OpenMarine

I had raised the question for a stand alone vdr in the ocpn cruisers forum and got the advise to use ncat.

What I aim for is a simple way to record the nmea sentences so that I can later load the file into ocpn on any platform and playback the vdr file.

I used the command 

ncat localhost -u -l 10109 -o --append-output mylogdata.txt 
but always got 
Ncat: Got more than one port specification: 10109 mylogdata.txt. QUITTING.

I then used 
pi@MyOP:~ $ ncat localhost -u -l 10109 -o mylogdata.txt

but unfortunatly the mylogdata.txt file remains empty.

Has anyone a solution to my confusion? Thanks.

PS: Ultimately I hope to have one toggle icon (with kb short cut) in the task bar to start/stop recording.
Has anyone done this already?

can someone please test above on op 0.9.0 and report if it works.
I get always port in use error.

Thanks for help.

(2017-03-23, 07:55 AM)SkipperEarly Wrote: [ -> ]can someone please test above on op 0.9.0 and report if it works.
I get always port in use error.

Thanks for help.

Haven't tried ncat, and being still under 0.8, I am using kplex to record the nmea-sentences.
Add in .kplex.conf :

[file]
name=log
filename=/home/pi/kplexlogs/nmea.log
direction=out
append=yes
eol=n

works like a charme.
fair winds
Christian

Thanks Christian, that's a nice solution.
Will try it for a while and see how large the files gets. Thanks for the info.

What would be your suggestion for a simple way to switch on/off file recording? Stop kplex edit .kplex.conf restart kplex ? - I am sure there could be a simpler way.

fair winds _/)

(2017-03-27, 09:01 AM)SkipperEarly Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks Christian, that's a nice solution.
Will try it for a while and see how large the files gets. Thanks for the info.

What would be your suggestion for a simple way to switch on/off file recording? Stop kplex edit .kplex.conf restart kplex ? - I am sure there could be a simpler way.

fair winds _/)

You could start kplex wit the the option -f and specify two configuration files, one with logging enabled and the other without. So all it takes is to kill kplex and restart it with the other config file. But I don't know if this can be done with the openplotter interface - I am not very strong in python ...

glad to help
Christian