This sort of thing is just what I'm thinking of installing on our 50-year-old H-boat... when the paint job is finally done. Keep posting this kind of stuff, it is extremely useful.
Nice Summerize. I guess this will be my antidepressant therapy for winter. One question I had in mind: why dont you need the dAISy for this setup? I just ordered one with the MacArthur HAT. Thanks again!
Because I connected MAIANA. Of course the dAISy HAT is a good choice as well. The reason for MAIANA for me was that I got GPS plus AIS in one single connection.
I did several videos for specific components, e.g. SignalK. But I think every sailer needs to find the right setup specific for his purpose. So, my goal with my videos is always helping to help yourself.
first time I see a pi 4 for that. Can you say something how you solved hthe power problem during the sailing ? Probly also the reason why you didn't use a pi5 !?
As I started on my boat there has been no PI5. And as MacArthur was published, PI5 was not fully supported. This changed with OpenPlotter 4.x.x. The advantage of a PI4 is the lower power consumption. And the PI4 is fast enough if you don't use OpenCPN. So, currently the PI4 is fine for me. What power issue are you referring to? The PI4 takes 3-5W on my setup. I have a LiFePo4 running, so, no worries.
@@VK-qh6pr Since this year I am using the MacArthur HAT with the additional 12V supply PCB. This makes life very easy. Here you find the docs regarding the 12V supply: macarthur-hat-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/power.html
You need a system with NMEA output. If you just have an analog signal, the conversion would need some effort and know-how. My wireless NASA reveivee has a NMEA0183 output which feeds the CLIPPER displays.
I’ve bought a raspberry pi 5, McArthur hat, dAISy hat, and 2tb nmve base. I have high aspirations but 0 experience with anything like this. Any suggestions?
Watch as many utube vids on setp as poss. I run opencpn on openplotter and signalk which is fairly straight forward without any coding knowledge. Read the opencpn manuals, install the latest software and document your install and config so it's repeatable...good luck!
That is a quite open question. What is you goal? Do you want to replace a plotter or just getting AIS in? Take a first little use-case, e.g. forwarding AIS, and start your journey...
@@Sir-Real I’d like to use it for a chart plotter, a hub for all NMEA 2000 communications, ais, and eventually auto pilot and security. My boat is 4 hours away so this gives me something to work on when I’m not at the boat. I am at the step “plug power cord here to turn on”. So, I got a long way to go.
@@nutsandbolts432 Plugging in power is a very important step ;) Well, you need to find you own way. I personally started with a non-desktop Rasbian, playing with GPIO and I2C, later Node-RED. I didn't use the desktop environment for a long time. This changed now with the OpenPlotter setup on my boat, but I think it was a very valuable learning to work on prompt level. If your main target is to get OpenPlotter working, you should start with a ready-to-use-build of the OpenPlotter page and go from there. But - there are many forums which will help.
This sort of thing is just what I'm thinking of installing on our 50-year-old H-boat... when the paint job is finally done. Keep posting this kind of stuff, it is extremely useful.
Great video mate, besides the monitor you have inside the boat you also have one on the helm?
I really love your content. Keep the great work up and please create more content like this 😊
Nice Summerize. I guess this will be my antidepressant therapy for winter. One question I had in mind: why dont you need the dAISy for this setup? I just ordered one with the MacArthur HAT. Thanks again!
Because I connected MAIANA. Of course the dAISy HAT is a good choice as well. The reason for MAIANA for me was that I got GPS plus AIS in one single connection.
do you have a step by step tutorial for setting up all the software needed for sailing?
I did several videos for specific components, e.g. SignalK. But I think every sailer needs to find the right setup specific for his purpose. So, my goal with my videos is always helping to help yourself.
first time I see a pi 4 for that. Can you say something how you solved hthe power problem during the sailing ? Probly also the reason why you didn't use a pi5 !?
As I started on my boat there has been no PI5.
And as MacArthur was published, PI5 was not fully supported. This changed with OpenPlotter 4.x.x.
The advantage of a PI4 is the lower power consumption.
And the PI4 is fast enough if you don't use OpenCPN.
So, currently the PI4 is fine for me.
What power issue are you referring to? The PI4 takes 3-5W on my setup. I have a LiFePo4 running, so, no worries.
@@Sir-Realthanks for that. I expect actually a bit more. Do you have some documentation about the cabling battery to pi ?
@@VK-qh6pr Since this year I am using the MacArthur HAT with the additional 12V supply PCB. This makes life very easy. Here you find the docs regarding the 12V supply:
macarthur-hat-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/power.html
I have a NASA Clipper Wind System installed on my boat. It does not have any Nmea support. How do u get the data to the raspberry?
You need a system with NMEA output. If you just have an analog signal, the conversion would need some effort and know-how.
My wireless NASA reveivee has a NMEA0183 output which feeds the CLIPPER displays.
I’ve bought a raspberry pi 5, McArthur hat, dAISy hat, and 2tb nmve base. I have high aspirations but 0 experience with anything like this. Any suggestions?
Watch as many utube vids on setp as poss. I run opencpn on openplotter and signalk which is fairly straight forward without any coding knowledge. Read the opencpn manuals, install the latest software and document your install and config so it's repeatable...good luck!
That is a quite open question. What is you goal? Do you want to replace a plotter or just getting AIS in?
Take a first little use-case, e.g. forwarding AIS, and start your journey...
@@Sir-Real I’d like to use it for a chart plotter, a hub for all NMEA 2000 communications, ais, and eventually auto pilot and security. My boat is 4 hours away so this gives me something to work on when I’m not at the boat. I am at the step “plug power cord here to turn on”. So, I got a long way to go.
@@nutsandbolts432 Plugging in power is a very important step ;)
Well, you need to find you own way. I personally started with a non-desktop Rasbian, playing with GPIO and I2C, later Node-RED. I didn't use the desktop environment for a long time. This changed now with the OpenPlotter setup on my boat, but I think it was a very valuable learning to work on prompt level.
If your main target is to get OpenPlotter working, you should start with a ready-to-use-build of the OpenPlotter page and go from there.
But - there are many forums which will help.
Might be Bareboat Necessities OS for pi5 would be a good and easier start for you.
What was the name of the other plotter software you were trying??
I use Navionics on my tablet but on OpenPlotter you can get
1) OpenCPN
2) avNav