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I am sure I have missed something basic (or worse...really dumb) but I have hit a road block... if you have a check list for dumb things to check when connecting to B&G... would appreciate it... So the set up consists of a new H5000 Hercules, with the latest downloaded software. I connected to the Ethernet port on the CPU and using the B&G web browser, I am able to read, download and calibrate the B&G parameters on the laptop, through Microsoft edge and also Mac Safari so all is good (note to some... the B&G Ethernet port is NOT a gigabit connection... took be two days to figure this out... so make sure your port is set to 10 or 100 MBS...) The issue I am having is getting expedition to "use" the B&G data... what is odd, is that through the RAW data tab, I can view and record the B&G sentences. the sentences line up to the nodes and functions that I have in the config file. when I change the config file, I can see that the sentence requests have changed.... Now do you think I can get expedition to pull in this data!! not a chance!! So what could I be missing here? I have tried both the Hlink and TCP settings, no difference... both import data to "Raw" but when I switch to display mode... nothing... no position, no content in the data boxes... nothing... thoughts? suggestions?? As a side note, I have been running Expedition, on a MacBook pro, with Parallels and Windows 10... the mirroring function on the Macs make the replication of the laptop display to ipads almost effortless... works great...
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You can't use the Ethernet connection to talk to the H5.
What do the sentences look like? That might be Exp sending requests.
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Here is a small sampling:
#OV,,001,132,1*0A
#OV,,001,135,1*0D
#OV,,001,141,1*0E
#OV,,001,155,1*0B
So you are thinking this is the expedition program requesting data?
dave
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Yes. Exp can not receive data from the Ethernet port, so just keeps requesting it.
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If you have a Zeus 2 plotter in your setup you can use it to relay all the h5000 cpu data via Ethernet (it's how I get ais data out of the system without using another serial port) otherwise it's serial comms directly to cpu as Nick has said
Paul