2021-09-23, 04:47 PM
Hello community
I'm completely new here and really exciting by this new "world" of raspberry possibilities on sailboats.
I'm actually have a complete simrad system on my old sailboat from 1981.
Simrad system from 2014, with 12inch plotter, sonar, radar3G, AIS, and Autopilot. But by safety i would like to have another system which could be reliable. Actually i'm using a laptop with opencpn etc ... but laptop fly everywhere in the cabin when the sea is hard, and batteries on laptop are old and lazy now.
Raspberry with openplotter looks great and "easy" to do.
I just want to know before ordering the material and read many times the docs and installation process, if it'will be possible to take out of the raspberry pi the gps informations (in nmea 2000 format) and connect it by wires to my vhf which require gps info for the "mayday" automatic button (the mayday button will send a preregistered distress message and add the gps location of the boat on the safety radio channel).
It looks to me possible, but without the stuff in my hands, i'd like to know if somebody could confirm that, and maybe did it already for the same reason ?
Thank by advance
Laurent
I'm completely new here and really exciting by this new "world" of raspberry possibilities on sailboats.
I'm actually have a complete simrad system on my old sailboat from 1981.
Simrad system from 2014, with 12inch plotter, sonar, radar3G, AIS, and Autopilot. But by safety i would like to have another system which could be reliable. Actually i'm using a laptop with opencpn etc ... but laptop fly everywhere in the cabin when the sea is hard, and batteries on laptop are old and lazy now.
Raspberry with openplotter looks great and "easy" to do.
I just want to know before ordering the material and read many times the docs and installation process, if it'will be possible to take out of the raspberry pi the gps informations (in nmea 2000 format) and connect it by wires to my vhf which require gps info for the "mayday" automatic button (the mayday button will send a preregistered distress message and add the gps location of the boat on the safety radio channel).
It looks to me possible, but without the stuff in my hands, i'd like to know if somebody could confirm that, and maybe did it already for the same reason ?
Thank by advance
Laurent