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So cool video-series. I have a boat whit two old ad41b. I wold love to have engine data in digital chape. And fuel consumption. But I heard it's difficult whit diesel. Thanks for sharing. And yes I start following you 👍

Why not use an LTE hat on the rasberry pi? It would reduce your points of failure and give you more granular control over the network configuration

Since you talked about engine sensors and gauges. The boat you will eventually get will very likely have sensors and engine control panels already installed. If you want that data somewhere else you will need dedicated sensors for that on the engine side. You cant piggyback of the existing ones or your data will be off. Analog to Digital conversion can be done in software or with a dedicated Analog to Digital card. Both instances will need calibrating. Temps and pressures are best done by comparing values with gauges you screw into the engine block and in the cooling system. The old fashioned ones with a needle. Whats more importantt than extreme precision is to get good baseline values for all measurements and to plot those together with the actual values. Pro Tip : get a pressure sensor and install it right after the seawater intake pump. On the pressure side. It will warn you of about a lack of cooling well before the engine overheats.

If I were you. Id pivot from the Rpi and use an x86 board that has gpio. Like the Latte Panda for instance. Which also already has a fan is going to solve many of the issues your are facing and will continue to face with the rpi. Like CPU performance, overheating, storage issues, etc.

Not sure how I came across this video (probably doesn't help that I'm friends with @DeadlyDragon_) but as a fellow Floridian who does IT for a living, I love this project. I've always had fun with OpenCPN and a cellular modem when on friends boats. Also, I'm jealous of your test board with all the NEMA connections and all the labeling. Keeps making me want a boat...

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Very beautiful view😮

Agin just use Honme assistant as the core to control and monitor all the systems. Reinventing the wheel but doing it worse . Most other open sourced tools you need can be integrated easily enough.

Very cool. Congrats. Sometimes playing with boat stuff is more fun than boating

I do a lot of network installations on island homes where there is a lot of sea blast, so similar environment to a boat. If you can get away with not bringing outside air into your enclosures for cooling, it would be better to run things a bit hotter that bringing that salty air into your enclosure. I have a lot of PoE network switches in sealed enclosures, and they run pretty hot because of the lack of external cooling, but I have found that actually is still better than bringing in external air. Even though you are exhausting air, it will still be sucking in air from somewhere. If you do need some active cooling of the enclosure, it might be better to move air around the inside of enclosure and move some of the air past a heatsink that is coupled to the outside, but doesn't let any air in.

everything wireless would be so much easier...

I don’t think the whaler needs this lol😮

Wat was the results with a load in the boat. Did the 40hp make much of an improvement?

I’m currently sailing with open cpn on a Pi 5, and Navionics that costs me $80/yr for my phone or tablet hotspots to my phone, my tablet is lte it uses the gps chip download the charts when you have internet offshore use saved maps and gps only no other connection

$24K on screens and they die regularly many yacht owners complain about this.

Great video, love the board, I used to do this at work, I am an industrial electrician, I used to build panels with AC drives PLC’s and computers controlling industrial manufacturing machines, same process as yours then move to an enclosure when fully functional Looks like we are on the same wave length with our projects I now monitor pi cpu temp to determine box cooling keep up the great videos I’m learning from you 😂

You should take a look at youtube.com/@smartboatinnovations?si=NItVAvL2jcM_i39z he is connecting home assistant to the NMEA network and doing some cool things. If I remember correctly he had it set up so it would turn on lights and even the horn. It has also set up an integration for an anchor alarm. I have seen a better on in Zora from inav4u which also calculates the scope for you. But this will send alarm signals to you and your phone. I am a bit of a home assistant junkie so I thought this was really cool.

You may want to run your box cooling fans on a relay using a bme280 (temp, press, humidity) and node red software to minimize power consumption. Since the bme280 is i2c, you could also monitor the box temp in KIP.

This is a really cool project! Excited to see where you take it. As someone else pointed out, the SD card on your pi is the single most likely thing to fail. I would strongly recommend you use an SSD instead of an SD card if you can help it. If you must use an SD card, invest in a "high endurance" card. Several brands make them - most will be branded as "high endurance", "industrial", or "edge". Still, an SSD is definitely the way to go IMO. Edit: I believe the pi 5 has a dedicated PCIE interface, that you can use to directly attach a PCIE (NVME) SSD. If this were my project, I would do exactly this.

Are you doing fuzz testing?

Running VNC probably also consumes alot of resources from the PI, better connect directly to a monitor and if this is going run over the network in production run it headless(no ui/displayserver installed) and if possible a webui on another PC (prob need to configure alot over SSH if you can do that).

You could perhaps upgrade to a Pi5 with the GeekPi watercooling kit? Then you would be able to use "bulkhead" connectors (e.g. OC) for getting water in and out, en have the case completely sealed and cooling outside of the box.

Tip: Sdcard have a slow read write performance that could be the cause of it crashing. You might want to consider using a ssd drive instead. You can get a 512gb ssd cheaply these days. Also Sdcard tends to go bad easily.

Do you have 4.7k pullup resistors on the ds18b20 temp sensors? If not you will see junk data.

A quick tip from a network engineer. Document every single connection in visio or an equivalent software. Print that out and laminate it. Document all your IP addresses you use and be sure everything is statically assigned. Make sure you have redundancy factored in. Don't just build 1 SD card build 2 so you have a backup in case the primary fails. label both ends of every cable so you know where it is going to / where it is coming from. These small things will save you immense headaches in the future.

One little tip on the newer Pi's from my experience using them as embedded monitoring systems, load your OS onto a really good usb3.x stick (or even better a proper nvme/pci drive) as opposed to an sd. I have had an almost 100% failure on PI's using sd cards (from all different manufactures and quality levels) when putting them into a real production environment. most if not all SD cards just are not designed for the constant read and write cycles that a main hard drive on a pc experiences. I know you had mentioned you were likely going to be using a different PC on the final system but might help a little with some of the headaches.

Cool!

Oh, man, that's such a joy to see that you can do such things yourself and on a limited budget nowadays :)

Nice job. You should have put some aluminum plates on the inside to balance the weight out. I have 2 small piece on my jackplate .: I’m just afraid the extra weight would rip through my fiberglass

I must have missed the 13 motor test😢

Its nmea not neemah

I'm super excited about our collaboration... hope we can find time to do it. =-)

You’ll like it for about 6 months until the adhesive fails! I used SeaDek the first time and it outlasted the deck

I am a born and raised Floridian, grew up on the St. Johns River, spent tons of time in boats. I live in Vermont now so I haven't had a boat to mess with in quite some time, but I do work constantly on improving my Home Assistant server. I never really even thought about network hub connectivity and communication on a water vessel for whatever reason, but I'm loving the things I'm seeing in some research! Can't wait to see how it turns out! Props to you my good sir for taking on the task!

NMEA_0183_NMEA_2000_HAT_For_Raspberry_Pi, wow a full board, seemed too big at first.

I want to get the six pack license and have a boat so getting the days is not a big deal however I would not qualify for coastal license since it would be lakes so debating if it’s really worth the time and cost.

You actually did a great job man! I am not going to do it😂. I know I will screw it up and end up spending more money for more material 😂. My idea was to use the clear plastic as a template like you did. I kept thinking I'd run into exactly what you did with it too. There's just no easy way for a beginner to put that stuff down accurately easily. You did a fantastic job of not making a bunch of mistakes and costing more money for more material and it looks good to 👍

Tip for everyone trying this. Buy a bunch of razors. You need to change the Razor every 4 or 5 cuts to insure your blade is as sharp as possible. This stuff dulls the razor quickly. Factory recommends constant change of razor.

On the rpi os the sd card can be made to be read only, via raspi-config, so an unexpected power down would not corrupt it, if data logging is needed write it to an usb stick. search for "raspberry pi os read only core-electronics" make a copy of your sd card first !

You will need to glyptal that Pi if you want it to survive a marine environment and use bulkhead connectors on that case which will need to be replaced eventually- you shouldn't be pulling any air through that box- you could mount the Pi to an aluminum plate that is sealed to the back of the box if you need it for heat dissipation. A bigger box is the other solution- or an aluminum enclosure like a Rittal or Hoffman or if you are on a really tight budget an ammo can, rocket box, radar box, etc.

Do you have a link for that motor mount?

Didn’t haven and Gibson do this

Great video, but you should have taken the Whaler over there!

I'm very much enjoying your videos, thank you. During the covid year I rebuilt my 1981 13' Whaler which turned out great I just wish I set up the electrical panel for easier to access. I replaced the woodwork and boosted up the console and rear bench seat about 6" by cannibalizing the front bench. Much better for my back! Btw the stainless steel prop I installed years ago has been enormously beneficial. I love that old boat - the first owner ran it on Biscayne Bay, I took it all over from Sanibel to the 10,000 islands, for the last 20 years I boated around the big bend from St. Marks to St. Joseph's Bay plus lakes and rivers in the area. Now you are giving me new ideas! Thank you again.

Looks good! Nice job!

This is why I love the sixty eight more fun less work

It'd be a help if you could you do that again right handed. Haha, just kidding, nice job looks good. I imagine that material is cool on the feet.

Great job👏👏👏

Thanks!!! I think it could last in mine since I'm putting it on my salon. So no sun nor water just walking and I'll have to be careful when drinking on the boat. What do you think??