Maiana connection

[Sailoog]

I also lighted up once Maiana with the power modeule attached but without being connected to PI. Don't know if this was a risky  action, but I did it when I unmounted it.

No risk on that.

[Abelardo]

I solved this but it was a slog. And once again, a reminder of the tenuous relationship between causation and correlation.

I was able to provision the Maiana with my boat info from the command line, though not from the pi connected to the MacArthur hat. I had to use a different machine and connect to the base with the UART adaptor. And so, I am receiving and sending.

Here us the relevant info
Provisioning

Configure the COM port for 38400 bps, 8 bit data, no parity, one stop bit. Attach the serial
terminal to this port and power up the system. You should see a continuous feed of NMEA0183
sentences.

To interact with the unit using commands, configure your serial terminal application for line input
with CRLF (‘\r\n’) termination. Then send the cli command (you may need to send it more than
once). The unit should reboot and respond with this output:

CLI mode. Send the 'reboot' command or cycle power to exit.

With the terminal really quiet now, it’s a lot easier to send the station command for provisioning.
This command has eight comma-separated arguments with no quotes or spaces in between. It
must be sent in one line like this:

station mmsi,name,callsign,type,len,beam,portoffset,bowoffset

Here is the reminder:

When I first connected to the base, I was using a 75 foot cat5 cable and couldn't send commands, only receive. At the suggestion of Peter Antypas, who is most awesome,  I switched to a shorter cable, and, Bob's your uncle, it worked.

Interestingly, the Openplotter Maiana app still doesn't see the device but it is working fully as expected.

For now, that's good enuf, knowing that Openplotter is still in beta.

Pax,
Mo

Which application did you use? And under which Operating system.
 I tried ¨PUTTY¨ on windows 11 and I can open serial connection and see all the incoming gps possition and all data, BUT I cannot send the cli command. I can type it and hit return , but maiana ignore it? Looks is not getting \LF\CR
Not sure if is not sending correctly the command?
I used putty in windows 11. Using the usb adapter to configure the boat information.

Thanks