Exporting Track from B&G Zeus3

[COOGOR]

Hi,


I have a B&G Zeus 3 12" plotter and want to export the tracks to a tablet/PC or microSD card.

• On the plotter I have not found any option to store the tracks to SD card
• Using the B&G App (version 66.1.9 - should be the latest one) I can connect to the plotter, and it exports routes and waypoints, but no tracks (although a documentation on the B&G website says it does...)
• Using the Navionics App I can sync the charts between plotter and app, but here again, no tracks exported

Anyone an idea how to get tracks?
Thanks!

[stevead]

I can't comment on either the B&G App nor Navionics, however if using the GPX export format you can export tracks.

A snippet from an export that contains tracks.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gpx xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1" version="1.1" creator="Zeus2 W7 3420" >
    <metadata>
        <time>2023-07-21T10:08:09Z</time>
        <depthunits>meters</depthunits>
        <tempunits>C</tempunits>
        <sogunits>m/s</sogunits>
    </metadata>
    .......
    <trk>
        <name>IBIZA</name>
        <desc>FORMENTARA TO IBIZA</desc>
        <trkseg>
            <trkpt lon="1.42624009" lat="38.78021151" >
                <time>2023-07-21T08:24:15Z</time>
                <watertemp>29.82</watertemp>
                <sog>0.205778</sog>
            </trkpt>
            <trkpt lon="1.42623107" lat="38.78021854" >
                <time>2023-07-21T08:24:16Z</time>
                <watertemp>29.82</watertemp>
                <sog>0.102889</sog>
            </trkpt>
            <trkpt lon="1.42623107" lat="38.78021854" >
                <time>2023-07-21T08:24:18Z</time>
                <watertemp>29.82</watertemp>
                <sog>0.154333</sog>
            </trkpt>
            <trkpt lon="1.42623107" lat="38.78021854" >
                <time>2023-07-21T08:24:20Z</time>
                <watertemp>29.82</watertemp>
                <sog>0.205778</sog>
            </trkpt>
            ...........
         </trkseg>
    </trk>
</gpx>

Note that you do not need to transfer files via a SD card, an undocumented feature of the Zeus & Vulcan chartplotters is that you can use FTP to transfer files via a network. Refer to the following post

[COOGOR]

That was the setting I was looking for, thank you!