2019-08-26, 04:22 PM
So... I am very new to Nema... frankly I had no idea it existed till I stumbled upon Sean's tinypilot website while searching for a way to steer my boat while fishing (trolling)...
Anyhow, I haven't quite got a full grasp on it yet to say the least so I need some help to understand the possibilities.
I have a mercury outboard with a handy device called vesselview mobile... gives me tons of info on my smart phone, but I wonder if it is possible to create a nema network and somehow push this data to my openplotter Rpi running opencpn using this adapter https://www.yachtd.com/products/engine_gateway.html
1. Can openplotter manage/distribute this data?
2. How would I connect the adapter to my openplotter RPi
3. are there Opencpn plugins that would take this data and display it as they have shown on the Raymarine multi screen? I use "dashboard" now but that is pretty clumsy and there is only so much room on the screen, I think it would need to have multiple screen views so you could customize what each one shows.
it would be nice to have one display that can show all the info like that Raymarine one does
Anyhow, I haven't quite got a full grasp on it yet to say the least so I need some help to understand the possibilities.
I have a mercury outboard with a handy device called vesselview mobile... gives me tons of info on my smart phone, but I wonder if it is possible to create a nema network and somehow push this data to my openplotter Rpi running opencpn using this adapter https://www.yachtd.com/products/engine_gateway.html
1. Can openplotter manage/distribute this data?
2. How would I connect the adapter to my openplotter RPi
3. are there Opencpn plugins that would take this data and display it as they have shown on the Raymarine multi screen? I use "dashboard" now but that is pretty clumsy and there is only so much room on the screen, I think it would need to have multiple screen views so you could customize what each one shows.
it would be nice to have one display that can show all the info like that Raymarine one does