2019-08-09, 08:08 PM
(2019-08-09, 07:31 PM)seandepagnier Wrote: Why exactly do you need to change 20 degree every 9 minutes?
You could make a route in opencpn to follow. Or if you really care about time and not actual position, you could write a script that connects to pypilot and performs this.
actually its 20 degrees every minute for 9 minutes... gives me 180 deg turn (U turn)
Why? - because unlike most of the people here.. I am using pypilot on a fishing boat, we slowly troll with multiple lines out 50 to 100' behind us. So when I need to make a turn I have to change coarse slowly over time, any more then 20degs and lines get crossed. After a minute I can adjust course again as the lines have aligned with the boat again.
I could make a route using opencpn but that would be quite tedious each time I want to change direction and frankly opencpn on OP is hit or miss as far as reliability is concerned. Adding pypilot into that mix is a recipe for frustration and I certainly don't want that while I'm fishing... all I want is to turn around plotting a course seems a bit overkill
If I knew how to write a script I would do that exact thing, I would add buttons to the pypilot web app with 4 options, 1 Uturn to port, 1 90deg turn to port and the same for starboard. I would have a config file that would allow me to adjust the time between heading adjustments and how many degrees to adjust so that each user could make it work according to their needs... but I don't "yet" know how, once it gets cold here and I can no longer go out fishing I might find the time to learn...
I've seen some requests for avoidance buttons.... this could be used to do that exact thing if it was made to be flexible enough.
what do you think?