Newbie! Can two chartplotter be setup on one pi4?

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I'm doing it with a touch screen at the inside nav station and a tablet running OpenCPN, and connected to OpenPlotter via network, outside. i have been struggling with some NMEA filtering issues, but that shouldn't effect you. Since the tablet outside is another instance of OpenCPN, you'll have to send routes and tracks back and forth to OpenPlotter, but I don't think that's a huge problem.

The other way to do it is to use a VNC client on a tablet at one of the stations. That gives you direct control of the main OpenPlotter/OpenCPN screen. You will lose a little bit of ... call it "intuitiveness", because the VNC client is trying to emulate your other screen.

abarrow;

Thanks for reply. SO as far as you know there isn't a "seamless" way to set a course say from the pilot house and get underway, then later be on flybridge and decide to alter the same course or the cancel that course and start a new one?

Reason I am looking for this type of setup is due to autopilot. I don't want to have to keep running up and down stairs to modify, change, begin new course and engage autopilot all the time.

Thanks again,

John

If you use VNC you're effectively screen-sharing the Pi to your tablet, not running a second instance on the tablet.

As long as you don't intend to have one person at the nav station and one at the bridge station both trying to drive it at the same time it should work.