@mxtommy KIP instrument display webapp for Signalk

[maxchertudi]

Hi there! I am a very happy user of KIP for a year now and tine has come to start creating new pages woth sensor to be displayed. I was not able to find how to insert a new page between two already created. Is it possible or the only way is to add at the end? how to reorder them then?
Thanks in advance
Max

[Sparhawk76]

Think I found a bug in how Kip displays charge data. 

I have a node-red setup to monitor my batteries, and one key metric I monitor is the total amp hours reported by all 6 of my lithium batteries. Node red sums these all up, and sends them to the SignalK delta self.solar.battery.capacity  with the meta set to {"units": "Ah"}.   When I try to monitor this metric in Kip, the radial dial shows C (coulomb) in the center, and the correct number of Amp Hours, but if I change the Display format in the radial dial settings to show Ampere Hours instead, the dial is at 0, but it shows Ah in the center (if I change decimal places from 0 to 2 in the settings it shows 0.32, when it should be showing 1140Ah (1248Ah total capacity in my bank) .

[rszemeti]

Think I found a bug in how Kip displays charge data. 

I have a node-red setup to monitor my batteries, and one key metric I monitor is the total amp hours reported by all 6 of my lithium batteries. Node red sums these all up, and sends them to the SignalK delta self.solar.battery.capacity  with the meta set to {"units": "Ah"}.   When I try to monitor this metric in Kip, the radial dial shows C (coulomb) in the center, and the correct number of Amp Hours, but if I change the Display format in the radial dial settings to show Ampere Hours instead, the dial is at 0, but it shows Ah in the center (if I change decimal places from 0 to 2 in the settings it shows 0.32, when it should be showing 1140Ah (1248Ah total capacity in my bank) .

This is not a bug.

SignalK does not work like that, SignalK always uses SI units.  The SI unit of charge is the coulomb.

The correct way  is to send the value to in coulombs ( C ), then translate in KIP to Ah.   Couloumbs is the SI unit of charge,  Ah is  one of may human readable display formats. SK will always have SI units and then you tranlate to whatever human readable form you want in KIP.

[PieterL]

I am trying to use KIP over a local network, via Rpi5 Hotspot.
Shortly after 'Connect' and 'Set Credentials' you see in the 'Connection Status' the 'Delta/Sec' goes to zero. 
This happens when I log in with a GSM or a Tablet but not with a laptop??
If I use the same setup but over my home network instead of the Hotspot on the Rpi it works fine.
Anyone have an idea where to look?

[st599]

I sail often on club boats and we have created a great dashboard system using KIP on the Raspberry Pi.

How do I set up KIP so that people accessing via their mobile get the same dashboard system. Setting it up on every skippers phone is impractical.

[aitonos]

I sail often on club boats and we have created a great dashboard system using KIP on the Raspberry Pi.

How do I set up KIP so that people accessing via their mobile get the same dashboard system.  Setting it up on every skippers phone is impractical.

Hi, It's very easy:

in settings of KIP,  in the first tab ( Signal K tab) , you must activate the "SignalK authetication" and then select "set credentials" and there introduce your Signal K user and password.

Once you do that in any device connecting to SignalK server of the Rapberry, you'll have the same dashboard for all of them.

The only thing to be careful is that any change done in any device in the layout design will affect all other devices.

[Techstyle]

I sail often on club boats and we have created a great dashboard system using KIP on the Raspberry Pi.

How do I set up KIP so that people accessing via their mobile get the same dashboard system.  Setting it up on every skippers phone is impractical.

Hi, It's very easy:

in settings of KIP,  in the first tab ( Signal K tab) , you must activate the "SignalK authetication" and then select "set credentials" and there introduce your Signal K user and password.

Once you do that in any device connecting to SignalK server of the Rapberry, you'll have the same dashboard for all of them.

The only thing to be careful is that any change done in any device in the layout design will affect all other devices.

make sure you go to the Storage tab in settings and save your layout to a backup - such as "helm_backup", that way if somebody does change it, you can just copy it back!

[aitonos]

I sail often on club boats and we have created a great dashboard system using KIP on the Raspberry Pi.

How do I set up KIP so that people accessing via their mobile get the same dashboard system.  Setting it up on every skippers phone is impractical.

Hi, It's very easy:

in settings of KIP,  in the first tab ( Signal K tab) , you must activate the "SignalK authetication" and then select "set credentials" and there introduce your Signal K user and password.

Once you do that in any device connecting to SignalK server of the Rapberry, you'll have the same dashboard for all of them.

The only thing to be careful is that any change done in any device in the layout design will affect all other devices.

make sure you go to the Storage tab in settings and save your layout to a backup - such as "helm_backup", that way if somebody does change it, you can just copy it back!

Good advice! I didn't know how to do it so, when I wanted to do so,  I went to the settings file ( and copied original file and changed the extention to keep it as the old version). Obvioulsy, yours method is the right thing!

[PaddyB]

Anyone on the new beta? It's fantastic
Get the install link over on signalk discord if you ask.

[aitonos]

Anyone on the new beta? It's fantastic
Get the install link over on signalk discord if you ask.

I asked yesterday for the link to beta try, but didn't get it yet. I'm so happy to know!