autopilot route plugin

[Dave Wright]

Ironman: Watched your video, and can say the the behavior you observed of the target bearing sometimes not leading in the direction of ascending waypoint order persists in PIM master version 0.4.7.0

Rgleason: Were you able to run my VDR files from the GoogleDrive..? I may be able to isolate the behavior above and provide an edited snippet of VDR data if that would help.

[ironman]

Just tested the plugin under windows and it seems to hold up well, only it crashes opencpn when the plugin is disabled (Issue #19).

Also, at the end of a route (Route Position Bearing), the boat seems to veer off, but I expect this has to do with the simulator's lack of inertia, so for the moment I refrain from making it an issue.

[ironman]

Originally Posted by ironman

Just saw it's in beta. Great stuff and thanks to anyone involved! I've made a small clip to show how I have tested the plugin in the past and will test it here as well. Stay tuned. https://youtu.be/MxJgtAuGX0E

I just reinstalled my openplotter machine and I had to revert this plugin to the Dec 5, 2021 commit in Sean's repository. The behavior as I showed a month ago in this post now also occurs in this repository, and it makes that the plugin is unusable on a boat: instead of intercepting a route, it would turn around toward the first waypoint.

For those who want to compile a usable version of the plugin on a fresh openplotter3 / 64 bit installation, the following sequence seems to yield one:

sudo apt install libwxbase3.0-dev libbz2-dev wx-common libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev gettext
git clone https://github.com/seandepagnier/autopilot_route_pi
cd autopilot_route_pi/
git checkout 098226d8c5779b491800eca8ba6e233e3ec9582c
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

[rgleason]

Marco, thankyou for https://github.com/marcobergman/ais_simulation and https://youtu.be/MxJgtAuGX0E

These are very useful!


We will get it right sometime! Very sorry.

[ironman]

No worries, I'm very much aware of the excellent work that is being done across the board and the difficulty of testing this particular plugin. This plugin is for me the cherry on the pie of both opencpn and pypilot, and with the youtube showing this plugin it all began for me. With an increasing number of pypilot installations, this plugin deserves to be out there. At this point I'd say it could do with a set of system and regression tests and I'm willing to define them and test each release, before it is released. If the simulation tool I made is too hard to use, I'm happy to use any other tool. Just let me know, I'm happy to help on this when the time is right.

[rgleason]

Marco, is this the right one to use?
https://github.com/rgleason/autopilo...6e233e3ec9582c


Are you sure it is sean's repository? It is Sean's commit however, but my repository.
Can't find any sha numbers like that on Sean's repo.

[rgleason]

Now I found it. It is also on Sean's repo


https://github.com/seandepagnier/aut...6e233e3ec9582c

[ironman]

I felt I had to elaborate on the issue I reported a few days ago - here's a movie that should make it clear why I installed that old version. Thanks for all your efforts!

https://youtu.be/06Bv5k1NFck

[rgleason]

I've tried to add some of the differences from Sean's repository at that commit.
I still have some questions about some other files in the src directory, but it does compile and load.


Next step is to get your testing program going to see if it is better.

[rgleason]

Autopilot_route_pi is updated and now available for testing in O5.7.1 is found in PIM beta catalog. Please test and advise, good? or bad? and OS. We would like to move it to master.

[ironman]

Very rewarding to see that this plugin is now in the master plugin channel of OpenCPN 5.8.0! I'd say that is the cherry on the pypilot pie.

[rgleason]

Well I ran some tests on it and it seemed to be working (with reservations) but the jury is still out.... so please advise, and keep a sharp lookout!

Originally Posted by ironman

Very rewarding to see that this plugin is now in the master plugin channel of OpenCPN 5.8.0! I'd say that is the cherry on the pypilot pie.

[bouton]

Hello!

Is it possible to use this Open CPN plugin on Android version of Open CPN too?

Thanks!

[rgleason]

Originally Posted by bouton

Hello!

Is it possible to use this Open CPN plugin on Android version of Open CPN too?

Thanks!

@bouton,


It might work but it has not been tested, and it may stress the system somewhat, but it might be worthwhile trying it, in a safe way. I would not hold too much hope out though.