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Hi all
I am getting on a bouat just bought. Its a Farr 52 (Chocolate 3), and I am trying to figure out the system during the delivery to her new home. I figured this is as good place as any to look for answers...
The boat originally had an Ockam system with the Unisys brain, mast displays and magnum displays. Apart from the magnums, its suprisingly works. She was partially upgraded with an N2k system consisting of a Raymarine Axiom chartplotter, a Raymarine autopilot with its brain and controller, and a Digital Yacht AIS. It also runs an acient computer with an even more acient Expedition, and I stuck a Starlink on for network and netflix during transit.
So here is what I am trying to figure out:
The link between old and new is the ProAIS, which has USB feed into the PC and N2K connection. So far I only managed to have it send AIS and GPS over USB. Can it be used as an N2k gateway?
The Ockam is connected to the PC thru an ATEM serial to usb converter. For the last 2 hours I was pulling my hair as after a restart, the ATEM (I suppose) decided to treat the Ockam serial feed as a mouse input, and made it impossible to use the controller. I unplugged, replugged, restarted, disabled what I could, to no help. 10 minutes ago, that stopped after a restart of the Ockam, and I have no idea why. Anybody seen this behaviour?
most importantly, I am trying to have the old PC stream data over to my laptop. I have set up the ockam instrument to redirect to UDP, on port 6000. That worked, at least I have seen the incoming data in the Raw Data window on my laptop. And then I set the AIS/GPS feed to redirect over 5000. That is working, but since that, the Ockam feed is not. And even thoug I can see the incoming Raw Data feed, i dont have it in the number boxes.
I seem to remember a simpler solution to move data between, but cannot find it.
any help appreciated
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I can only help you with the mouse problem, I think. I use this little program to prevent the pc from treating a com port as a mouse
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There is a note in the Exp help about NMEA appearing as a mouse, but I haven't heard of that for many years.