2021-12-06, 03:07 PM
Hello,
I have OpenPlotter installed on a Raspberry 4 and also already connected a few sensors (GPS,temperature, air pressure). Now I would like to integrate a depth sounder. To this topic I ask myself these questions:
1. how does it work with the echosounder with OpenPlotter in principle? Do I import the data for the depth indication in OpenPlotter directly from a transducer? Or do I need a terminal device in addition to the transducer, which interprets the depth data and from which OpenPlotter then fetches the data via NMEA?
2) Which specific echosounders with in-hull transducers can be integrated into OpenPlotter reasonably easily? (By "easy" I mean that you can do it even as an interested layman who is not a programmer).
Who can help me, an OpenPlotter beginner, with these questions and explain to me how this works and possibly also give me tips on which devices I need?
Many thanks in advance,
Rüdiger
I have OpenPlotter installed on a Raspberry 4 and also already connected a few sensors (GPS,temperature, air pressure). Now I would like to integrate a depth sounder. To this topic I ask myself these questions:
1. how does it work with the echosounder with OpenPlotter in principle? Do I import the data for the depth indication in OpenPlotter directly from a transducer? Or do I need a terminal device in addition to the transducer, which interprets the depth data and from which OpenPlotter then fetches the data via NMEA?
2) Which specific echosounders with in-hull transducers can be integrated into OpenPlotter reasonably easily? (By "easy" I mean that you can do it even as an interested layman who is not a programmer).
Who can help me, an OpenPlotter beginner, with these questions and explain to me how this works and possibly also give me tips on which devices I need?
Many thanks in advance,
Rüdiger