MacENC 8 supports NMEA 2000

Richard Ray announced on the forum macsailing.net forum that great progress had been made on adding support NMEA 2000 in MacENC. MacENC 8 now use the Actisense NGT-1 USB gateway to connect your Mac to an N2K network (¹).

NGT-1 : NMEA Gateway 2000 to Mac/PC

The NGT-1 is a NMEA 2000, interface device with a fully functional bi-directional firewall gateway. This is a TPG (Third Party Gateway), NMEA-certified third-party gateway 2000.

The NGT-1 transfers NMEA 2000 messages to and from NMEA 2000 bus using the DLL Actisense Comms (Dynamic Linked Library). This ensures that all Actisense certified software can send and receive NMEA data 2000, without any translations getting in the way and changing the data.

The NGT-1 is available in USB connection, USB standard 1.1 and 2.0, for the interface of bi-directional connection to a Mac or PC (²). Designed for use with NMEA navigation software 2000 that have been certified as compatible.

Full galvanic opto-isolation is provided for superior USB port protection. Thus, Full isolation is maintained between the PC input/output and the CAN bus connection (³) NMEA 2000.

MacENC 8

The commercial version of MacENC 8.20 has been tested and confirmed to be operational by Actisense and awarded it the 5 of its tests. NMEA data 2000 processed by MacENC are listed in this table.

Learn more about the NMEA 2000

• View Entries NMEA and NMEA2000 from February the Glossary.
• A Powerpoint document presenting the NMEA2000 (in English)
• Adjustment and installation networks NMEA2000 (LEI), PDF in French.

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(¹) N2K : US abbreviation of NMEA 2000 (N 2 kilos).
(²) Its driver for OS X is FTDI V.2.02.17 available on the manufacturer's website.
(³) Controller Area Network : standard bus developed by Intel and Bosch and selected by NMEA 2000.

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