Mareas-IHM - A SignalK tides plugin and webapp

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Hi friends!

I’d like to share a Signal K plugin we’ve recently published: signalk-mareas-ihm

The plugin retrieves official tidal predictions from the Instituto Hidrográfico de la Marina (IHM) and publishes them to the standard environment.tide.* paths in Signal K.

Highlights:

• Authoritative IHM data source
  
• Online/offline operation with persistent cache
  
• Automatic station selection via GPS + optional manual override
  
• Smooth and stable tide height interpolation
  
• Built-in grounding / safety alarms
  
• Includes tactical navigation hints for Rías Baixas 
  
• Available in English and Spanish
  
• Fail-safe design (API/network issues won’t disrupt Signal K)
  

The plugin can be installed directly from the Signal K App Store. Also directly from the NPM package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/signalk-mareas-ihm

I also want to say a big thank you to the creators and maintainers of Signal K and OpenPlotter for building such a useful and user-friendly ecosystem. It’s honestly impressive.

As a fun note: even a complete beginner like me managed to design and publish this plugin in about a week, with the help of GPT and a lot of trial and error ?

Feedback and testing are very welcome. Lock the target and catch the BUG! You caugth the bug! (FRONT242  )

Thanks to the whole OpenMarine / Signal K community!

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Some screenshots (english/ spanish)