2021-07-04, 10:30 AM
@wellenvogel
Awesome, I didn't quite understood the usage of overlays indeed. Thanks for the support too; i'm re-reading the docs and finding out new stuff, playing with overlays, etc
@PaddyB
Thanks for your input too! Definetly agree on planning bneforehand, that part I already do, and will certainly improve after this chat with you guys. For this august's 3-week trip, I'll take my laptop with OpenCPN for the planning. Now that I found out about the export functions and the import ones in AvNav, should be little to no problem to get everything working together.
While on cockpit, I already built a support for the tablet under the sprayhood, but I think i'd rather use AvNav/KIP display during the navigation. Those are apps designed to use with your fingers, unlike OpenCPN.
InfluxDB+Grafana are definetly a powerful combo; I also have full battery monitoring, temperature+pressure, and basically any other input that I can care about it's evolution.
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So far it's quite clear to me that what I need to do is to sail more, try different configurations, and see what works best for me in different situations. But it's very interesting to read your inputs.
Before august though, I will work in a software to synchronize information between OpenCPN and AvNav. Should be reasonable easy to listen for changes in OpenCPN's navobj.xml and AvNav's route/track/overalay folders and automatically convert the format and send to a specific folder/computer in the network.
Awesome, I didn't quite understood the usage of overlays indeed. Thanks for the support too; i'm re-reading the docs and finding out new stuff, playing with overlays, etc
@PaddyB
Thanks for your input too! Definetly agree on planning bneforehand, that part I already do, and will certainly improve after this chat with you guys. For this august's 3-week trip, I'll take my laptop with OpenCPN for the planning. Now that I found out about the export functions and the import ones in AvNav, should be little to no problem to get everything working together.
While on cockpit, I already built a support for the tablet under the sprayhood, but I think i'd rather use AvNav/KIP display during the navigation. Those are apps designed to use with your fingers, unlike OpenCPN.
InfluxDB+Grafana are definetly a powerful combo; I also have full battery monitoring, temperature+pressure, and basically any other input that I can care about it's evolution.
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So far it's quite clear to me that what I need to do is to sail more, try different configurations, and see what works best for me in different situations. But it's very interesting to read your inputs.
Before august though, I will work in a software to synchronize information between OpenCPN and AvNav. Should be reasonable easy to listen for changes in OpenCPN's navobj.xml and AvNav's route/track/overalay folders and automatically convert the format and send to a specific folder/computer in the network.