NMEA

Since firmware release 3.6.0, several updates have been released, until the latest 3.14.0. It is to be implemented with the latest version of the MPX-Config utility 3.10.0, only available for PC/Windows. The whole thing is Read more …

Warning : This article is for advanced users only. ShipModul has just released a new MiniPlex-3 firmware (V.3.6.0) and an updated version of the MPXConfig3 configuration utility (V.3.6.0) PC/Windows. This is an update regarding improvements and Read more …

The MiniPlex-3 multiplexer has known since November 2021 many software improvements and changes with firmware (Firmware) versions 3.x.x. The latest version 3.4.0 date of 13 rd, January 2022. These firmwares are closely associated with the MPXConfig3 utility of which Read more …

From iOS / iPadOS version 14.5, a new setting has appeared proposing to allow application access to the Local Network. This option is offered when installing a new application, but is not necessarily activated if the application is already installed when Read more …

(First published on 8 December 2010) Dear friends macusers, the approach of Christmas, we need to be charitable, particularly to users of Windows PCs. Indeed, in the face of the influx of requests concerning the methods of control of a Read more …

Since it was introduced to the market in September 2014 (Eh, yes, 5 years ago !) this device, with its indisputable ergonomics and excellent quality/price ratio, has become a must-have for offshore sailors. Easy to Read more …

For several years it is possible to integrate iPads and other mobile devices using Wi-Fi to onboard instruments. This enables navigation applications, not only receive all sensor data : log, anemometer, sounder, AIS, Read more …

Many AIS tracking networks broadcast over the Internet are available. Among the best known : Marine Traffic, Vessel Finder, SiiTech, LocalizaTodo, and many others. One of these networks especially stands out, AISHub, an AIS data sharing center Read more …

ShipModul just completed a major upgrade of V.2.0.6 MiniPlex-3 firmware. Once installed in the MiniPlex-3-N2K, it becomes a certified product NMEA2000®. To perform this update, it is imperative to download and install the new Read more …

The manufacturer ShipModul just put for download on his web site two major updates of its multiplexer Miniplex-3 : Miniplex-3 Firmware V.1.17 Wi-Fi Firmware V.1.4 The two update files, featured with a procedure (in Read more …

Expected for almost two years, hoped more, we despaired… but here it is in my hands. Alleluia ! The Wi-Fi NMEA0183 multiplexer, NMEA2000 gateway and SeaTalk1 translator is available in France (¹). The same size and also Read more …

SailRacer UAB is a small Lithuanian company founded in 2013 by a team of experienced developers and regatta passionate . They design solutions for the sailors and clubs, both software and devices, focusing on developing applications and Read more …

You will soon hear about Signal K, a marine data communication standard, développé en open source, which aims to replace the standard NMEA (0183 and 2000) technically overwhelmed by the exponential development of connected objects. designers Read more …

Iridium has just published an update of its Iridium GO device firmware! to correct a number of dysfunctions, including the slowness of data transfers (Messaging, GRIB files, aso.) but also recurring communication problems Read more …

ShipModul society produced a version Mac OS X, the MPX-Config configuration utility for its multiplexer Miniplex-ridengithigh (¹). It is now available in the Downloads section of the website. This utility allows to perform the multiplexer settings Read more …

Since the release of Iridium GO! (¹) There were two different pages of subscription (for free) to messaging service, and two applications (iOS/Android) to connect to the Iridium devices. Now there is only one application : Iridium Mail Read more …

Since its announcement in February, the GO! is expected to come from dealers at the beginning of this month. The company E - SAT in gave me one to conduct some tests. Although too late to perform Read more …

After the announcement with great pomp of GO! Iridium a few months ago, but not yet available, INMARSAT has IsatHub at the CommunicAsia fair which has just closed its doors in Singapore. Competition is severe between Read more …

We talk about it in the press The global satellite company targets the consumer market with Iridium GO!™ : pack it for camping or world travel (¹). In all public places where you can connect without Read more …

In coastal navigation, sometimes it is easier to connect to 3G cellular network to get a WiFi connection with an access point to earth. cell transmission antennas are increasingly numerous on the coast Read more …

Hey yes, this is the world upside down ! At the beginning of iPad use in a boat, the tablet was used to capture the screen of a PC fixed to a chart table for display applications such as MaxSea in the cockpit. Read more …

Request more frequent from boat owners is for the installation of a WiFi reception onboard. The proliferation of computers, tablets and smartphones on boats incentive to maintain a connection with the Internet, even navigation. To exchange Read more …

In a previous article I talked about the NGW-1 company Actisense (¹), an NMEA 0183 converter to NMEA 2000 bidirectional. Since then, This gateway has been available in several versions. Each one allows you to connect to the network Read more …

Digital Yacht society continues to offer new products for pleasure (¹). One, iNAVConnect, allows to connect by WiFi iPad or iPhone, featured iNavX, Navionics Marine, or any other compatible application, to Read more …

NMEA 2000® (¹) is a standard for electronic communication network specifically designed for pleasure boats, according to an industry standard published by the National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA). It aims to meet many needs, born Read more …

The company has just introduced ShipModul on its website its new wireless multiplexer, Miniplex-2Wi. This device comes in direct competition to the IMUX Brookhouse, on which I wrote several posts on this blog, but penalized since early 2011 Read more …

Le SeaSmart WiFi, presented by iTabNav.fr at the Nautic in Paris last week, allows a WiFi connection to iPad , iPhone or any other computer via WiFi to a NMEA 2000. Designed by Chetco Digital Instruments, to Brookings in Read more …

My Fischer 37 "Lady Jane" is equipped at the base of a conventional antenna Raymarine GPS, the trio wind, depth, speed instruments, and a multi chartplotter / Radar C70 : In November 2010, Reading this blog has me Read more …

In the spring 2008, Mølgaard Marine House Company has designed one of the first multiplexers WiFi for connecting the pleasure of navigation instruments and an AIS to an embedded computer. If this product is still available today, the Read more …

The multiplexer Miniplex USB-2 (¹) by ShipModul company can connect all the instruments on board directly to a USB connector on your Mac. GPSNavX and MacENC software can receive and display NMEA instruments, and Read more …

In the very next post, I will explain in detail the implementation of a multiplexer (¹) Miniplex 2USB de-ShipModul. But before removing the electrical panel and pull out the tool box, you better understand the Read more …

It is now possible to connect a N2K system (¹) to iNavX, on iPhone or iPad. Indeed, Actisense company, well known for its NMEA interfaces (multiplexers and gateways), designed the NGW-1 ISO, a data converter Read more …

More and more great ! After Wi-SP Digi Connect, l’iAIS de Digital Yacht, here's IMUX of Brookhouse. The multiplexer is a iMux (*) NMEA 0183 able to transmit in WiFi data from the instruments connected to it (GPS, Navigation, Read more …

I explained, in a recent post, on receiving NMEA data from instruments on board without going through a Mac (or PC) aboard. It is now possible to do the same for the reception of AIS data with Read more …

It is increasingly common to see an AIS receiver, Automatic Identification System (*), receiver above yacht's chart tables. Although only merchant vessels of over 300 barrels and ships Read more …

By creating a VNC connection (Virtual Network Computing) it is possible to control a navigation application like MacENC or OpenCPN from an iPad. This latter becomes an active screen repeater, and offers the possibility, not only view the screen Read more …

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