2020-07-12, 12:10 AM
Hello Folks,
THe anchor watch in Open CPN could be enhanced with an important feature: it happens many times that sailors go to shore for shopping/eating out/etc. and leave their boat at anchor. If the boat starts to drag anchor during that time, no notification gets to the sailor. In such a situation, the sailor is often outside any wifi range -without a local simcard even 3g coverage is in question. The current anchor alarm in Open CPN does have an option to add a non-defined command - this command could be coded in a way that the anchor alarm would trigger a call or sms notification to a preset phone number.
I would hire someone who can code such a command. As Open CPN is open-source, I would also make the code freely available - hence i am searching for someone who is willing to take such an assignment - for helping the community, and also for some financial support.
If interested, please send me a message.
Best regards,
Tibor
THe anchor watch in Open CPN could be enhanced with an important feature: it happens many times that sailors go to shore for shopping/eating out/etc. and leave their boat at anchor. If the boat starts to drag anchor during that time, no notification gets to the sailor. In such a situation, the sailor is often outside any wifi range -without a local simcard even 3g coverage is in question. The current anchor alarm in Open CPN does have an option to add a non-defined command - this command could be coded in a way that the anchor alarm would trigger a call or sms notification to a preset phone number.
I would hire someone who can code such a command. As Open CPN is open-source, I would also make the code freely available - hence i am searching for someone who is willing to take such an assignment - for helping the community, and also for some financial support.
If interested, please send me a message.
Best regards,
Tibor