2020-02-19, 02:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 2020-02-19, 05:08 PM by beholder77.)
Just finished little project for pypilot control
i have RPI with openplotter on nav station and wifi tablet on helm.
But heavy rain and bad weather is not the time for trying to play with touchscreen display
For bad weather i decided to make waterproof controls for cabin top instruments panel under sprayhood.
As enclosure i have used old non working Autohelm depth instrument display with new 2004A LCD and arduino nano. Later i added RF Remote Control.
Going to paint new buttons labels... Those controls have only four buttons, so i combined short, long presses and with simultaneous pressing of two buttons for different kind of actions.
On cabin top i already have depth and wind instruments, so for new instrument i added gps speed display mode and time display mode (just for fun)
Can't wait for next season to test it!
Here is little video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-mZD6RBbHg
do not judge strictly, i am not any kind of electronics professional but I really fell in love with all those openplotter stuff
Just for anyone who seeking for same solution and i giving an idea to not get rid of old instruments
PS. just found this post: http://forum.openmarine.net/showthread.p...1#pid12301 with another solution that it is really beautiful, reliable and convenient . I am very like it
i have RPI with openplotter on nav station and wifi tablet on helm.
But heavy rain and bad weather is not the time for trying to play with touchscreen display
For bad weather i decided to make waterproof controls for cabin top instruments panel under sprayhood.
As enclosure i have used old non working Autohelm depth instrument display with new 2004A LCD and arduino nano. Later i added RF Remote Control.
Going to paint new buttons labels... Those controls have only four buttons, so i combined short, long presses and with simultaneous pressing of two buttons for different kind of actions.
On cabin top i already have depth and wind instruments, so for new instrument i added gps speed display mode and time display mode (just for fun)
Can't wait for next season to test it!
Here is little video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-mZD6RBbHg
do not judge strictly, i am not any kind of electronics professional but I really fell in love with all those openplotter stuff
Just for anyone who seeking for same solution and i giving an idea to not get rid of old instruments
PS. just found this post: http://forum.openmarine.net/showthread.p...1#pid12301 with another solution that it is really beautiful, reliable and convenient . I am very like it