2017-06-29, 03:34 PM
(2017-06-29, 02:46 PM)affinite Wrote: 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
Thank you for the tips! I'm very grateful for that. But, if I understand "abarrow" right, the plotter, C80, will convert seatalk signals into nmea0183. So, my plan is to try using that instead.
If I remember correct, it looks like this:
1. From the gps antenna there is 5 cables.
- 1 of the cable is seperate and connected to positive+ terminal (bat)
- 2 of the cables is connected to nmea0183 cable that goes directly to the plotter.
- the last 2 from the gps antenna is not used at all.
- 2 of the cables from the plotter (nmea cable) is not used at all.
I have an idea about how to connect everything but don't know how to explain it in english...
//Patrik