Optimum OCPN/OP connections ?

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Hi all
Can someone advise what is the best/optimum connections (in an OpenPlotter/SignalK configuration)
Ive been having some performance/crashing issues lately and I'm concerned that my configuration has suffered from too much tinkering under the hood.
FWIW here are my current settings:

OpenCPN Ver 5.6.2
Connections 
Network, Output, protocol=UDP, Address=localhost, port 10119, priority=1
Network, Intput, protocol=Signal K, Address=localhost, port=3000, priority=1

SignalK ver 1.43
Connections
gps - NMEA0183, serial, 4800, o/p event "" ,i/p event "gps"
ais - NMEA0183, serial,38400, o/p event "" ,i/p event "ais"
seatalk - NMEA0183,4800, o/p event "" ,i/p event "seatalk"
openCPNOut - NMEA0183, UDP, port 10119,i/p event "autopilot"

Active SK Plugins 
Forward and Filter NMEA
Node Red
Set System Time
Derived Data for True Wind


OpenPlotter Ver 2 on RPi Model 3b (16GB)

Thanks
Steve

It looks like you are creating new events for each piece of data. Wouldn't you then need to forward and filter those into the nmea stream to get that info into OpenCPN? I may be way off here, but I recall that info needing to be in the correct place. You may want to try just changing the i/p event and dumping everything into nmeaOutput, then use OCPN TCP/IP connection on port 10110 and see if that works.

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Just looked and that is nmea0183Out to get the data into 10110 and send to OCPN.

Thanks - that really helped get me back on-track.
My setup is now quite simple and seems to be working OK but I have one more frustration.
How to I send the "nmea0183" data stream to a serial-attached VHFRadio ?
Is it just a case of putting "nmea0183" in the input event for the radio ? 
I tried it but I dont see the data when I look at the SK Log for that event, (next test is to connect a serial test device to see if there is actual data on the serial port (even if not on the SK log)

or do I need to route it using the "Forward and filter NMEA to NMEA" plugin ?