Weather Routing

[rgleason]

Originally Posted by Jef & Marin, Netherlands

On my new navigation laptop the crashes don't happen.
Difference between the two laptops is mainly that the navigation PC (which does not have crashes) has a GeForce MX250 GPU and the laptop where it crashes has an embedded Intel GPU.
I read somewhere that the Microsoft drivers for the internal Intel GPU can give problemens with openGL because Microsoft favours other solutions above openGL. Maybe it has something to do with this.

Thanks for the polar.
Bdbcat has programmed in Opencpn a kind of opengl checker which disables certain opengl features when a certain chipset is found (I believe this is how he does it) however there are many chipsets and opengl features. I believe the earlier Intel integrated graphics cards had some isssues I have an Intel HD Graphics 3000 card, in my laptop, but also have an Nvidia Geforce adapter. These are quite old now. The HD3000 had some issues, but turning off things like texture mapping,etc helped. I do use the Nvidia more for Opencpn.


There is an opengl program called GLviewer which checks your graphics card for features supported for windows.

[crockell]

Originally Posted by crockell

Hi cagney,


I installed the plugin from your .deb but O disappeared from my screen within moments. Choosing to start O without any plugins resolved it straight away, as did removing the .deb package.
I am running version 5.1.428 of O so may not be compatible with your version of the plugin?
In case it helps the last few messages in my log are;
09:55:18.655 MESSAGE navutil.cpp:1614 Done loading navobjects, 0 duplicate waypoints ignored
09:55:18.756 MESSAGE datastream.cpp:135 makeDataStream TCP:192.168.20.201:11123
09:55:18.756 MESSAGE datastream.cpp:213 ConnectionParams CTOR
09:55:18.756 MESSAGE NetworkDataStream.cpp:181 Opening TCP Server 0

regards,

Chris

Hi again,


I am looking for a bit of clarity about how this should work as the new plugin management feature matures. Should I be installing the weather routing plugin .deb file as cagney suggests? ...or should I be waiting for weather routing to show up when I refresh the plugin catalog? The second option seems to me to be more in line with the design goal but right now I will take anything.



Does anybody have any visibility of when we should expect to see weather routing become usable in this release of O?


Chris

[fiacca]

Good day all, I am running Open CPN 5 and, when I try to install plugin I get following error message:
Can't initialize plugins directory. Please try again later

Any idea how to solve?

thanks Piero

[crockell]

Originally Posted by crockell

Hi again,


I am looking for a bit of clarity about how this should work as the new plugin management feature matures. Should I be installing the weather routing plugin .deb file as cagney suggests? ...or should I be waiting for weather routing to show up when I refresh the plugin catalog? The second option seems to me to be more in line with the design goal but right now I will take anything.



Does anybody have any visibility of when we should expect to see weather routing become usable in this release of O?


Chris

Got my answer!


I have used the plugin catalog to download and install the latest version.
Install worked like a charm. Starting to try out Weather Routing today.
Thanks again for all your effort!


Chris

[rgleason]

Good to hear that. It is still beta both the plugin and the Plugin Manager.
What OS are you using?

Originally Posted by crockell

Got my answer!

I have used the plugin catalog to download and install the latest version.
Install worked like a charm. Starting to try out Weather Routing today.
Thanks again for all your effort!


Chris

[crockell]

I am using Ubuntu 20.04.
FWIW it looks good so far but a little limited because we are still waiting for Climatology to be available via Plugin Manager? I am getting a few "No Data" failures and I expect that will be the reason...


Chris

Originally Posted by rgleason

Good to hear that. It is still beta both the plugin and the Plugin Manager.
What OS are you using?

[rgleason]

Originally Posted by crockell

I am using Ubuntu 20.04.
FWIW it looks good so far but a little limited because we are still waiting for Climatology to be available via Plugin Manager? I am getting a few "No Data" failures and I expect that will be the reason...
Chris

That is next on the list, but we are still sorting out other stuff.

[crockell]

Understood. No problem, just grateful you guys do what you do!
In the meantime I won't route anywhere without a GRIB.

Originally Posted by rgleason

That is next on the list, but we are still sorting out other stuff.

[crockell]

Originally Posted by crockell

Understood. No problem, just grateful you guys do what you do!
In the meantime I won't route anywhere without a GRIB.

While I'm waiting on Climatology I do have one cosmetic issue to let you know about;
The text in the Positions and Configurations panes is very big. All the label and button text seems to be correct (at least it looks right to me) but the column headings and the information in the panes is in a font that is around twice the size.
I am running on Ubuntu 20.04.
Please let me know if you need any more information?


Chris

[rgleason]

Originally Posted by crockell

While I'm waiting on Climatology I do have one cosmetic issue to let you know about;
The text in the Positions and Configurations panes is very big. All the label and button text seems to be correct (at least it looks right to me) but the column headings and the information in the panes is in a font that is around twice the size.
I am running on Ubuntu 20.04.
Please let me know if you need any more information?


Chris

Chris, can you post an example screenshot?

[hasse_A]

Hi!
I am running OpenCPN 5.0.5.18 on a windows 10 machine.
When opening weather route plugin and having it make a route it becomes very sluggish. Actually it freezes the whole OpenCPN. You can't step the grid reader time and you can't read the wind speed when moving the cursor.
The fan of the computer spins up.
Ending the weather route plugin brings back the normal speed accessibility to OpenCPN.
Weather route version = 1.13
Is this a known issue ?
/Hans

[rgleason]

While calculating a route and creating isobars more hp is needed. It should not stall out o however. Please provide more detail.

[hasse_A]

It's not when the route calculation is being done. It's afterwards when it is finished and you want to browse around and find out what the
wind speed e.t.c. will be along the route that it gets sluggish/freezes.
/Hans

[rgleason]

Hans,

I have not noticed this happening. Can you try turning off all plugins other than weather_routing, grib_pi and vdr if you are using it?

Originally Posted by hasse_A

It's not when the route calculation is being done. It's afterwards when it is finished and you want to browse around and find out what the
wind speed e.t.c. will be along the route that it gets sluggish/freezes.
/Hans

[hasse_A]

Rick,

The only plugins I now have active are : WeartherRouting, Grib and Climatology.
After the route is complete it freezes and I can not pan the chart or zoom in or out.
If I grab the WeatherRouting window and move it the OpenCPN comes alive.
I have to do this maneuver for every zoom/pan.
I will do a recording of the screen later and upload it on my dropbox for you to study.

/Hans