Introducing OpenPlotter hats!!!

[Luckbert]

Hello, everybody,

The mistake was my pi. The I2C interface and SPI interfaces are defective. Why this happened is not quite clear to me. Before, the pi worked normally with other modules.

Anyway, the new PI is ordered and then tested further.

Greetings Jürgen

[andy kopac]

I received the Moitesseir hat today. No question. A total game changer. It's a one-stop shop for almost everything you want in a cruising rpi hat. Incredible. The only thing I'm still waiting for is a WL2K client for rpi with pactor compatibility, hf propagation predicting, and catalog support for saildocs for weather fax and grib access.

[Smartell]

I looked through the documentation on the hat and i got confused by the ordering options described in the PDF. On page 2 they show a picture of a "Basic" version and that is even lacking solder pads for headers etc.

Does anybody know what we are getting when ordering the hat, what kind of options is included?

/M

[andy kopac]

I looked through the documentation on the hat and i got confused by the ordering options described in the PDF. On page 2 they show a picture of a "Basic" version and that is even  lacking solder pads for headers etc.

Does anybody know what we are getting when ordering the hat, what kind of options is included?

/M

I got the basic Hat.  You will not want want to stack any hats on top as this will interfer with the GPS antenna.  although they did rout a couple pins thru,  your best bet is one of the following

https://shop.4tronix.co.uk/products/gpio...spberry-pi
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3577
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3742

This is an amazing board.  I haven't been this excited since I got my Pactor modem years ago.  It is a HUGE game changer.  Mine does everything it is supposed to.  Their support is great too.

[Smartell]

I looked through the documentation on the hat and i got confused by the ordering options described in the PDF. On page 2 they show a picture of a "Basic" version and that is even  lacking solder pads for headers etc.

Does anybody know what we are getting when ordering the hat, what kind of options is included?

/M

I got the basic Hat.  You will not want want to stack any hats on top as this will interfer with the GPS antenna.  although they did rout a couple pins thru,  your best bet is one of the following

https://shop.4tronix.co.uk/products/gpio...spberry-pi
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3577
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3742

This is an amazing board.  I haven't been this excited since I got my Pactor modem years ago.  It is a HUGE game changer.  Mine does everything it is supposed to.  Their support is great too.

I am not looking to put anything on top of the hat. What i asked was: Did you get a board that looked like the picture on the left of the "Basic board" without any empty solder patches or pins above the Moitessier logo ? If you don't look at the picture, you can't answer my question.

[Rooco]

Hello Smartell,

the pictures are for reference only and are 3D renderings, so no solder pads are shown at all.
See figure 3 in the current technical specification: Download PDF at https://www.rooco.eu/2018/06/13/technica...ssier-hat/

The picture shows what you get. There are of course solder pads for the IO headers available. If you want to use them you can solder a header on your own.

[Smartell]

Hello Smartell,

the pictures are for reference only and are 3D renderings, so no solder pads are shown at all.
See figure 3 in the current technical specification: Download PDF at https://www.rooco.eu/2018/06/13/technica...ssier-hat/

The picture shows what you get. There are of course solder pads for the IO headers available. If you want to use them you can solder a header on your own.

Thanks for the information. I guess that the picture to the right on page 2 is also a 3D rendering but with headers etc...a bit confusing.

Anyway, with this info in my pocket i can go ahead and order :-)

BR/M

[Rooco]

Hello Smartell,

the pictures are for reference only and are 3D renderings, so no solder pads are shown at all.
See figure 3 in the current technical specification: Download PDF at https://www.rooco.eu/2018/06/13/technica...ssier-hat/

The picture shows what you get. There are of course solder pads for the IO headers available. If you want to use them you can solder a header on your own.

Thanks for the information. I guess that the picture to the right on page 2 is also a 3D rendering but with headers etc...a bit confusing.

Anyway, with this info in my pocket i can go ahead and order :-)

BR/M

You are right. All figures except figure 3 are 3D renderings. The aim of figure 2 is to illustrate how to identify the different available options.
Figure 3 by the way is PE77001E02-UART (= basic model + UART option).

I will update the technical specification with the pinout of the HAT headers in the next few days.

Regards,
Thomas

[Smartell]

Hello Smartell,

the pictures are for reference only and are 3D renderings, so no solder pads are shown at all.
See figure 3 in the current technical specification: Download PDF at https://www.rooco.eu/2018/06/13/technica...ssier-hat/

The picture shows what you get. There are of course solder pads for the IO headers available. If you want to use them you can solder a header on your own.

Thanks for the information. I guess that the picture to the right on page 2 is also a 3D rendering but with headers etc...a bit confusing.

Anyway, with this info in my pocket i can go ahead and order :-)

BR/M

You are right. All figures except figure 3 are 3D renderings. The aim of figure 2 is to illustrate how to identify the different available options.
Figure 3 by the way is PE77001E02-UART (= basic model + UART option).

I will update the technical specification with the pinout of the HAT headers in the next few days.

Regards,
Thomas

Thanks Thomas, looks like a really great product...my sailboat will love it!

/M

[dlorrain]

Hi,

I tried to install it on a fresh open plotter install on my new rpi 3+ and here is the error message : "

INFO: Loading driver "./i2c-gpio-param.ko".

insmod: ERROR: could not insert module ./i2c-gpio-param.ko: Invalid module format

******************************************************************************************
ERROR occured!!

Could not load "./i2c-gpio-param.ko".

I tried to install it manually and same error Invalid module format

Any idea ?

Thanks