Bareboat Necessities OS - Raspberry Pi OS-based Marine Linux for boats

[mgrouch]

Bareboat Necessities OS - Raspberry Pi OS-based Marine Linux built for boats.

BBN OS is completely free and opensource. Free downloadable SD card image.

Main features:

• GPS, compass (via IMU), AIS support
  
• NMEA networks integration, multiplexing, SignalK and plugins, dashboards
  
• Chartplotting (OpenCPN and plugins, AvNav), Navigation, Waypoints
  
• Touchscreen support (zoom gestures, right-click emulation), on-screen touch keyboard
  
• Weather forecasts (GRIBs, etc), weather routing, climatology packages, planning
  
• Autopilot (PyPilot needs additional free motor controller)
  
• IoT (NodeRed, MQTT), Sensors (i2c, etc)
  
• Homeassistant
  
• Power Monitoring
  
• Data collection/ Analytics via Grafana and InfluxDB
  
• Marine Radio protocols decoders (WeatherFax, NavTex, Inmarsat STD-C, Satellite Weather, AIS, more)
  
• SDR (Software Defined Radio) and HAM packages, WinLink
  
• Audio / Video players (jellyfin, raspotify, mopidy, bluetooth, etc)
  
• Cameras support via MotionEye and Homeassitant
  
• Social Networking Messaging, etc
  
• Internet Browser, email software
  
• Remote Desktop access (via VNC)
  
• Built in firewall
  
• Wi-Fi Access Point
  
• Android integration via scrcpy
  
• Drone Control Station
  
• Extensive Documentation
  

More in Getting Started Guide: https://bareboat-necessities.github.io/m...at-os.html

This OS had been in development for over 2 years. Latest stable release (#21) available via GitHub link at:

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/lysmarine_gen/releases/tag/v2022-07-13

Project Home Page:

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/lysmarine_gen/



Fair Winds!

[mgrouch]

BBN Marine OS is getting more popular and its home on cloudsmith.com might run out of its monthly quotas by the end of the month.
If you experience troubles downloading from Cloudsmith due to quotas you can now use this link:

https://archive.org/download/bbn-marine-os_2022-07-13

(Download speeds from the link above will be slower)

[mgrouch]

Beta version of BBN OS based on arm64 Bullseye is available for testing

Download from here:

https://cloudsmith.io/~bbn-projects/repo...s-bullseye

Report your issues at:

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/...gen/issues

Thanks

[mgrouch]

Beta version of BBN OS based on arm64 Bullseye is available for testing

Download from here:

https://cloudsmith.io/~bbn-projects/repo...s-bullseye

Report your issues at:

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/...gen/issues

Thanks

A release (Preview Release) of BBN Marine OS for Raspberry Pi, now fully 64-bit and based on Bullseye
is available for downloads at 

https://cloudsmith.io/~bbn-projects/repo...n-bullseye

While it needs more testing, it's performance looks much better than the previous stable Buster-based version.

There are also some new features:

- Victron Web UI interface
- HF Propagation Web UI
- Clock (With timer and alarm)
- TODO list application

There is a number of important issues addressed:

- Boot speed when not connected to a network
- Better touchscreen detection
- Better auto-detection of pypilot hardware
- OpenGL performance is much better in a number of applications (Chromium, Stellarium, and more)

More add-ons.

Many OpenCPN plugins and SignalK plugins are included.

HomeAssistant and JellyFin are on the image. They just need activation via add-ons.


BBN OS is completely free and opensource. Free downloadable SD card image. Extensive documentation is available.

Give this image a try, and report bugs to help making it a stable version soon.

Thanks

[mgrouch]

First Bullseye-based stable release of free and open source BBN Marine OS for Raspberry Pi is available for downloads.

This release is arm64 with noticeable improvements in performance.

There is number of new features (compared to previous Buster-based releases)

Better PyPilot support
Better Victron support
Few additional apps

Many included plugins for SignalK and OpenCPN

Fair Winds!

Download link:

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/...2022-09-09

[mgrouch]

Eleventh Bullseye-based stable release of free and open source BBN Marine OS for Raspberry Pi is available for downloads.

No known major issues. Stable release.

Download Link:
https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/...2022-10-24

Getting Started Guide and Documentation:
https://bareboat-necessities.github.io/m...at-os.html

For those who would like to help with translations
CrowdIn translation project page:
https://crowdin.com/project/bareboat-necessities-bbn-os

Since Raspberry Pi is hard to find which other boards are you using? I'm considering creating Armbian based
version too.

The list of boards I consider is here: https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/...issues/255

It needs to be narrowed down to few.

Fair Winds!

[mgrouch]

First Bullseye-based stable release of free and open source BBN Marine OS for Raspberry Pi is available for downloads.

This release is arm64 with noticeable improvements in performance.

There is number of new features (compared to previous Buster-based releases)

Better PyPilot support
Better Victron support
Few additional apps

Many included plugins for SignalK and OpenCPN

Fair Winds!

Download link:

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/...2022-09-09

A new release 2022-12-20 of free and open source BBN Marine OS for raspberry pi is available for downloads.

- Stability fixes for PyPilot and Signalk
- Some fixes for tides in OpenCPN
- Regular OS updates
- Documentation improvements

Download from:
https://cloudsmith.io/~bbn-projects/repo...n-bullseye
Getting Started Guide: https://bareboat-necessities.github.io/m...at-os.html

Fair Winds!

[mgrouch]

A Bareboat Necessities (BBN) OS new release (2023-06-13)
now includes OpenCPN 5.8.2

Bareboat Necessities (BBN) OS is a free and open source 

Linux Raspberry Pi system for sailing and living aboard.

Also much better performance of OpenCPN chartplotter, 

and fixes for SDI connected displays.

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/lysmarine_gen

Fair Winds!

[mgrouch]

Bareboat Necessities OS release 2023-07-21 fixes
number of USB resets and drop offs.

Bareboat Necessities (BBN) Marine OS is completely
free and open source OS for raspberry PI and not affiliated with any commercial
organizations.

Current release is based on Raspberry Pi OS (Debian Bullseye variant arm64)

Download link
https://cloudsmith.io/~bbn-projects/repo...=lysmarine

It should be really stable and performant release.
If you do not feel it, speak up and report any issues at GitHub

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/...gen/issues

Feel free to explore other BBN projects 

As esp32 MFD marine display 

https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/...tack-tough

Or DIY NMEA 2000 sensors or gateways
https://github.com/bareboat-necessities/...200-m5atom

[mgrouch]

BBN Marine OS by Bareboat Necessities project takes 3rd place in
RealVNC Raspberry Pi 2023 Competition:

RealVNC Raspberry Pi  Prizes  2023