2020-07-05, 09:44 PM
(2020-07-05, 09:09 PM)Sailoog Wrote: what you are trying to do is designed to have a single device and get and send data from it. But you have 2 devices and you do not need to use SK, you have just to set a serial output connection in OpenCPN.
- Remove all you have done in SK and plugins.
- Use the openplotter-serial app to set alias for both devices.
- Create the SK connection for your AIS/GPS from the same openplotter-serial app. Do not create connection for your second device.
- Go to opencpn and be sure you have enabled the network connection TCP localhost 10110. You do not need more network connections.
- Create a serial output in opencpn using the alias of your second device.
many thanks for the reply. Yes we can bypass Signal K altogether and simply use serial connections in and out of OpenCPN and that of course works but we wanted to use the dashboards in Signal K and start to add more sensors and other data sources and use Signal K in the centre.
Why can we not send the OPENCPNOUT data stream to the APREPEAT serial connection in Signal K? Reading the documentation it almost exactly fits the use case depicted. The SK OPENCPNOUT connection definitely gets all the data we want. The OPENCPNOUT datastream is all NMEA0183.
Cheers
Spart