OpenMarine

Hi everyone. I bought the wind sensor with display from the pypilot store and a Davis anemometer. It works fine just on the display, but when I add it to OpenCPN it seems to crash and reboot.

Here's a video showing what I mean: https://youtu.be/sGNY9OGX1i8

As you can see it runs perfectly fine on a PC until I try configure it to open CPN where it seems to be in a reboot loop. Here's the debug data I pulled from OpenCPN:
<GREEN>21:13:20 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:20 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:20 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:20 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:20 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:20 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:21 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:21 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:21 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:21 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:21 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:21 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d<0x0D><0x0A>
/*Crashed here---> */
<GREEN>21:13:23 (Serial:COM3) $ARMDA,,,1.03477,B,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,*31Sensor type:davis<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:23 (Serial:COM3) Wind Off:0<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:23 (Serial:COM3) Baro Off:0<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:23 (Serial:COM3) Temp Off:0<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:23 (Serial:COM3) Cal valid  118  901<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:23 (Serial:COM3) bmX280 setup<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:23 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,,R,0.00,N,A*30<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:23 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,312.24,R,0.00,N,A*28<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:23 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,270.54,R,0.00,N,A*2a<0x0D><0x0A>
<GREEN>21:13:23 (Serial:COM3) $ARMWV,263.90,R,0.00,N,A*20<0x0D><0x0A>

Then I tried reading that serial port in putty and it ran perfectly, no reboots or any other issues. Here's some data from putty:
▒▒/j*▒▒̙H=▒Sensor type:davis
Wind Off:0
Baro Off:0
Temp Off:0
Cal valid  118  901
bmX280 setup
$ARMWV,,R,0.00,N,A*30
$ARMWV,312.24,R,0.00,N,A*28
$ARMWV,270.54,R,0.00,N,A*2a
$ARMWV,263.90,R,0.00,N,A*20
$ARMWV,262.50,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.20,R,0.00,N,A*2a
$ARMWV,262.15,R,0.00,N,A*2c
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMDA,,,1.03473,B,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,*35
$ARMTA,22.09,C*2f
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d
$ARMWV,262.14,R,0.00,N,A*2d

Anyone have any idea what's going on? I have tried two USB cables, same behaviour on both.

Thanks

Edit: Also works fine in NavMonPc.

It is very strange and I wonder if it has to do with how opencpn reads from serial ports in windows?


Do you have any other system with opencpn to try?

(2023-02-15, 02:44 AM)seandepagnier Wrote: [ -> ]It is very strange and I wonder if it has to do with how opencpn  reads from serial ports in windows?


Do you have any other system with opencpn to try?

I don't unfortunately. I will eventually get a pi, but I was hoping the laptop would do the job. I'll keep digging into opencpn to see if I can work it out.

(2023-02-15, 09:36 PM)patrickza Wrote: [ -> ]

(2023-02-15, 02:44 AM)seandepagnier Wrote: [ -> ]It is very strange and I wonder if it has to do with how opencpn  reads from serial ports in windows?


Do you have any other system with opencpn to try?

I don't unfortunately. I will eventually get a pi, but I was hoping the laptop would do the job. I'll keep digging into opencpn to see if I can work it out.

So I decided to dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu and now it works perfectly!

Very strange, I wonder what the issue is with Windows. Anyway I'm glad I can run it on linux. Seems like a great solution for a cost effective wind vane

(2023-02-18, 12:54 AM)patrickza Wrote: [ -> ]So I decided to dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu and now it works perfectly!

Very strange, I wonder what the issue is with Windows. Anyway I'm glad I can run it on linux. Seems like a great solution for a cost effective wind vane

Signalk runs on windows as well, might shed some more light on what is going on with the serial input on  windows

https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server-windows

(2023-02-18, 12:54 AM)patrickza Wrote: [ -> ]So I decided to dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu and now it works perfectly!

Very strange, I wonder what the issue is with Windows. Anyway I'm glad I can run it on linux. Seems like a great solution for a cost effective wind vane