Bridge PC - A 5 year look and a new upgrade

But other than the initial setup of the black boxes, what is the helm PC for? Couldn't you just have the aaxeon thingy feed the data to your network?
 
Turtlesboat said:
But other than the initial setup of the black boxes, what is the helm PC for? Couldn't you just have the aaxeon thingy feed the data to your network?
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Yes. The white board the PC is mounted to contains power supplies, DC-DC regulators, MUX combiners, WxWorx reciever and other crap for the Airmar weather station, AIS, etc... The PC and touchscreen is just kind of cool... but all the other stuff behind the "Network" Contura switch on the helm is where the magic happens. Remember you can't just wire nut the data cables together like seatalk. You have to assemble them via a MUX so going in one side are the black boxes all yaking at the same time and coming out the other side is a sequential data stream the Aaxeon server can send out to the Ethernet side...

The devil is in the details...
 
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And I'm thinking of trying out MaxSea on the PC... Basically what the new Furono's run (go to the 2:00 mark);

[video=youtube;pxi-SFiUCRc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=FR&hl=fr&v=pxi-SFiUCRc[/video]
 
looks like they licensed google earth and incorporated it. You can do that on the ipad.
 
I haven't messed around with it enough, but I don't think any app on the iPad can drive the autopilot.

I don't know where they got their data... but it's all stored local on the PC and not downloaded over the Internet/cell coverage. I know the iPad can download and store regions (at least the Navionics app can).
 
Yeah.. I grabbed my iPad and saw some of that. I have not messed with it... but again... you have to have a MUX... and the iMux is a limited version of the Brookhouse one I have and I don't want some Mux running my wifi... and you need all the power stuff and the MUX and the AIS (esp the GPS antenna) really should be on a DC-DC regulator and the configuration of Brookhouse stuff is done via a USB hooked into a PC... they skipped all that part...

And their wiring job on their install board looked like sh!t. Looked like that silverware drawer.

My wifi network has to be secure... I run WPA2 and I have a VPN into my business... I can't risk some crappy implementation of wifi on a MUX.
 
Ya know.. I bet I could steer the boat from my house via the autopilot...
 
Yeah, I don't know enough about imux or brookhouse etc... just asking really. Not shooting down the whole touch screen PC thing. I can't install a PC on my boat, so I'm trying to take all of your hard work and research and do it on my ipad. I want to tie into my NMEA network wireless first, then I can work my way up to driving the boat while lounging on the bow pad.
 
Understand....

the other thing I'm not sure about but I think if the iPad is hooked to a Wifi network, it doesn't use the cell network... Is that right? That's the way my verizon iPhone is... If that's the case, once you connect the iPad to the iMux, your Internet isn't going to work on the iPad and the iMux will have taken over the network connection...

Kind of beats the whole purpose of the iPad at that point.
 
mistercomputerman said:
The iPad2 can do WiFi up to WPA2. Plus Bluetooth. You can borrow mine for a couple of days if you need it.
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I realize that... but it ain't going to do WPA2 if the iMux hotspot doesn't support it... but the iMux sucks up the wifi connection and is not using it for "Internet" so I guess it doesn't matter.
 
I just saw that MacENC now support Navionics Gold charts...

Now I'm wondering why I'm putting a PC on the bridge myself... Could put a Mac.
 
Ok Ok enough enough I said!!!!!!!!!!! All you guys have so much crap on your boats, do you have any time to enjoy the sun and waves?? Damn I find that I don't have time to fool with anything, while I'm watching for traffic, waves and well my Smokin Hot wife, oh Crap forgot to thank God for my smokin Hot wife too....Thanks God....
Ok So why all the computer Crap Gary, I know I have SR Navigator, and I'm still thinking it's way too much computer for the boat, but you have your business networked to your boat, I thought y ou drove Tow Truck for a living???? hahahah just kidding Should I just throw out the SR Navigator...????
 
Correct, when you connect to the wifi network, 3G is disabled. BUT, I'm not sure I really care, or maybe i do. I have to look into the whole imux thing.
 
Man... I would care if Internet doesn't work on my iPad while I'm running a charting package on it. What the hell am I supposed to do on the bridge if I can't surf the Internet all day?
 
hmmm, the guy who made that video seems to think otherwise

05-08-11 09:18 AM - Post#6414

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Also, using iMux with an iPad isolates the iPad from internet completely since it can't use both wifi and 3G at the same time (contrary to my reasoning above).



Not true. I use an iMux (AdHoc network) and still receive email, browse web, etc using a 3G connection. Also iNavX lets me decide if I want to use GPS from the iPad/iPhone ("Location Services") or from the NMEA from the iMux.

Screen shots? There is an iMux setup section in the iNavX help ..

http://www.gpsnavx.com/iNavX/help/imux.htm
 
Turtlesboat said:
Also, using iMux with an iPad isolates the iPad from internet completely since it can't use both wifi and 3G at the same time (contrary to my reasoning above).



Not true. I use an iMux (AdHoc network) and still receive email, browse web, etc using a 3G connection. Also iNavX lets me decide if I want to use GPS from the iPad/iPhone ("Location Services") or from the NMEA from the iMux.

Screen shots? There is an iMux setup section in the iNavX help ..

http://www.gpsnavx.com/iNavX/help/imux.htm
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I don't get this... The iNavX link doesn't show that...
 
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