Dashboard-Tactics (Dash T)

[Ranur]

Originally Posted by rgleason

Dashboard_Tactics_pi (Dash_T) is now available directly from the plugin downloads page under Downloads-Plugins- "Logs"
https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/plugins/...rdtactics.html


It includes Dashboard Instruments and Tactics Instruments, a new release. Please disable Dashboard_pi first!

trying to install via sudo apt-get install opencpn-plugin-dashboardtactics without any luck. Just get error "Packet opencpn-plugin-dashboardtactics can not be found".
What am I doing wrong?

[transmitterdan]

Originally Posted by Ranur

trying to install via sudo apt-get install opencpn-plugin-dashboardtactics without any luck. Just get error "Packet opencpn-plugin-dashboardtactics can not be found".

What am I doing wrong?

What OS and version are you using?

[spirare]

Hi,

Can't get the dashboard to display the NMEA sentences beginning with $IIxx.

I am pussel by the fact that the NMEA Debug Window has those but neither the OpenCPN Debugger or the Dashboard does.

Had the same problem with the previous version of the Dashboard.

Am I doing something wrong or its a bug I should report to OpenCPN ?

[Ranur]

Originally Posted by transmitterdan

What OS and version are you using?

I run it on a RPI 3b with Openplotter 2.0 and Open Cpn 5.0

[transmitterdan]

Originally Posted by Ranur

I run it on a RPI 3b with Openplotter 2.0 and Open Cpn 5.0

As far as I know there is no repository for Raspbian/Stretch. So you probably have to build it yourself from github sources.

[stevead]

Had to put my glasses on....

Not sure where your NMEA 183 sentences with $II prefix are derived from, but it appears as though they are missing the checksum character.

OpenCPN & the plugins most certainly work with $II prefix as the TwoCan plugin converts NMEA 2000 messages to NMEA 183 sentences with $II prefix and they are consumed by OpenCPN and the plugins correctly.

[Hakan]

Agree with stevead..
OCPN don't care about the talker, e.g. II.
The gadget with the II talker is not sending a checksum.
Unfortunately the "Use checksum" option in "Connections" has no impact when not checked. Could you persuade your II talker to use a checksum?

[spirare]

Originally Posted by stevead

Had to put my glasses on....

Not sure where your NMEA 183 sentences with $II prefix are derived from, but it appears as though they are missing the checksum character.

OpenCPN & the plugins most certainly work with $II prefix as the TwoCan plugin converts NMEA 2000 messages to NMEA 183 sentences with $II prefix and they are consumed by OpenCPN and the plugins correctly.

Yes...just figured out that checksum is missing...thank you stevead for having look at this with your glasses on

[spirare]

Originally Posted by Hakan

Agree with stevead..
OCPN don't care about the talker, e.g. II.
The gadget with the II talker is not sending a checksum.
Unfortunately the "Use checksum" option in "Connections" has no impact when not checked. Could you persuade your II talker to use a checksum?

Hakan, just ticked OFF the "Use checksum" option in "Connections" and OpenCPN 5.0 does let through these sentences...The Dashboard-Tactics is now showing the data...strange that others have reported this not working

FYI my gadget box not providing checksum is the old Autohelm NMEA Bridge connected to Raymarine ST60 instruments and Autohelm T300 course computer via Seatalk1. Hopes this info might be useful to others.

Will test shorthly if Autohelm T300 course computer NMEA output have checksum or not.

[Hakan]

Originally Posted by spirare

Hakan, just ticked OFF the "Use checksum" option in "Connections" and OpenCPN 5.0 does let through these sentences...The Dashboard-Tactics is now showing the data...strange that others have reported this not working

FYI my gadget box not providing checksum is the old Autohelm NMEA Bridge connected to Raymarine ST60 instruments and Autohelm T300 course computer via Seatalk1. Hopes this info might be useful to others.

Will test shorthly if Autohelm T300 course computer NMEA output have checksum or not.

Well, I'm one of those saying the no checksum switch wasn't working. So I must have tested on strings with other failures. Thanks for your positive report.


Some device has options for using checksum or not. You may check for that?
Thanks
Håkan

[Ranur]

Originally Posted by transmitterdan

As far as I know there is no repository for Raspbian/Stretch. So you probably have to build it yourself from github sources.

Yet

Originally Posted by rgleason

Dashboard_Tactics_pi (Dash_T) is now available directly from the plugin downloads page under Downloads-Plugins- "Logs"
https://opencpn.org/OpenCPN/plugins/...rdtactics.html

It includes Dashboard Instruments and Tactics Instruments, a new release. Please disable Dashboard_pi first!

So what am I not getting - when I try to do sudo apt-get install opencpn-plugin-dashboardtactics I get the error that it can not find the packet

[transmitterdan]

Originally Posted by Ranur

Yet



So what am I not getting - when I try to do sudo apt-get install opencpn-plugin-dashboardtactics I get the error that it can not find the packet

Not every version of Linux has a package online. There are too many versions of Linux. You have Raspbian Stretch correct? I can build a plugin package for Stretch if you like.

[transmitterdan]

Originally Posted by Ranur

Yet

So what am I not getting - when I try to do sudo apt-get install opencpn-plugin-dashboardtactics I get the error that it can not find the packet

You can try getting a debian package for Raspbian/Stretch here:

https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/dan-...51-1_armhf.deb

You should be able to install this with dpkg. Let me know if it works for you or not.

Note: This will not work on other distro such as Raspbian Buster.

[Ranur]

Originally Posted by transmitterdan

You can try getting a debian package for Raspbian/Stretch here:

https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/dan-...51-1_armhf.deb

You should be able to install this with dpkg. Let me know if it works for you or not.

Note: This will not work on other distro such as Raspbian Buster.

I don't know what happened to my previous answer, but of course I run Buster....

[transmitterdan]

Originally Posted by Ranur

I don't know what happened to my previous answer, but of course I run Buster....

Ok, I will make a Buster version.