: Pypilot on motorboat - holgerw - 2020-02-18

(2020-02-18, 10:47 AM)hakahl Wrote: Are there any motorboat users out there?  How is it working? I guess it is way more complicated to calculate courses for a sailboat. Would that make the autopilot too complex for a small (~20 ft) motorboat?

on Sea the Pypilot should work - even without wind sensors.
But don´t try it on small rivers.