OpenPlotter
Contents
general
Aim
- fit a cheap and open source ECDIS on board of a sailing vessel
analog
- rudder angle sensor (VDO 10-180 Ohm) not yet connected
- fuel-level port (???) not yet connected
- fuel-level starboard (???) not yet connected
- drinking water (WEMA ??? 600mm) not yet connected
- see also:
nmea0183
- VHV radio (Navman VHF 7100) RS-422, differential
- gps (Garmin GPS 126) RS-232, single-ended
- see also http://boatprojects.blogspot.de/2012/12/beginners-guide-to-nmea-2000-nmea-0183.html
SeaTalkng network
- em-trak B100 ( http://www.allaboutais.com/index.php/en/products/products-on-the-market )
- PGN 129025 Position
- PGN 129026 COG and SOG
- NOT 129029 GNSS Position Data
- autopilot control unit (Raymarine ACU-200)
- autopilot sensor (Raymarine EV1)
- PGN 127245 Rudder
- PGN 127250 Vessel Heading
- PGN 127251 Rate of Turn
- PGN 127357 Attitude
- autopilot instrument (Raymarine p70s)
- PGN 127245 Rudder
- PGN 127258 Magnetic Variation
- battery monitor (Victron BMV-702, 'VE.Direct to NMEA2000 interface')
- battery inverter/charger (Victron MultiPlus, 'VE.Bus to NMEA2000 interface')
- Raymarine iTC-5 converter
- sumlog (VDO, Model?)
- depth sounder (Airmar, Model?)
- optional: Raymarine M81105 rudder angle sensor
- Red to Green: 5K Ohms (+/- 10%) steady
- Red to Blue: Variable no less than 1.5K no more than 3.5K as the wheel is spun hardover to hardover
- Blue to Green: Variable no less than 1.5K no more than 3.5K as the wheel is spun hardover to hardover
- A 5K pot, probably wire wound, not particularly good precision ($10) packaged in a plastic moulding ($200), but typically very reliable
- http://raymarine.ning.com/forum/topics/rudder-angle-indicator
- Raymarine SeaTalk-SeaTalkng converter
- instrument (ST70)
- autopilot remote Raymarine A18106
- wind & close hauled/VMG instrument (Raymarine Wind ST50 Plus)
Parts (boat specific)
- Seatalkng extensions:
- Spur-Kabel mit 1 offenen Ende 3m Art.-Nr: A06044 EUR 40,-
- 5-Wege-Verbinder Art.-Nr: A06064 EUR 35,- (alternativ T-Stück Art.-Nr.: A06028 EUR 25,-)
- Backbone-Kabel 0,40m - A06033 EUR 30,-
Mini-PC
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B EUR 33,50 or Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ EUR 35,-
- 16GB MicroSD Card EUR 10,-
- PiCAN 2 EUR 45,- or PiCAN 2 incl. SMPS EUR 52,-
openPlotter
- hardware
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
- PiCAN 2
- eth0 IP set to static (192.168.1.112)
Setup Pi:
- see also
- connect to openplotter-UI (eg. VNC)
- update openCPN
- upgrade Raspbian
- upgrade to openPlotter 0.17.1
- Preferences > Raspberry Configuration > Interfaces > SSH:enable (Remote-access via WinSCP and Putty defaults pi:raspberry)
- (sudo apt-get install tightvncserver (make RDP working))
- sudo apt-get install can-utils
- sudo apt-get install mc
- update node
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt install nodejs
- update signalk to latest
- kill running signalk-server process
cd /home/pi/.config rm -rf signalk-server-node_tmp git clone https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server-node.git signalk-server-node_tmp cd signalk-server-node_tmp npm install && npm run prepublishOnly npm install mdns cd /home/pi/.config rm -rf signalk-server-node mv signalk-server-node_tmp signalk-server-node
- restart signalk @ openplotter-UI
Setup Android:
- RDC from playStore (working)
- aRDP free from playStore (suits my needs best)
Setup piCAN2:
- see also
- (in case you want to play with virtual-can-interfaces) add to /etc/modules
vcan
- add to /boot/config.txt
dtparam=spi=on dtoverlay=mcp2515-can0,oscillator=16000000,interrupt=25 dtoverlay=spi-bcm2835-overlay
- add to /etc/network/interfaces (might be overwritten by /home/pi/.config/openplotter/wifi_server.py!)
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
- add to /etc/network/interfaces/interfaces.d/can0
#physical can interfaces allow-hotplug can0 iface can0 can static bitrate 250000 down /sbin/ip link set $IFACE down up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE txqueuelen 10000
- (in case you want to play with virtual-can-interfaces) add to /etc/network/interfaces/interfaces.d/vcan0
#virtual can interfaces auto vcan0 iface vcan0 inet manual pre-up /sbin/ip link add dev $IFACE type vcan up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE up
- restart interfaces
service networking restart
- check interfaces (can0 and vcan0)
ifconfig
- install canboat
mkdir ~/canboat cd ~/canboat sudo apt-get install xsltproc git clone git://github.com/canboat/canboat cd canboat sudo make sudo make install
- add data-providers @ signalk web-interface
- NMEA2000 > canbus (canboat) (working)
- NMEA2000 > canbus (canboatjs) (not working https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server-node/issues/489)
- working admin-ui generated canboat sample
{ "id": "canboat", "pipeElements": [ { "type": "providers/simple", "options": { "logging": false, "type": "NMEA2000", "subOptions": { "type": "canbus", "interface": "vcan0" } } } ], "enabled": false }
- not working admin-ui generated canboatjs sample
{ "id": "canboatjs", "pipeElements": [ { "type": "providers/simple", "options": { "logging": false, "type": "NMEA2000", "subOptions": { "type": "canbus-canboatjs", "interface": "vcan0" } } } ], "enabled": true }
- working canboatjs sample
{ "id": "canbus-canboatjs", "enabled": true, "pipeElements": [ { "type": "providers/canbus", "options": { "canDevice": "vcan0" } }, { "type": "providers/canboatjs" }, { "type": "providers/n2k-signalk" } ] }
- old working canboat sample
{ "id": "n2k-vcan0", "pipeElements": [ { "type": "providers/execute", "options": { "command": "candump vcan0 | candump2analyzer " } }, { "type": "providers/liner", "options": { "rawlogging": true, "logdir": "logs", "discriminator": "2" } }, { "type": "providers/n2kAnalyzer" }, { "type": "providers/n2k-signalk" } ] }
configure kplex and signalk
- 'Signal K Server Plugin Configuration' > activate 'Convert Signal K to NMEA0183'
- select sentences you are interested in
- NMEA0183 (this is kplex) > Advanced >
- add input channel tcp:localhost:10110
- remove filter at opencpn out channel
[tcp] name=signalk_in direction=in address=localhost port=10110 [tcp] name=opencpn direction=out mode=server port=10109
experimental
- https://github.com/chacal/signalk-socketcan-device
- add to add to /home/pi/.openplotter/openplotter-settings.json
{"pipeElements": [ {"type": "providers/execute", "options": {"command": "candump can0 | candump2analyzer | analyzer -json -si -nv"}}, {"type": "providers/liner"}, {"type": "providers/from_json"}, {"type": "signalk-socketcan-device", "options": {"n2kAddress": 110, "canDevice": "can0"}}, {"type": "providers/n2k-signalk"} ],"id": "n2k-can0" }
blackBox
- hardware
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
- PiCAN 2 incl. SMPS
- eth0 IP set to static (here 192.168.3.111)
setup Raspbian Stretch Lite
- download Raspbian Stretch Lite and copy image to SD-card (Etcher or win32diskimager)
- log in (hdmi) as pi:raspberry (us-keboard-layout!)
- start sudo raspi-config
- enable ssh
- resize SD-card
- set wifi locale
- ...
- reboot
- connect via ssh or scp
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install mc
- enable root login over SSH
- add to /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitRootLogin yes
- restart service
sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
- set root password
sudo passwd root
- add to /etc/ssh/sshd_config
- set up static IP at /etc/dhcpcd.conf
interface eth0 static ip_address=192.168.3.111/24 static routers=192.168.3.1 static domain_name_servers=192.168.1.1
setup piCAN2 (as root)
- see also:
- install can-utils
apt-get update apt-get install can-utils
- add to /boot/config.txt
dtparam=spi=on dtoverlay=mcp2515-can0,oscillator=16000000,interrupt=25 dtoverlay=spi-bcm2835-overlay
- add to /etc/modules
vcan
- add to /etc/network/interfaces
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
- add to /etc/network/interfaces/interfaces.d/can0
#physical can interfaces allow-hotplug can0 iface can0 can static bitrate 250000 down /sbin/ip link set $IFACE down up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE txqueuelen 10000
- add to /etc/network/interfaces/interfaces.d/vcan0
#virtual can interfaces auto vcan0 iface vcan0 inet manual pre-up /sbin/ip link add dev $IFACE type vcan up /sbin/ifconfig $IFACE up
- install canboat
apt-get install xsltproc apt-get install git mkdir ~/canboat cd ~/canboat git clone git://github.com/canboat/canboat cd canboat make make install
install signalK (as root)
apt-get update apt-get install -y curl git build-essential dialog curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash - apt-get install nodejs apt-get install libnss-mdns avahi-utils libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev npm install -g --unsafe-perm signalk-server
setup signalK (as pi)
sudo signalk-server-setup reboot
- in your browser, start signalk-web-interface (eg. http://192.168.3.111:3000)
- add admin-user via admin-ui and log-in (here admin:A****M**)
- add canboat Data-Provider via Admin-UI (stored in home/pi/.signalk/settings.json )
{ "id": "canboat", "pipeElements": [ { "type": "providers/simple", "options": { "logging": false, "type": "NMEA2000", "subOptions": { "type": "canbus", "interface": "vcan0" } } } ], "enabled": true }
- alternative add canboatjs Data-Provider via Admin-UI (stored in home/pi/.signalk/settings.json )
{ "id": "canboatjs", "pipeElements": [ { "type": "providers/simple", "options": { "logging": false, "type": "NMEA2000", "subOptions": { "type": "canbus-canboatjs", "interface": "vcan0" } } } ], "enabled": true }
connect to signalk
- json: http://192.168.2.1:3000/signalk/v1/api/vessels/self/
- web-ui: http://192.168.2.1:3000/@signalk/server-admin-ui/#/dashboard
- tcp nmea0183: 192.168.2.1:10110
- tcp ais: 192.168.2.1:183
signalk sandbox
signalk-server --sample-nmea0183-data sudo systemctl stop signalk.service sudo systemctl stop signalk.socket sudo systemctl start signalk.service sudo systemctl start signalk.socket sudo systemctl disable signalk.service sudo systemctl disable signalk.socket sudo systemctl status signalk* export DEBUG=signalk-server:udp-provider export DEBUG=signalk-parser-nmea0183 ./signalk-server
aisdispatcher
- see also
- add data-provider via admin-ui
{ "id": "AIS-udp", "pipeElements": [ { "type": "providers/simple", "options": { "logging": false, "type": "NMEA0183", "subOptions": { "type": "udp", "port": "77777" } } } ], "enabled": true }
raymarine autopilot
- see also
samba
wifi client and access-point
- wlan0 build-in wifi adapter (as access point)
- b8:27:eb:3c:8c:ef
- 192.168.2.1/24 (static)
- metric 300
- see etc/dhcpd.conf
- wlan1 usb wifi adapter (as client)
- 00:0f:c9:0a:df:87
- 192.168.1.x (dhcp)
- metric 100
- see etc/dhcpd.conf and etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
- DNS problems? see etc/resolv.conf.head
- eth0 (wired to 3G router)
- b8:27:eb:69:d9:ba
- 192.168.3.111/24 (static)
- metric 200
- see etc/dhcpd.conf
- setup:
wifi client and access-point (experimental)
- see also
- issues
tile server /w cahe+proxy
- https://github.com/yetzt/tilethief
- https://github.com/yetzt/tileblaster
- see also:
- https://github.com/expressjs/express (web framework)
- https://github.com/yetzt/node-lru-files (file cache)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx (reverse üroxy)
global install tilethief
$ sudo npm install -g tilethief
cd /usr/lib/node_modules/tilethief
- edit tilethief.js
- change line 302 and 319
mime.getType
(instead ofmime.lookup
) - you might want to add some helper output:
- ln 300
if (commander.verbose) logger.info("serving %s from cache", _tile_file);
- ln 306
if (commander.verbose) logger.info("attempting to fetch %s", _tile_url);
- ln 312
if (commander.verbose) logger.info("fetched %s", _tile_url);
- ln 300
- change line 302 and 319
mkdir data
andchmod 777 data
- edit config.js
module.exports = { /* express settings */ "app": { "workers": 2, // number of worker processes "proxied": true, // trust x-forwarded-for header "env": "production", "socket": false, // socket overrides hostname and port "port": 46000 }, /* lru tile cache */ "cache": { "dir": "./data", "files": 200000, "size": "2 GB", "age": "52 Weeks", "check": "1 Hour" }, /* send heartbeats with nsa */ // "heartbeat": "udp4://127.0.0.1:65432", /* load backends from url */ "backend-url": false, // point this to a json with the contents of config.backends /* the tile backends */ "backends": { "osm": { "url": "https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png", "filetypes": ["png"], "sub": ["a","b"], "zoom": [0,17], "boundaries": [-180, -90, 180, 90] // west, south, east, north }, "openSeaMap": { "url": "http://t1.openseamap.org/seamark/{z}/{x}/{y}.png", "filetypes": ["png"], "sub": ["a","b"], "zoom": [0,17], "boundaries": [-180, -90, 180, 90] // west, south, east, north } }, /* max number of concurrent connections to backend servers */ "connections": 23, /* the default tile */ "default-image": "assets/default-tile.png", /* allowed extensions */ "allowed-extensions": ["png","jpg"], /* redirect users to this url when they try to access the index page */ "redirect-url": false };
- run
tilethief -v
- point your web browser to
192.168.2.1:46000/osm/1/1/1.png
192.168.2.1:46000/openSeaMap/14/8448/5366.png
alternative: global install tileblaster
nginx
sudo apt install nginx
cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
- edit
default
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
tileblaster
sudo npm i tileblaster -g --no-optional
cd /usr/lib/node_modules/tileblaster
- edit
config.js
module.exports = { // path to socket file "socket": "/tmp/tileblaster.sock", // path to tile directory "tiles": "/tmp/tileblaster", // nsa heartbeat server, if so desired // "heartbeat": "udp4://nsa.example.com:30826", // clean up every so often m=minute h=hour d=day w=week "cleanup": "15m", // maps "maps": { // map id, accessible via //server/mapid/z/x/y.ext "osm": { // backend url: // * {s} subdomains specified in sub // * {z}, {x}, {y} tile coordinates // * {e} extension // * {r} resolution marker // "url": "https://{s}.tiles.example.com/tiles/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.{e}", "url": "https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.{e}", // possible extensions // "ext": ["mvt","json","topojson","png","jpg"], "ext": ["png"], // valid zoom levels "zoom": [0,16], // valid subdomains "sub": ["a","b"], // bounding box, west, south, east, north "bbox": [-180,-90,180,90], // valid mimetypes from backend server "mime": ["application/vnd.mapbox-vector-tile","application/x-protobuf","application/json","image/png"], // valid resolution markers "res": ["@2x","@4x"], // optimize tiles // * .png with `optipng` // * .jpg with `mozjpeg` // "optimize": true, "optimize": false, // minimum time tiles are kept "expires": "52w", }, // more backends here }, };
- run
DEBUG=tileblaster node /usr/lib/node_modules/tileblaster/bin/tileblaster.js
preload cache /w mobac tilestore
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/mobac/
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/mobac/files/Misc/TileStore%20Utility/
- example:
java -jar ts-util.jar extract "C:\mobac\tilestore\db-vaarkaart" "C:\mobac\tilestore\vaarkaart"
setup signalk's charts plugin
- https://github.com/SignalK/charts-plugin
- add online charts provider
toDo: make tilethief a signalK plugin
- aim:
- install via appstore
- activate via web-ui
- configure via web-ui
- use signalK's logging facility
- https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-server-node/blob/master/SERVERPLUGINS.md
- start by copying another example that provides an http ui, like charts plugin
- ...
autologin to public hotspot
3G router
- 192.168.3.1
- admin:; A****M**
- 3GUSB AldiTalk
- User Name: eplus
- Password: Internet
- Dial Number: *99#
- Authentication Protocol : CHAP only
- APN: internet.eplus.de
- Reconnect Mode: manual
- MTU: 1492
apps
data sources
applications
devices
wind
- https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/123114/how-to-sense-wind-direction-low-cost-low-power
- https://homofaciens.de/technics-base-circuits-encoder-disc_ge.htm
- https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1712264
mechanical
- https://www.segeln-forum.de/board1-rund-ums-segeln/board35-bootstechnik-und-elektronik/67401-windsensor-diy 0.3-6deg
- http://www.peetbros.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=137 1.4deg EUR 115,-
- Ventus W132 360/16=22.5deg EUR 25,-
ultrasonic
- http://www.dl1glh.de/ultrasonic-anemometer.html
- https://soldernerd.com/category/arduino-ultrasonic-anemometer/
- https://hackaday.com/2013/08/21/ultrasonic-anemometer-for-an-absurdly-accurate-weather-station/
- https://www.netatmo.com/de-DE/product/weather/weatherstation/accessories#windgauge 5deg EUR 100,-
- https://calypsoinstruments.com/shop EUR 500,-
gyro + accelerometer + compass
- https://sailoog.gitbooks.io/openplotter-documentation/en/imu-sensor.html
- https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-imu
- http://navspark.mybigcommerce.com/ns-hp-gl-gps-glonass-rtk-receiver/