These are very economical and range in price from $100-$300. At $99-$159 these may work well for smaller boat installations where you may only be connecting a single NMEA 0183 devices to the serial port.īelow is a list of serial to WiFi adapters that could be used to broadcast your serial NMEA 0183 data over WiFi. These can be powered by battery or hardwired into your 12 volt system using pins 5 and 9 of the serial port. The cheaper of these options are a couple of tiny devices called the WiSnap and WiFly serial to WiFi adapters. It can be found for about $270 on various sites. The Digi Wi-SP is a popular model and will efficiently broadcast your instruments NMEA 0183 serial data over WiFi to your iPad, iPhone or Android device. This setup omits the need for a computer making the data readily available to any mobile device. The next evolutionary step was the development of multiplexers that combined serial NMEA data from yacht instruments and made it available to any WiFi capable device. An-ad hoc network can also be easily set up with the laptop to share the data with mobile devices. ![]() Data can then be shared with multiple PC charting programs or with wireless devices through TCP/IP. There are several PC programs such as NavMon PC, Polar Navy and GPS Gate that can create virtual serial ports. This brought about the development and use of multiplexers to connect instrument and GPS data to a laptop. If you still have some older NMEA 0183 instruments or transducers on our yacht, this is still a great way to connect these devices. ![]() In the last 10 years, PC based charting programs became very popular and required access to this instrument data. Sailors first started incorporating laptop computers with their onboard navigation systems. So, what is the best way to get access to all the data on your yacht. These may include a laptop computers, iPhone, iPad or even Android devices. The smart phone and tablet revolution has created a whole new industry around sharing all of this data with charting, AIS and data apps for mobile devices on your yacht. These may include wind speed and direction, depth, boat speed, course, heading, AIS, radar and a variety of navigation and weather data. Most yachts today are outfitted with a whole series of marine instruments. Multiplexers and WiFi are making it easier than ever to make data available to anyone on your yacht, anytime and anywhere. I normally review marine apps but the hardware that provides the data to these apps is worth taking some time to talk about. The last few years we have seen the invention of mobile devices, tablets and apps that are revolutionizing the way we share and display marine data. To the best of our knowledge, the following third-party software applications support the NGT-1 with firmware version 2.690 installed.The world of marine electronics is changing faster than most of us bloggers can write about it. Therefore, we recommend that you contact your software developer directly to ask them if they support the NGT-1. ![]() This makes keeping an accurate and up to date compatibility list a very difficult task. The Software Development Kit (SDK) that developers use to make the NGT-1 compatible with their software has been issued to over 200 developers.
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