This was a really detailed walk-through. It helps me massively when getting started with a project like this. Thanks for all effort put into this. Cheers.
Love the lesson! Im restoring a 30 year old 32ft Beneteau with a totally rebuilt Volvo Penta 2003, I have rebuilt the control panel with all new digital gauges from Aliexpress and in the process of digitising all the sensors to be on the NMEA network so that the BandG chart plotter can display the engine data as well. I will be using the OpenPlotter as a redundant system in case of equipment failure while sailing around Australia for a year.
Thanks for the message Charles. Sounds like you have a great project on the go and some amazing sailing ahead. Australia is definitely on the list for us. All the best with the project and fair winds⛵️
Sorry for not responding sooner I’m still fitting out remainder of woodwork. Delayed for 6-8 months attempting to paint in high humidity. Should start electrical fitout in next 2 months will let you know more when complete.
Hi, this is a fantastic video. Thank you for documenting it so well. I am also in the process digitalizing some engine data (Volvo Penta 2001). So far, I managed to hook up a few 1wire sensors. Next, I am looking into RPM with a Hall effect sensor installed on the shaft + getting the engine temperature. I would really appreciate a deeper dive both on hardware and coding for the RPM and engine temp setup. Many thanks again, I am looking forward to the next episode. P.S. I do not mind the length of the video at all.
Hi, I’ve got a video next week around the sensors I’ve used to get this far. I also started with Hall effect and then I managed to find an example of a circuit which is triggered by the alternator. The good news is that it doesn’t stop the the VP rpm gauge working. I’ve documented all of it, got links and also tried to show how the circuit works. Hopefully that will explain a few things and fill in the blanks from this video. For temperature I’m using an copy of the example code on SENSESP and then I had to calibrate that. More on that next week. Many thanks for your comments also.
Thanks for making this video, very informative and really helpful!. I've been looking into implementing signal K for a little while after writing a custom genset pre-heat controller, throttle management, and stop timer. Now I'm def going to swap over to the esp32 [for the wifi], SenseESP, and signal K to try and combine the gen info with the main engine and maybe a chain counter hopfuly even intigrate on to my NMEA 2k network.. Anyway, I'm off to binge on the rest of your content - this is the first of your videos I have seen.. Thanks again.
Wonderful ! Thank you for doing this. There is alot to be done for the "common man" to be able to incorporate esp and sensors to Signal K system. Im not sure if I have the brains for it, but will try as best I can. A question: Is it easy possible to readout the "W" signal from the alternator with an esp? It would be an easy way to get the rpm data. I have a Actisense EMU-1 to read motordata and convert it to NMEA2000. It connects to the alternator, and works perfect. Keep on the good work, and make more guides. Very informative. Just started with Visual Studio and Platform IO..... A bit overwhelming.......
Thanks for your comments, I felt the same once I purchased the esp32 and v1 of that software definitely was a learning curve from what I had setup before. The good news is that now you can start with a copy paste of examples and get something to work which I think really helps understand what it’s doing. Then you build on that. Yes to the W terminal, that’s how my rpm is working on an MD2030. Next weeks video is all about the electronics which again I’ve googled but it’s working well. I’m now working on predicting fuel consumption as I know how fast the engine is running.
Another great video, thank you. I have been working on a SensESP project for my father-in-law’s boat. Do you run any environment/ battery monitoring full time for when you are away from the boat for extended periods?
Many thanks for your comments. I don’t leave anything on at the moment, still in the habit of isolating everything when we leave as we don’t always know when we will be back. I have thought about some sort of monitoring and I do have a small Lorawan card I could use otherwise I’m relying on the WiFi. Is that your plan with this project?
Hi Matt, I subscribed to your channel soon after you started. I have watched the upgrade of your electronic instruments/sensors with great interest and decided to start the same process on my Bavaria 31 whilst the weather is so poor here in the UK. I'm not that knowledgeable regarding programming etc. but want to learn more. I have a Raspberry Pi 4B and this week have followed your instructions on how to set up the BME280 & 1 wire sensors. My question is why do you need an ESP32? Is it simply to send information via WiFi to the Raspberry from the engine bay? Plus. where did you buy the brackets for your bilge sensors? I look forward to following more great content on your Channel.
Hi John, many thanks for your message and for sticking with us, it’s great to have you onboard. The esp is doing exactly as you describe, it’s an easy way to get data over WiFi from somewhere I’ve not got a lot of cabling. It’s also easy to configure and to get the info you want. Another example would be a chain counter. The brackets were from eBay I think, something similar to this and I just drilled out the the single hole to what I needed www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284877074314?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=1YQ-FBugRSG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=1XqhIgr5QPm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Lets us know if you need any further help with your setup and all the best with the project⛵️
This video might help you. I'm using a circuit that's linked in this video for RPM, for temp it's a KUS temp sensor and a voltage divider. You can also use digital 1wire sensors which I've used for the exhaust temp and now oil temp - let me know if you need anything further - OpenPlotter - ESP32 - Circuits & Sensors - Digitising an older engine MD2030 - SensESP th-cam.com/video/I12NdvRQNxY/w-d-xo.html
I built mine with a database server and an esp32 on Arduino libraries. I haven't put it in signal K yet as I am having trouble with the signal k database and assorted issues. They all stem from I cant actually get a Raspberry Pi that the package will properly install on. They are backordered until April or May most places and are pushing $100US. I am using Pine64 boards as I have a pile of them that I purchased for $7. The plotter works at like 90 percent on Ubuntu/Debian, but it was coded to be compatible with a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian...I guess I might just keep the Pine64 boards and code what I need by hand. I've got to put that Comp Sci Degree to use somehow.
Hi - Thats on the list to look at, i do have the start of a video which now shows the install and connection to SignalK but i would like to include a bit more before i publish it. I'll add that to the list.
Hi you have just undertaken the very project I have on my desk. I could not get to the end of the video because the back ground music I found very irritating, do you think you could remove it ?
Apologies for that. I’m never sure what to do with music on this. If folks are happy with just me talking and then silence in the other parts of the video I’m happy to start doing that. I’ll see if I still have this video in the editing software and upload it without music. - thanks for the feedback
Hi, What operating system is on the laptop? SignalK will run on Windows and I think that's probably the easiest option. Your other option is to set up the ESP to put the data directly on the NMEA network but it would need to be NMEA 2000 to get all the more interesting data to work.
@@BoatingwiththeBaileysThanks for getting back to me, yes windows, I'm not sure if NMEA 2000 would be good for me because most of my kit is NMEA 0183. Is signal K an alternative to Grafana? I am trying to play catch-up with what's doable by watching your videos and then realised that openCPN and Openplotter are different.
@@rayhsetwo8594 Ok, So that's possible on Windows - here is a link to SignalK for Windows github.com/SignalK/signalk-server-windows Signal K is an open platform for boat data. It doesn't actually store anything but it allows you to use software like Grafana to display the data. It also comes with other software packages such as KIP, which is another dashboarding tool that works straight out of the box. I have a video coming out this weekend showing an updated version of that. SignalK - Boat data platform Grafana - Visualisation Tool KIP - Dashboard/Visualisation Tool OpenCPN - Chart & data visualisation software OpenPlotter - All the above in a nice easy-to-install package with an Operating system. If you don't want to change too much for now and you are happy with OpenCPN and your laptop. I would install SignalK, build an ESP if you want to get your engine data in and then I would setup some dashboards to display that data in KIP or Grafana. You can also pull some info in OpenCPN
I tried to download Signal K but it says it does not support windows versions below Windows 10. I will have to see if I can use a different laptop. Thanks for the list and steps to download re: the apps and an ESP...I will look at doing all that.
If you need another laptop, I would seriously consider a Pi for this bit and leave your laptop running the plotter and anything else. Cheap, low power and the software just drops right on 👍
ciao sto seguendo il tuo progetto, ma non riesco a compilarlo. i driver e la scelta dell'ESP sono corretti, infatti altri programmi sono normalmente caricati. Quando provo a compilare la tua applicazione incorro nei seguenti errori: #define LED_BUILTIN LED_BUILTIN :note: this is the location of the previous definition :error: expected unqualified-id before numeric constant e successivamente: ***[.pio/build/esp32doit-devkit-v1/libc67/FS/FS.cpp.o]Error1 ***[.pio/build/esp32doit-devkit-v1/libd81/reactESP/ReactESP.cpp.o] Error 1 .............. src/main.cpp:127:28:error: expected type-specifier before 'MovingAverage' puoi aiutarmi a risolvere?
It is not happy with the fuel consumption part of the code. Do you have the following like at the top in your includes? #include "sensesp/transforms/moving_average.h" Non è soddisfatto della parte del codice relativa al consumo di carburante. Hai i seguenti like in alto nei tuoi include? #include "sensesp/transforms/moving_average.h"
@@BoatingwiththeBaileys si grazie il problema è risolto. Tutto funziona, ma non riesco a cambiare SSID e password sull'ESP32. mi puoi aiutare ? Vorrei anche inserire il controllo del serbatoio carburante il mio sensore va da un valore da 350 Ohm (vuoto) a 18 Ohm (pieno) mi dai un consiglio? grazie.
Good. Glad you got it working. The SSID and password should appeard when it first starts up. It should broadcast an SSID for you to connect to. Is this happening? signalk.org/SensESP/pages/user_interface/ For the fuel tank, if you use the same code as the tempreature sensor you just need to change anything that uses temp to another name. Create another 'class TemperatureInterpreter : public CurveInterpolator { public:' and again call it something else. I will try and do a video on this as this has come up a couple of times. ------- Bene. Sono contento che tu abbia funzionato. L'SSID e la password dovrebbero apparire al primo avvio. Dovrebbe trasmettere un SSID a cui connettersi. Sta succedendo? signalk.org/SensESP/pages/user_interface/ Per il serbatoio del carburante, se usi lo stesso codice del sensore di temperatura, devi solo cambiare tutto ciò che usa temp con un altro nome. Crea un'altra 'class TemperatureInterpreter: public CurveInterpolator { public:' e chiamalo di nuovo qualcos'altro. Proverò a fare un video su questo dato che è emerso un paio di volte.
@@BoatingwiththeBaileys Ti ringrazio, in attesa del tuo video sul serbatoio carburante, proverò a seguire il tuo consiglio di replicare il metodo di controllo temperatura. A proposito dell'SSID/password ,ho fatto diverse prove anche usando WiFi Manager con Arduino, ma non riesco in nessun modo a riportare la ESP32 nella condizione di Access Point iniziale ( quella descritta nel capitolo "User Interface" nel manuale di SensESP,) per poter inserire un nuovo SSID e una nuova Password.
This was a really detailed walk-through. It helps me massively when getting started with a project like this. Thanks for all effort put into this. Cheers.
Thanks for your comments - I was a bit worried at the length of the video. Glad it’s useful.
Love the lesson! Im restoring a 30 year old 32ft Beneteau with a totally rebuilt Volvo Penta 2003, I have rebuilt the control panel with all new digital gauges from Aliexpress and in the process of digitising all the sensors to be on the NMEA network so that the BandG chart plotter can display the engine data as well. I will be using the OpenPlotter as a redundant system in case of equipment failure while sailing around Australia for a year.
Thanks for the message Charles. Sounds like you have a great project on the go and some amazing sailing ahead. Australia is definitely on the list for us. All the best with the project and fair winds⛵️
Hello. I am planning the same task, 2003 Volvo md2030 on a Beneteau and want to tie into BandG system. How is your progress and any suggestions
Did you manage to get this setup?
how far did you get?
Sorry for not responding sooner
I’m still fitting out remainder of woodwork. Delayed for 6-8 months attempting to paint in high humidity. Should start electrical fitout in next 2 months will let you know more when complete.
Hi, this is a fantastic video. Thank you for documenting it so well. I am also in the process digitalizing some engine data (Volvo Penta 2001). So far, I managed to hook up a few 1wire sensors. Next, I am looking into RPM with a Hall effect sensor installed on the shaft + getting the engine temperature. I would really appreciate a deeper dive both on hardware and coding for the RPM and engine temp setup. Many thanks again, I am looking forward to the next episode. P.S. I do not mind the length of the video at all.
Hi, I’ve got a video next week around the sensors I’ve used to get this far. I also started with Hall effect and then I managed to find an example of a circuit which is triggered by the alternator. The good news is that it doesn’t stop the the VP rpm gauge working. I’ve documented all of it, got links and also tried to show how the circuit works. Hopefully that will explain a few things and fill in the blanks from this video. For temperature I’m using an copy of the example code on SENSESP and then I had to calibrate that. More on that next week. Many thanks for your comments also.
Thanks for making this video, very informative and really helpful!.
I've been looking into implementing signal K for a little while after writing a custom genset pre-heat controller, throttle management, and stop timer. Now I'm def going to swap over to the esp32 [for the wifi], SenseESP, and signal K to try and combine the gen info with the main engine and maybe a chain counter hopfuly even intigrate on to my NMEA 2k network..
Anyway, I'm off to binge on the rest of your content - this is the first of your videos I have seen..
Thanks again.
Thanks for your comments, hope you find the other videos helpful.
Wonderful ! Thank you for doing this. There is alot to be done for the "common man" to be able to incorporate esp and sensors to Signal K system. Im not sure if I have the brains for it, but will try as best I can. A question: Is it easy possible to readout the "W" signal from the alternator with an esp? It would be an easy way to get the rpm data. I have a Actisense EMU-1 to read motordata and convert it to NMEA2000. It connects to the alternator, and works perfect. Keep on the good work, and make more guides. Very informative. Just started with Visual Studio and Platform IO..... A bit overwhelming.......
Thanks for your comments, I felt the same once I purchased the esp32 and v1 of that software definitely was a learning curve from what I had setup before. The good news is that now you can start with a copy paste of examples and get something to work which I think really helps understand what it’s doing. Then you build on that. Yes to the W terminal, that’s how my rpm is working on an MD2030. Next weeks video is all about the electronics which again I’ve googled but it’s working well. I’m now working on predicting fuel consumption as I know how fast the engine is running.
Another great video, thank you.
I have been working on a SensESP project for my father-in-law’s boat. Do you run any environment/ battery monitoring full time for when you are away from the boat for extended periods?
Many thanks for your comments. I don’t leave anything on at the moment, still in the habit of isolating everything when we leave as we don’t always know when we will be back. I have thought about some sort of monitoring and I do have a small Lorawan card I could use otherwise I’m relying on the WiFi. Is that your plan with this project?
Hi Matt, I subscribed to your channel soon after you started. I have watched the upgrade of your electronic instruments/sensors with great interest and decided to start the same process on my Bavaria 31 whilst the weather is so poor here in the UK. I'm not that knowledgeable regarding programming etc. but want to learn more. I have a Raspberry Pi 4B and this week have followed your instructions on how to set up the BME280 & 1 wire sensors. My question is why do you need an ESP32? Is it simply to send information via WiFi to the Raspberry from the engine bay? Plus. where did you buy the brackets for your bilge sensors? I look forward to following more great content on your Channel.
Hi John, many thanks for your message and for sticking with us, it’s great to have you onboard.
The esp is doing exactly as you describe, it’s an easy way to get data over WiFi from somewhere I’ve not got a lot of cabling. It’s also easy to configure and to get the info you want. Another example would be a chain counter.
The brackets were from eBay I think, something similar to this and I just drilled out the the single hole to what I needed www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284877074314?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=1YQ-FBugRSG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=1XqhIgr5QPm&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
Lets us know if you need any further help with your setup and all the best with the project⛵️
@@BoatingwiththeBaileys Thanks Matt for your quick reply. I appreciate your offer of assistance, rest assured I'll certainly need it!
@johnsevieri7280 👍
Im looking forward to the sensor video.
Hi, can you let us know the actual sensor transducers you’re using - temp/rpm etc please?
This video might help you. I'm using a circuit that's linked in this video for RPM, for temp it's a KUS temp sensor and a voltage divider. You can also use digital 1wire sensors which I've used for the exhaust temp and now oil temp - let me know if you need anything further - OpenPlotter - ESP32 - Circuits & Sensors - Digitising an older engine MD2030 - SensESP
th-cam.com/video/I12NdvRQNxY/w-d-xo.html
I built mine with a database server and an esp32 on Arduino libraries. I haven't put it in signal K yet as I am having trouble with the signal k database and assorted issues. They all stem from I cant actually get a Raspberry Pi that the package will properly install on. They are backordered until April or May most places and are pushing $100US. I am using Pine64 boards as I have a pile of them that I purchased for $7. The plotter works at like 90 percent on Ubuntu/Debian, but it was coded to be compatible with a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian...I guess I might just keep the Pine64 boards and code what I need by hand. I've got to put that Comp Sci Degree to use somehow.
That’s the thing with these projects, you just start think what can I do next.
Have you gotten OTA updates installed. Is it the same way you did the uptime sensor
and thanks for the walkthrough. It helped alot. Mine did not go as smooth as yours.
Hi - Thats on the list to look at, i do have the start of a video which now shows the install and connection to SignalK but i would like to include a bit more before i publish it. I'll add that to the list.
Many thanks for your comments.
Hi you have just undertaken the very project I have on my desk. I could not get to the end of the video because the back ground music I found very irritating, do you think you could remove it ?
Apologies for that. I’m never sure what to do with music on this. If folks are happy with just me talking and then silence in the other parts of the video I’m happy to start doing that. I’ll see if I still have this video in the editing software and upload it without music. - thanks for the feedback
Can this be done in openCpn because I am using a laptop not a raspberry pi?
Hi, What operating system is on the laptop? SignalK will run on Windows and I think that's probably the easiest option. Your other option is to set up the ESP to put the data directly on the NMEA network but it would need to be NMEA 2000 to get all the more interesting data to work.
@@BoatingwiththeBaileysThanks for getting back to me, yes windows, I'm not sure if NMEA 2000 would be good for me because most of my kit is NMEA 0183.
Is signal K an alternative to Grafana? I am trying to play catch-up with what's doable by watching your videos and then realised that openCPN and Openplotter are different.
@@rayhsetwo8594 Ok, So that's possible on Windows - here is a link to SignalK for Windows github.com/SignalK/signalk-server-windows
Signal K is an open platform for boat data. It doesn't actually store anything but it allows you to use software like Grafana to display the data. It also comes with other software packages such as KIP, which is another dashboarding tool that works straight out of the box. I have a video coming out this weekend showing an updated version of that.
SignalK - Boat data platform
Grafana - Visualisation Tool
KIP - Dashboard/Visualisation Tool
OpenCPN - Chart & data visualisation software
OpenPlotter - All the above in a nice easy-to-install package with an Operating system.
If you don't want to change too much for now and you are happy with OpenCPN and your laptop. I would install SignalK, build an ESP if you want to get your engine data in and then I would setup some dashboards to display that data in KIP or Grafana. You can also pull some info in OpenCPN
I tried to download Signal K but it says it does not support windows versions below Windows 10. I will have to see if I can use a different laptop.
Thanks for the list and steps to download re: the apps and an ESP...I will look at doing all that.
If you need another laptop, I would seriously consider a Pi for this bit and leave your laptop running the plotter and anything else. Cheap, low power and the software just drops right on 👍
WOW!!!
Thanks - This was a good project and I've got a couple of updates coming soon.
Goodness, the price has increased from £6.20 to £10.90
Not surprised, I do want to pick another up
Darn - they've priced the common man out of this too. 🤣
ciao sto seguendo il tuo progetto, ma non riesco a compilarlo. i driver e la scelta dell'ESP sono corretti, infatti altri programmi sono normalmente caricati. Quando provo a compilare la tua applicazione incorro nei seguenti errori:
#define LED_BUILTIN LED_BUILTIN
:note: this is the location of the previous definition
:error: expected unqualified-id before numeric constant
e successivamente:
***[.pio/build/esp32doit-devkit-v1/libc67/FS/FS.cpp.o]Error1
***[.pio/build/esp32doit-devkit-v1/libd81/reactESP/ReactESP.cpp.o] Error 1
..............
src/main.cpp:127:28:error: expected type-specifier before 'MovingAverage'
puoi aiutarmi a risolvere?
It is not happy with the fuel consumption part of the code. Do you have the following like at the top in your includes?
#include "sensesp/transforms/moving_average.h"
Non è soddisfatto della parte del codice relativa al consumo di carburante. Hai i seguenti like in alto nei tuoi include?
#include "sensesp/transforms/moving_average.h"
@@BoatingwiththeBaileys si grazie il problema è risolto. Tutto funziona, ma non riesco a cambiare SSID e password sull'ESP32. mi puoi aiutare ?
Vorrei anche inserire il controllo del serbatoio carburante il mio sensore va da un valore da 350 Ohm (vuoto) a 18 Ohm (pieno) mi dai un consiglio?
grazie.
Good. Glad you got it working. The SSID and password should appeard when it first starts up. It should broadcast an SSID for you to connect to. Is this happening? signalk.org/SensESP/pages/user_interface/
For the fuel tank, if you use the same code as the tempreature sensor you just need to change anything that uses temp to another name. Create another 'class TemperatureInterpreter : public CurveInterpolator {
public:' and again call it something else.
I will try and do a video on this as this has come up a couple of times.
-------
Bene. Sono contento che tu abbia funzionato. L'SSID e la password dovrebbero apparire al primo avvio. Dovrebbe trasmettere un SSID a cui connettersi. Sta succedendo? signalk.org/SensESP/pages/user_interface/
Per il serbatoio del carburante, se usi lo stesso codice del sensore di temperatura, devi solo cambiare tutto ciò che usa temp con un altro nome. Crea un'altra 'class TemperatureInterpreter: public CurveInterpolator {
public:' e chiamalo di nuovo qualcos'altro.
Proverò a fare un video su questo dato che è emerso un paio di volte.
@@BoatingwiththeBaileys Ti ringrazio, in attesa del tuo video sul serbatoio carburante, proverò a seguire il tuo consiglio di replicare il metodo di controllo temperatura. A proposito dell'SSID/password ,ho fatto diverse prove anche usando WiFi Manager con Arduino, ma non riesco in nessun modo a riportare la ESP32 nella condizione di Access Point iniziale ( quella descritta nel capitolo "User Interface" nel manuale di SensESP,) per poter inserire un nuovo SSID e una nuova Password.
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