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Optimum OCPN/OP connections ? - affinite - 2022-06-28 Hi all Can someone advise what is the best/optimum connections (in an OpenPlotter/SignalK configuration) Ive been having some performance/crashing issues lately and I'm concerned that my configuration has suffered from too much tinkering under the hood. FWIW here are my current settings: OpenCPN Ver 5.6.2 Connections Network, Output, protocol=UDP, Address=localhost, port 10119, priority=1 Network, Intput, protocol=Signal K, Address=localhost, port=3000, priority=1 SignalK ver 1.43 Connections gps - NMEA0183, serial, 4800, o/p event "" ,i/p event "gps" ais - NMEA0183, serial,38400, o/p event "" ,i/p event "ais" seatalk - NMEA0183,4800, o/p event "" ,i/p event "seatalk" openCPNOut - NMEA0183, UDP, port 10119,i/p event "autopilot" Active SK Plugins Forward and Filter NMEA Node Red Set System Time Derived Data for True Wind OpenPlotter Ver 2 on RPi Model 3b (16GB) Thanks Steve RE: Optimum OCPN/OP connections ? - PaddyB - 2022-06-28 (2022-06-28, 03:02 PM)affinite Wrote: Hi all .... Before changing anything might be worth trying a 32Gb SD card, I had a Pi Zero 2 occasionally crashing with a 16GB card, 32GB & it's been very well behaved since. RE: Optimum OCPN/OP connections ? - affinite - 2022-06-28 (2022-06-28, 03:41 PM)PaddyB Wrote:(2022-06-28, 03:02 PM)affinite Wrote: Hi all .... Am I right in thinking that means a complete rebuild ? if I take a 16GB image and write it to a 32 card will the partition size be increased to 32GB ? RE: Optimum OCPN/OP connections ? - PaddyB - 2022-06-28 (2022-06-28, 03:47 PM)affinite Wrote:(2022-06-28, 03:41 PM)PaddyB Wrote:(2022-06-28, 03:02 PM)affinite Wrote: Hi all .... Give it a go, think I just used the RPI SD card copier & it auto resized to 32gb. RE: Optimum OCPN/OP connections ? - burgoynebc@netscape.net - 2022-06-30 I have gone thro hell and back again trying to get Ocpn/o plotter and pypilot to come together...literally lost weeks trying everything I could find on you tube video's the docs section etc. They all basically say different ways. and none sort of brings it all together. Also the programs have been updated and the documentation and on- line stuff is frequently no longer valid.....very very fraustrating. The end result for me using a gps usb puck antena was actually the simplest howevr to get there was horrible. For another type antenna you may have to do something different but the jist should be the same. Basically, there are a whole bunch of protocols and setups that can get data into the end user, however what I wanted is to get the verification that good data gets into ocpn and into pypilot. This verification is the yellow bars that show the connections made in signal K and match your device name etc, and importantly that the bebugger in ocpn shows a continuous nmea stream. In some setups this doesl not show at all ( setup via signal k for instance) and the messages column is misleading if you dont look carefully to see that the time stamp is actually posting. And finally the big ticket is that the little boat in ocpn goes red and the top rightbox shows Gps strength bars. . The following is the only way I found: Serial 2.2.3 invoke devices - shows usb port give alias and device = ttyusb0 . Device should be found automatically and shows as manu name etc. check nmea 0183 Apply..... line goes green to confirm Click line and add to GPSD baud = auto Valiidate: pull plug and line goes red indicating it is disconnected - replug = green Next = OpenCpn 5.6.2: options - go to connections box : "add connection" device should show with your alias automatically - if not go back and check everything previous network input GPSD address ...should default to 0.0.0.0 port 2947 priority 1 ...these should load by default so leave everything as is add user comment - this is an ID for the connection Apply Ocpn should now completes the process via signal k automatically Overview: no signal k screwabout needed - just serial and ocpn Use GPSD option. This is a protocol/system that is used in most cell phones etc. End Result: red boat gps bars debugger shows 0183 stream yellow bars in signal k RE: Optimum OCPN/OP connections ? - PaddyB - 2022-07-01 (2022-06-30, 11:15 PM)burgoynebc@netscape.net Wrote: I have gone thro hell and back again trying to get Ocpn/o plotter and pypilot to come together...literally lost weeks trying everything I could find on you tube video's the docs section etc. T Something sounds very odd there - every install I've done it all just works pretty much out of the box, just add a 9dof compass for pypilot & a working gps input to signalk. If gps is working it will show nav data in the signalk data browser. No need for gpsd. Opencpn already has a nmea0183 connection set up on port 10110. I'll try again with a new Pi & double check but it really should be close to plug & play. RE: Optimum OCPN/OP connections ? - affinite - 2022-07-01 I think the frustrating thing for me is that, despite having a very simple configuration, there is apparently no published "Standard" set of connections that I can revert to in order to clean up my config. Also, there is no easy way to migrate OP/OCPN/SK settings to a fresh installation so I have to continue to tinker with the existing setup. RE: Optimum OCPN/OP connections ? - PaddyB - 2022-07-01 (2022-07-01, 09:02 AM)affinite Wrote: I think the frustrating thing for me is that, despite having a very simple configuration, there is apparently no published "Standard" set of connections that I can revert to in order to clean up my config. signalk has a backup/restore function, which is the worst of the setup. I've found it better not to include the plugins in the backup, let signalk install them when it runs after a restore. Node red same, backup & restore, doesn't take long. There isn't really any "standard" which would work in the real world, every boat is different. Opencpn is set up already to read data from signalk when openplotter gets installed. RE: Optimum OCPN/OP connections ? - Techstyle - 2022-07-01 (2022-06-28, 03:02 PM)affinite Wrote: Hi all one thing I notice about you setup is that I normally filter the output from OCPN to only send the sentences added by OCPN, otherwise you can get into loops - for me that would be RMB, APB, XTE (Transmit these sentences) RE: Optimum OCPN/OP connections ? - affinite - 2022-07-01 (2022-07-01, 03:06 PM)Techstyle Wrote:(2022-06-28, 03:02 PM)affinite Wrote: Hi all Yes, thanks I should have said that I do that as well. |