Newbie! Can two chartplotter be setup on one pi4?

[Jphughes]

Hi John,

I'm running openplotter, with two screens. One touchscreen outside and another (normal screen) with keyboard and mouse inside in the navigation center. You run one instance of opencpn on the PI4 and use both HDMI0 and HDMI1 port. The only thing which makes live easy is use the same resolution on both screens. 
My outside screen is VGA, inside is Full HDMI, so when we are out I switch to the VGA resolution 1024x768. When in the harbour working on inside screen i'm runnung on 1920x1080. 

hope this helps

G

gniersma;

Thanks for reply! If I understand you correctly, I would only have one PI4 and one instance of Opencpn on it but have it braodcast to the two (2) monitors...correct? 

So if you set a course at your nav station and then while underway wanted to alter course somewhat, could you do that from outside monitor or would you need to return to nav station to adjust?

Right now I can use both Garmin MFD's, whichever is closer to me at the time.

Thanks again,

John