2017-06-29, 02:46 PM
Patrik
You have a similar setup to me ie Old Raymarine instruments using Seatalk for communications. Seatalk is a (Raymarine) proprietary protocol so there is no direct support for it in Openplotter. In order to get your Raymarine instruments talking to/from Openplotter you are going to need a Seatalk to NMEA 0183 converter. I believe that there are some third party converters (search this forum for links) but I managed to get a second hand Raymarine device They are difficult to find but I bought mine on eBay last year.
I can now take data from all of my Raymarine instruments into Openplotter and the Autopilot will receive the (converted) waypoint/routing NMEA sentences from Opencpn/Openplotter. You do have to work through issues of different devices trying to output the same sentence but that is what the Openplotter NMEA filters are for.
As I said the first thing you need is the NMEA/Seatalk converter.
Good luck
Steve
You have a similar setup to me ie Old Raymarine instruments using Seatalk for communications. Seatalk is a (Raymarine) proprietary protocol so there is no direct support for it in Openplotter. In order to get your Raymarine instruments talking to/from Openplotter you are going to need a Seatalk to NMEA 0183 converter. I believe that there are some third party converters (search this forum for links) but I managed to get a second hand Raymarine device They are difficult to find but I bought mine on eBay last year.
I can now take data from all of my Raymarine instruments into Openplotter and the Autopilot will receive the (converted) waypoint/routing NMEA sentences from Opencpn/Openplotter. You do have to work through issues of different devices trying to output the same sentence but that is what the Openplotter NMEA filters are for.
As I said the first thing you need is the NMEA/Seatalk converter.
Good luck
Steve