Connecting NMEA Wind data from NASA Clipper

[PaddyB]

Thanks for the hint Paddy - Ok, so i tried Putty this time, and got a much better result:

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Here i see wind data (with decimals) and, as it looks, with the correct checksums - consistently ! (Must be something wonky with Hyperterminal or my setup)

So, if this is what the NASA Tactical wind sends when i am using a computer to diagnose the issue... why would this not be acceptable to OpenPlotter? It is also not exactly what i see in the auto-setup process - there the last checksum figure is truncated etc. (see my earlier posts)

It is also strange that the auto setup hangs when it enters the auto name creation, just stops/hangs until i remove the RS232 connector by which time it continues to create names etc.

/M

Hi ,  just some more info which might help - I just sent one of your messages to Openplotter over UDP from node-red running in another machine - seems to work fine, openplotter recognizes it and converts to signalk - so whatever is happening your end it seems to be before KPLEX..