Pypilot successes and failures

[Jammer]

I am thinking of experimenting with pypilot for my next boat and am trying to gauge the number of successful installations. If you have used, or tried to use, pypilot, please consider voting in the poll and add your comments to the thread on how your project worked out.

[thomm225]

Originally Posted by Jammer

I am thinking of experimenting with pypilot for my next boat and am trying to gauge the number of successful installations. If you have used, or tried to use, pypilot, please consider voting in the poll and add your comments to the thread on how your project worked out.

Also you might want to contact Sean D'E directly if you do go ahead with the Pypilot. He's a member here on CF using his real name.

I know I will need something other than my Raymarine ST2000 or Simrad if I decide to sail over night in the ocean and expect to get any sleep at all.

Now the Raymarine gets lost from time to time.....

Emily G discusses the Pypilot on her site in the link below but she would really like a wind vane autopilot.

Dinghy Dreams – Road to the Sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQuBwLSMSxI

[kayakerChuck]

A couple months ago I bought a TinyPilot & motor controller from Sean to replace my ancient TP5000. It was easy to connect and install everything.

My first time out, I was frustrated by trying to set the gains somewhat appropriately. I was not smart enough to print the cheat sheet, so mostly I blame me... When in doubt, read the instructions...

After a bit of reading and a bit of playing with settings, I'm very happy with it. One of the reasons I went with the pypilot is so that I CAN play with the settings in different conditions, a bit of learning was expected.

It's easier to play with the settings from a Windows device (maybe Mac, too?) than an Android. All the settings are there, but it's easier for me to use a keyboard and actually input numbers than to use sliders on a small touch screen, especially on a boat.

I STILL need to print the cheat sheet for gains, at the link:
https://pypilot.org/wiki/doku.php?id=tuning_gains