I've run into an issue during the annual hardware & software update.    Expedition starts, brings stripchart up and then silently terminates.   It only does this when the Actisense NGT-1 N2K USB network interface is plugged in.   If I start Expedition and plug the NGT-1 in after everything works correctly.    I removed & re-installed the antisense driver.   I ran the Expedition repair install process.   I couldn't find any obvious errors  in any of the expedition log files.   Any suggestions on where to look for clues ?

• platform: Intel NUC 5i3RYB
• Expedition 4D 10.7.13
• Windows 10 - current on patches as of 12/30
• NGT-1 is  V2.12 firmware (current).

System changes:

• replaced boot ssd with larger (500gb M.2)
• added memory (to 16GB)
• added internal backup SSD (120GB)
• windows 10 auto patch to current
• Expedition upgrade to 10.7.13
• New expedition license key triggered by hardware changes.

 

if you are running windows 10 pro you can also do it with the group policy editor or registry settings.

http://www.windowscentral.com/how-stop-updates-installing-automatically-windows-10

Whichever way you chose you should strongly consider doing it for windows 10 systems.   Just this morning a Microsoft auto push patch cluster corrupted bitlocker's recovery keys rendering the Surfacebook I use for shoreside planning (and work stuff) unbootable.   This will require a complete wipe & reinstall to fix.   I had already disabled update for the onboard systems & left the surfacebook free range as a test.   Now I know.   If they can't even get it right on their own hardware the odds aren't good for everything else.

Today was upgrade day for the boat systems.    I let windows 10 do it's auto patching then tested Expedition to make sure it still worked and it did.  I then upgraded Expedition to 10.5.4.   On restart Expedition displayed the zero license key panel & provided a different code that it had prior to the windows patch.   After selecting OK I get an additional panel that reports "invalid license key ?" then proceeds to run unlicensed.   After I got home I noticed that 10.5.5 had been put up for download.   I installed that on the laptop & it still exhibits the same behavior.

The exact same problem occurred on both the main system & the navigator's laptop.    I've requested new keys from Farallon.  

Are there any logs or information I can collect for you prior to installing new keys ?  I have incremental backups of both systems so I can retrieve prior versions of any files if needed.

Thanks

Guy

 

I'm sure there are many ways to get this to work but since we had an iridium go I was able to use xgate to get gribs, yb tracking & tidetech currents directly from the expedition interface.  Theoretically that should be all you need.

In practice things turned out a little differently.  Our go was a finicky little piggy and the xgate link wasn't great at recovering from interrupted downloads.  YB data was small & two weeks of gribs were large.  So I ended up using the xgate interface for YB data & grib by email through Ocens as the Ocens downloader seemed much quicker to detect a problem & let you restart the download with a minimum of fuss.  

 

I used a n2k barometer from yacht devices.   Seems to be accurate. 

only issue was it was drop shipped via Russian post and took a month to show up.