Openplotter serial output

[warrenden]

hi
another possible solution, without cables.
I also use as navigation software another software: Oziexplorer on Windows XP, it will only use COM ports for GPS and AIS signals. Now I also want use all openplotter services but the main navigation software remains Oziexplorer.
I solved using VSPE Virtual Serial Port Emulator (free software)
http://www.eterlogic.com/Products.VSPE.html
It allows you to send AIS and GPS input data from com ports to Oziexplorer and simultaneously via TCP to Openplotter, or the NMEA data from Openplotter via TCP can send them to Oziexplorer on the COM port. With it you can build in Windows any data exchange
Hello

Hi Renato,
I’m also a big fan of Oziexplorer and want to run it wirelessly on my PC off RPi OpenPlotter (which is also great). 
 
I’ve got RPi OpenPlotter working (including a boat AP) and my boat feeds it Navdata at 4800 and AIS (38400) and OpenCPN also works great.  I can see also all this data over wifi on my iPad running iNavX (which is really good for AIS collision avoidance from the cockpit).
 
Please would you explain in more detail how you set up the virtual COM ports to work between OpenPlotter and Ozi?  As far as I’ve always understood it, Ozi likes to receive position data and AIS data on different ports.  I’m familiar with the Ozi configuration process using real (serial) or virtual COM ports with USB cables.  I’ve never tried to use Ozi “over wifi” but I understand the VSPE generally.
 
I may have a misconception but I thought OpenPlotter multiplexed all the incoming NMEA streams and presented them at address 127.0.0.1 and port 10110 at 38400 baud; the highest speed. 
 
Can Ozi cope with “unscrambling” this combined data feed or do you set up OpenPlotter to forward the NMEA streams separately (and 2 VSPEs)?
 
Many thanks
Andrew
 
PS The RPi guys screwed up the UART with the Bluetooth facility in the Pi3.  I guess it’s well-known now but I wasted a ton of time trying to feed NMEA into the console terminal after I upgraded to a Pi3.  Worked (with kplex) on the B+.