ImpulseIII
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Now there is a vision I can live without.
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I understand the open source thing loud and clear. In my whole life of boating and 6 years of specifically selling marine electronics I have never seen an open source nmea0183 gadget that somebody has brought to the market. So you are really arguing about something that may be encountered by somebody somewhere, but in general doesn't exist.
It didn't rain this weekend.Don't distract Frank C from his iPhone assignment with this NMEA2000 stuff.
I also think Frank W. is just jealous because he knows I'll put an NMEA 2000 display in my master head and I can get rid of the cheap-o holding tank LED monitor and then I can, not only see the holding tank level, but see engine data while I'm taking a poop. Don't get any better than that!
I think that iPhone thread was deleted....
Since Brunswick got rid of Northstar they no longer have a system that will read their smartcraft data, so industry folks are expecting them to release their code so it can be integrated. Who knows.....
We are working with many software developers using our NGT-1 product, soon to be a TPG (Third Party Gateway) as soon as the NMEA sort out the spec requirements. This will allow developers to pay only $500 for the part of the spec they need and NMEA 2000 certification will be covered by the gateway product too. This will give rise to many more small operations releasing affordable N2K software.There will be no NMEA corn flow meter due to the $5K entry fee....
Blue Heron are selling the NGT-1 for $199.95, the NGW-1 for $147.95 and the USB100 for $344.45.What sucks is the lack of a reasonably priced bridges
We are shipping the NGW-1 (NMEA 0183 / NMEA 2000 converter) now, the current conversion list pdf is a link on the right of this page.The Actisense (NGW-1) NMEA 2000 Gateway will supposedly be shipping soon.
We have just sorted out our MAC drivers for all our USB products. We are working with MACEnc to get NMEA 2000 MAC software up and running.Someone NEEDS to come out with a Mac based product... and it won't be a big company...
NMEA 0183 is based on RS422 and NMEA 2000 is based on CANbus. Both foundations are readily available. The data in each protocol requires you to purchase the spec from the NMEA, and both contain proprietary sentences. I can't see the difference you are referring too?NMEA 0183 is an open protocol, like TCP/IP and NMEA 2000 is a closed, proprietary protocol like Arcnet. Which one do you really want?
The NMEA are a not for profit organisation, without the spec being paid for there would be no spec. Then you would only have proprietary protocols because no companies will collaborate with each other and the closed shop will be unavoidable. Even with the NMEA many companies still try to keep closed shop status.Maybe the genius should get a copy of the NMEA 2000 protocol and post it on the Internet
It is a rumour.Rumor has it that NMEA 2.5K due out in March of 2011