Philippe from France presented us with an interesting project on how, as a blue-water sailor, you can use a cheap satellite communication device to access weather data at any point on earth via SMS. We want to introduce it here. Anyone traveling far from the mainland with their boat needs reliable weather data every day for route planning. The weather data can be obtained in different ways:
- Internet connection via satellite
- Short wave Pactor connection to the mainland
- Short wave weather fax
- Long wave short form weather data
In the age of universally available Internet, however, there is a high cost for a satellite system with the corresponding data throughput.… Continue reading
First of all, a few important notes that you should definitely pay attention to.
Fig: Yachta wind sensor
The Yachta wind sensor is a further development of a wind sensor from the Yachta user at bei Thingiverse was presented. The technical principle of operation is based on one Hall sensor for measuring wind speed and on one magnetic rotation sensor for measuring the wind direction. Udo from the german sailing forum took up the idea and made some improvements to the wind sensor.… Continue reading
First of all, a few important notes that you should definitely pay attention to.
The universal wind sensor firmware supports various wind sensors. It is based on the firmware for DIY wind sensor WiFi 1000 and has been expanded to include further wind sensor types. Different types of sensors, such as analogue, magnetic and digital, can be connected. The corresponding wind sensor is selected in the firmware. No other settings need to be made.… Continue reading
First of all, a few important notes that you should definitely pay attention to.
Fig: radio remote control
It is often the case that the anchor winch can only be operated via permanently installed switches and the switches are mounted in such a way that the anchor halyard or the hauling up cannot be properly seen. The use of an additional remote control is much more practical. This allows you to operate the anchor winch from any location and is no longer subject to restrictions.… Continue reading
First of all, a few important notes that you should definitely pay attention to.
Fig: Remote control for Raymarine Evo Pilot
The user matztam from the sailing forum has presented a remote control for the Raymarine Evo Pilot. The remote control works on 433 MHz and converts the received signals into the NMEA2000 network. In this way, the settings for the Raymarine autopilot can be made very conveniently.… Continue reading
First of all, a few important notes that you should definitely pay attention to.
Fig .: Clipper wind instrument (Clipper)
Some older models of Clipper wind instruments have a 5-pin DIN socket on the back for a daughter display. The wind data are also output as NMEA0183 via this DIN socket. Unfortunately, the signals do not correspond to the RS422 standard and cannot be used further. 5V TTL levels are used as the output signal with very low current carrying capacity.… Continue reading
Jürgen has in Sailing forum presented a weather fax receiver that I would like to introduce here. A simple world receiver and the weather fax app are used to receive weather faxes HF WEATHER FAX used. We recommend the following two world receivers from Sony, which have proven themselves:
Fig .: ICF-2001D
Depending on the travel area, the corresponding short-wave transmission frequency is set in the world receiver. With the app, the digitally coded transmission is received via the microphone and displayed accordingly as an image.… Continue reading
Fig .: Ultrasonic level sensor
https://www.segeln-forum.de/thread/76476-ber%C3%BChrungsloses-messen-von-tankinhalten/?postID=2301715#post2301715
Fred has another implementation of an ultrasonic tank sensor with him SensESP and a Wemos D1 mini. The Ultrasonic sensor DS1603L detects liquid levels in a tank and provides the corresponding measured values via SensESP via WiFi SignalK. SensESP is a software framework for the Arduino IDE with which various sensors can be easily integrated into SignalK.… Continue reading
For hobbyists, the world of electronics offers interesting microcontroller modules with which many demanding projects can be implemented. Microcontrollers that can be easily and easily programmed are of particular interest. Atmel offers a range of 8-bit microcontrollers with many additional functions integrated, such as program memory, data memory, counters, pulse-width modulated outputs (PWM outputs), analog-to-digital converters (AD converters), digital-to-analog converters (DA converter), serial interface (RS232), various bus systems (I2C) and much more, so that you can implement your own electronic projects without much additional effort.… Continue reading
First of all, a few important notes that you should definitely pay attention to.
Fig: WiFi battery monitor
The WiFi battery monitor can be integrated into SignalK. The measurement data can then be displayed in the instrument panel. A small detour via MQTT is necessary for integration in SignalK. Since the WiFi battery monitor can also communicate with the Tasmota software via MQTT as standard, we use this interface in conjunction with the SignalK plug-in signal-mqtt-gw by Teppo Kurki.… Continue reading