2017-09-07, 02:39 AM
I have an Rpi3 running OpenPlotter 0.10.0 alpha. I am running the wifi as an access point. I have given it an SSID and a Password. the Wlan0 is configured as 169.254.131.205/16. I have a Kbox (a Teensy based system) which collects all my NMEA 0183 data from my instruments and sends it out over a wifi network. If I don't use the Rpi as an AP and connect to the Kbox wifi, I get data streaming in for OpenCPN. But I don't want the system configured that way, I want the Rpi to be the access point. So I have started the Kbox so that it connects to the Rpi SSID. I get a connection and it says connected to 10.10.10.1 and it gives its IP as 10.10.10.169.
My question is how do I tell OpenPlotter that I want to receive NMEA 0183 data from its access point wifi? I have gone to the NMEA0183 tab and input for the Port/Address everything from localhost, to 10.10.10.1 to 169.254.131.205, etc and tried several ports 16 - 6, but I never see any data coming from the Kbox. I know it is sending it because the log file for the Kbox says it is and if I run ifconfig on the pi I can see received (and transmitted) packets in the wlan0 section (inet addr: 10.10.10.1). Also I can ping the kbox at its IP 10.10.10.169 from the Rpi and I get a response. But I cannot seem to set up OpenPlotter (or OpenCPN) to read (or even show) the data coming from the Kbox.
There must be something simple I am doing wrong. I did not find anything about setting something like an external wifi data provider in the documentation, so I am hoping someone here can help me out.
thanks,
Ron
My question is how do I tell OpenPlotter that I want to receive NMEA 0183 data from its access point wifi? I have gone to the NMEA0183 tab and input for the Port/Address everything from localhost, to 10.10.10.1 to 169.254.131.205, etc and tried several ports 16 - 6, but I never see any data coming from the Kbox. I know it is sending it because the log file for the Kbox says it is and if I run ifconfig on the pi I can see received (and transmitted) packets in the wlan0 section (inet addr: 10.10.10.1). Also I can ping the kbox at its IP 10.10.10.169 from the Rpi and I get a response. But I cannot seem to set up OpenPlotter (or OpenCPN) to read (or even show) the data coming from the Kbox.
There must be something simple I am doing wrong. I did not find anything about setting something like an external wifi data provider in the documentation, so I am hoping someone here can help me out.
thanks,
Ron