2020-01-16, 08:17 PM
Thanks for the nice review of my projects.
If I understand you correctly you want to send the signal both to the Arduino and the ESP8266 ? This sounds a bit tricky. I would suggest connecting a small ESP8266 module (they come in two sizes) to the Arduino and using the wifi to send it to SignalK. I have played a little bit with it and it's no problem of sending things from Arduino to the ESP8266 over a serial connection and then sending a SignalK string to OpenPlotter's SignalK server. I did some work on this using a watt meter for domestic use, never really finished but the code (on github) should get you started. There are a lot of projects exploring this on the net so you should not have to write too much code.
Have fun,
Ole
If I understand you correctly you want to send the signal both to the Arduino and the ESP8266 ? This sounds a bit tricky. I would suggest connecting a small ESP8266 module (they come in two sizes) to the Arduino and using the wifi to send it to SignalK. I have played a little bit with it and it's no problem of sending things from Arduino to the ESP8266 over a serial connection and then sending a SignalK string to OpenPlotter's SignalK server. I did some work on this using a watt meter for domestic use, never really finished but the code (on github) should get you started. There are a lot of projects exploring this on the net so you should not have to write too much code.
Have fun,
Ole
Ole W. Saastad
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web : https://www.homelinux.no https://algol.homelinux.no
https://github.com/olewsaa/Yacht-computer
twitter : olewsaa