2024-05-04, 01:47 PM
Hello,
I am currently converting my boat to electric propulsion. The controls are based on NMEA2000 and I have bought a MacArthur Hat to display some of that data via SignalK and KIP. I use a combination of MG Systems batteries and a Victron charger. Pretty cool setup whereby the MG's BMS controls the Victron charger.
I'd like to feed the Victron data into SignalK (running on the Raspberry Pi). My plan is to connect to the GX-device over tcp using MQTT.
My question is about the physical link. Ideally, I'd like to use a cross-over UTP cable between the Cerbo and Rapsberry. Has anyone done this by assigning fixed IP addresses and subnets on both sides?
Other considerations:
- A switch / access point would be another power consumer / point of failure,
- I am no fan of the combined WLAN / Access Point option over a single network device, and prefer cables anyway.
- I could host SignalK on the Cerbo and use the VE bus to NMEA2000 cable to get the data from the motor, but I am intending to thinker and experiment with the MacArthur Hat and prefer to keep the Cerbo untouched.
Thank you.
I am currently converting my boat to electric propulsion. The controls are based on NMEA2000 and I have bought a MacArthur Hat to display some of that data via SignalK and KIP. I use a combination of MG Systems batteries and a Victron charger. Pretty cool setup whereby the MG's BMS controls the Victron charger.
I'd like to feed the Victron data into SignalK (running on the Raspberry Pi). My plan is to connect to the GX-device over tcp using MQTT.
My question is about the physical link. Ideally, I'd like to use a cross-over UTP cable between the Cerbo and Rapsberry. Has anyone done this by assigning fixed IP addresses and subnets on both sides?
Other considerations:
- A switch / access point would be another power consumer / point of failure,
- I am no fan of the combined WLAN / Access Point option over a single network device, and prefer cables anyway.
- I could host SignalK on the Cerbo and use the VE bus to NMEA2000 cable to get the data from the motor, but I am intending to thinker and experiment with the MacArthur Hat and prefer to keep the Cerbo untouched.
Thank you.
