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[SOLVED] Need Help! Stuck routing wind data - skyeyedoc - 2022-03-24 My boat network has gotten complicated: RPi3B running updated OpenPlotter. TinyPilot with Minimal Weather Sensors, fully updated, running near the helm. We've just added a Vesper Cortex vhf/ais transponder/hub. Here's my difficulty: The handset of the Vesper will display relative wind angle/speed if streamed in via NMEA0183 into the Vesper Cortex hub. I'd like to make that happen. However, since updating the TinyPilot, I don't understand the routing of the minimal weather sensors data into openplotter. On devices running opencpn which are wifi connected to the Openplotter system, I can see relative wind displayed on their dashboards using the updated plugins for Dashboard and Pypilot (pypilot configured to connect to the TinyPilot, and with NMEA Forward checked). I can see APMWV sentences flagged as 'virtual' in the NMEA Debug stream in Opencpn. If I look at the SignalK web interface, I see OPpypilot as enabled in the data connections, and the weather sensor data listed in the data browser, and updating. I've added an FTDI rs422/rs485 serial dongle attached to /dev/ttyUSB0. Through this, I expect to be able to pass NMEA0183 sentences into the Vesper Cortex hub. I don't know exactly how to monitor the ftdi serial device: I've tried cat, socat, and screen utilities without success. I see one of the device tally lights blinking with traffic, but I think those are sentences coming from the Vesper Cortex hub. I'm pretty sure the weather sensor sentences are not yet routed to the serial device. And this is where I am stuck. I need guidance on how to set things up to route the APMWV sentences from tinypilot through openplotter to the ftdi serial dongle, and help to monitor the traffic on that dongle. If I can succeed with those issues, I'm pretty sure I can get the Vesper displaying the wind data on its handset. Who can step up, and share what they know? Thank you to anyone for their suggestions. If we can get this sorted out, I promise to write it up in a "how-to" to pay it forward. RE: Need Help! Stuck routing wind data - e-sailing - 2022-03-24 Your wind data is in signalk. You want to export it in nmea0183 to your rs422. You need the signalk plugin signalk to nmea0183. (Some explanation https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-to-nmea0183/blob/master/README.md). You can find another description here https://openplotter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/serial/examples.html (but the sentences are comming in nmea0183 format from opencpn) There is another plugin for signalk, to filter the data: "Forward and filter NMEA0183 input to NMEA0183 out" The slow NMEA0183 interfaces can't transfer many sentences. Be sure to send only needed data! Martin RE: Need Help! Stuck routing wind data - skyeyedoc - 2022-03-26 (2022-03-24, 11:03 PM)e-sailing Wrote: Your wind data is in signalk. You want to export it in nmea0183 to your rs422. You need the signalk plugin signalk to nmea0183. (Some explanation https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-to-nmea0183/blob/master/README.md). RE: [SOLVED] Need Help! Stuck routing wind data - La Zorra - 2022-04-03 Could someone please tell me where the settings.json file is located? That is referred to here: https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-to-nmea0183/blob/master/README.md If you want to output the conversion result into a serial connection you need to configure the serial connection in the server's Admin interface and add an extra line to the settings.json, specifying that the serial connection should output the plugin's output... Thank you skyeyedoc for your detailed repsonse, it helps! RE: [SOLVED] Need Help! Stuck routing wind data - e-sailing - 2022-04-04 (2022-04-03, 09:59 PM)La Zorra Wrote: Could someone please tell me where the settings.json file is located? That is referred to here: https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-to-nmea0183/blob/master/README.md/home/pi/.signalk |