Excellent. I'll have to watch this a hundred times but all the subjects are covered and this will get me on the way. Just accumulating parts at the moment. Gotta love the open source stuff and the generous gifted people who contribute to the benefit of us all. Thank you. You make the the world a tiny bit better.
Excellent video tutorial I might say! Thank you. I had OpenPlotter 1.2 installed on my Raspberry3, and now moved to 2.0. The AIS is not working, but with your explanation I think it will work!
Thank you for making this video. Short and packed with facts. Not like the other ones i keep finding that are 30 minutes long and starts with explaining how to get the Raspberry running..
Wow. Started getting a little lost later on in the video but this is something I really want to do. I have ordered a RPi keyboard and screen so I can start experimenting with open cpn and integrating it with sensors etc. I may have to watch this video a few more times. Thanks
Thank you smart sailing boat for this amazing instructional video. It saved me a lot of time in setting up openplotter. All of this was totally new to me and the docs was all Chinese to me XDXDXD
What a video! You got me up and running quickly with my new OpenPlotter install. Now I just need a few more sensors, dongles, a voltage convertor, and a powered USB hub to get the rest up and running. Thanks much for putting this together!
You are a legend! This is by far the best Openplotter/Pi tutorial I have found. Please keep em coming, specifically how you set up and wired the MPU9250 board to the pi. Tutorial on setting up Autopilot (Pypilot) would be great too. Cheers!
Thanks! The MPU9250 is part of the GY-91 board and the wiring can be seen at 09:11. The connections and setup of an autopilot with pypilot is certainly a video that would interest many people, including myself :) If I can get it to work, I'll post a video. Sean d'Epagnier has some pretty descent videos to get you going in the meanwhile.
Were you able to connect the MPU9250? I see the wiring in the video but the chip does not show as one of the supported sensors. Also would love to hear if you were able to get the Pypilot working.
@@freelectron2029 everything worked so far, although there was a small hiccup with the free charts: apparently no free charts anymore for Europe. The rest worked
Thanx a lot Bro for the tutorial..i have a doubt...i have 2 rpi..one is a tranmsitter and other one is reciever..GPS data and MPU 9250 data would be received at the Receiver Rpi from Transmitter..how can we use this data to be included in Open Plotter..Since you have shown only one Rpi where the GPS and MPU 9250 are directly connected
Best overview yet. SUBSCRIBED But the assumption of always being connected to the internet should be in the intro, please. On a boat, this is not always as easy as a LAN cable to a house's wall. thanks
Nobody imagined that there is already a running op sustem (Raspibian) on the pi? why don`t you guys synchronize the setup with the official setup site for raspberry pi?
hi i bought a coursemaster cm 950 auto pilot and the compas/accelerometer sensor is not responding. i rang the manufacturere and they want $900 for a new one. (HALF THE PRICE OF THE WHOLE UNIT) TOTAL PRICE GOUGING! furious. how can i use this rasberry pi and the GY-91 to replace the and manufacturers compass. cm950 has a nema2000 connection. is this a doable thing? i currebtly have no plotter and am considering going the open plotter/pi route.
Hi, excellent explanation. Question: You obviously used text to speech software to make this, can you tell me what you used as I found the quality superior to what I use until now. Thanks for your help. Peter
Great instructions here, I have connected my Iphone to the openplotter access port, but I dont know what I do on my phone to connect to the dashboard can anyone advise thanks
@@josephu6845 thanks but that is where I get stuck, I can connect to the PI with my Iphone, but cant connect to the 10.10.10.1 address, the screen view on the video shows the pi screen do I need to have vcn on my phone
Great video! and perfect timing as I have been working on building one out. I saw you have SDR AIS 2.0.0-dev installed and it's showing in your OpenPlotter Apps table. How did you install that?
Hi. Glad you like it. Indeed, the SDR AIS is something many people are looking forward to, but it's not ready yet at the moment. So I downloaded it from Github and had to compile it manually. You can get it here: github.com/openplotter/openplotter-sdr-vhf The README.md explains it quite well. You may get some warnings, in which case you'll have to download some dependencies. Other than this it's pretty straightforward.
There's a new video that explains how to setup AIS in Openplotter here: ua-cam.com/video/N8l2G1hvySw/v-deo.html Sorry for the many replies. I hope it helps.
Good video overall, but there are some inaccuracies. For instance, you most certainly can use MicroSD cards larger than 32GB. Also, if you'll also be running anything with a lot of disk IO (such as home-assistant...yes, it works on boats, too), then you'll probably want to boot off of a USB thumb drive, or (better yet), a USB SSD drive, as the Micro SD cards are NOT very reliable in high-IO situations. I'm currently using a 40 GB SSD, and running HAAS (for automation and security), on top of Docker, on a rPi 4+. The flexibility is amazing, and there's plenty of processing power for managing it all. Docker allows multiple systems to be running simultaneously as well, without stepping on each other's toes.
Correct, you can find an updated installation guide in one of my other videos. I'm using an NVME connected to USB3 myself, it's indeed faster and more stable. Thanks for the tips on HAAS and Docker!
This video was extremely helpful. I just wanted to make everyone aware of a few things. First, there is a nasty bug with the latest Raspberry Pi kernel. If you update the Raspberry Pi OS (sudo apt-get update, etc) and you have the I2C interface enabled it will brick your Pi: forum.openmarine.net/showthread.php?tid=2633. There is a workaround, but probably worth waiting for RPI to fix the kernel. On a more positive note, you can now officially boot your Raspberry Pi from USB without an SD card. It is a little bit of work, but ultimately worth it for me. I have my main Open Plotter booting from a hard drive and I'll use an SD card as a backup. In the future, I might have a couple USB flash drives as backups and one to hold all the charts, etc. Here is a link to the video: ua-cam.com/video/pJdIG0J7QOA/v-deo.html
AIS works for me. You probably need to update to the latest version of your applications. Normally it's done automatically when installing openplotter.
How often do you need to move the sensors around? I was thinking about mounting my pi, but if you have to move it often then I might want to rethink how I mount it. Thanks again for the video super useful. I can't wait to watch the AIS transmit video I'm super pumped about that.
I used the SD tool you suggested and it formatted in exFAT. there is no option for fat32 now Rasberry pi 4 won't boot, I used sd card that came with the pi which is a 64g Evo plus. suggestions please
Apparently some people had success using an SD card bigger than 32GB. But for me it only worked with cards of 32GB or smaller in size. Then you should be able to format in FAT32.
For this you need a special SDR receiver that allows lower frequencies, like the SDRPlay. I may do a future video on this. In the meanwhile, this may help: ua-cam.com/video/lLBEZ4ZwUjg/v-deo.html
Hi, thanks for the video !! Unfortunately, I still have a few problems with the installation of the GPS. I use a PI4 with HAT. I did the GPS installation based on your video. Unfortunately I have no GPS signal under OpenCPN. Do I have to make changes when installing with HAT? VG
I can't help you with the HAT, but you can try to find an answer in the Openplotter forum (see link in the description). However, I did publish a more detailed video explaining how to setup GPS here: ua-cam.com/video/umfw8uLDkc0/v-deo.html Best of luck!
Hi, I have last Openplotter installed on Raspberry Pi 3B+. I connect the same USB GPS Dongle but nothing happen on Opencpn when I add connection in Serial app like You did. Can You tell me how You configure connection in Opencpn? Regards Przemek
This is a great primer! I'm almost all the way on all the parts you refer to. Thanks so much! Question, I am stuck getting the MPU-9250 going. I got the same board you have and like in your video I am able to get BMP pressure, altitude, and temp but I am having a hard time setting it up to read the MPU for the gyro, etc. Any tips on this? Can't seem to find any documentation on that specific IC board...
Funny, with the MPU-9250 sensor I had the least trouble :) It should be detected automatically in PyPilot. Try to detect it with "dmesg" in the command prompt maybe? If not, you can try the openplotter forum for help.
J'espere que vous n'avez pas raté votre avion. Vu la vitesse du débit de vos paroles et des images, vous aviez surment quelque chose à faire d'important apres cette vidéo.
Still in 2020, Linux and all open source software made for normal people sucks. This is no problem for me as a computer engineer with 25 years of experience but for a normal 50-70 year old person that tries this it's not going to work. Not even consider that your tutorial can't be followed unless they use the exact same hardware and software versions. There will be missing downloads, new names, settings has moved, etc etc. Someone should make an installer that simply asks questions until it's done, which still is impossible due to the reasons mentioned above. And, if you are going to buy a 12" high resolution 1000nits touch screen for this, the price will be about the same as a Raymarine or Garmin plotter.
Excellent. I'll have to watch this a hundred times but all the subjects are covered and this will get me on the way. Just accumulating parts at the moment. Gotta love the open source stuff and the generous gifted people who contribute to the benefit of us all. Thank you. You make the the world a tiny bit better.
I built this system including ais and then crossed the Atlantic ocean. Flawless.
As a low-tech guy this gives me the confidence to just do it. Thanks so much 😎
Check also BBN Marine OS for raspberry pi4. Many free and opensource boat software packages preinstalled and preconfigured.
Thank you.
Clear.concise, agile, intelligent video with a gold treasure of information
Excellent video tutorial I might say! Thank you. I had OpenPlotter 1.2 installed on my Raspberry3, and now moved to 2.0. The AIS is not working, but with your explanation I think it will work!
Excellent and concise explanation of what I needed to know. Great job.
Geweldige video, alles waar ik al lang naar op zoek was in 1 video. Dank je wel.
Thank you for making this video.
Short and packed with facts. Not like the other ones i keep finding that are 30 minutes long and starts with explaining how to get the Raspberry running..
Amazing video,a bit fast for the newby like me but I’ll watch it over and over until I get everything !!thank you
Yes, awfully fast for me
@@terrywelch8418 pause button!
Wow. Started getting a little lost later on in the video but this is something I really want to do. I have ordered a RPi keyboard and screen so I can start experimenting with open cpn and integrating it with sensors etc. I may have to watch this video a few more times. Thanks
Thank you very much I will be looking this up for when I get a boat.
That’s awesome thank you for the inspiration I definitely will improve my boat wit this projects you shared fair winds mate
A thousand times...THANKYOU!
Thank you smart sailing boat for this amazing instructional video. It saved me a lot of time in setting up openplotter. All of this was totally new to me and the docs was all Chinese to me XDXDXD
What a video! You got me up and running quickly with my new OpenPlotter install. Now I just need a few more sensors, dongles, a voltage convertor, and a powered USB hub to get the rest up and running. Thanks much for putting this together!
Great work! So glad to have Pi & Openplotter running on my 40 year old motorsailer. 👍👍👍
Thanks so much for sharing your experience
You are a legend! This is by far the best Openplotter/Pi tutorial I have found. Please keep em coming, specifically how you set up and wired the MPU9250 board to the pi. Tutorial on setting up Autopilot (Pypilot) would be great too. Cheers!
Thanks! The MPU9250 is part of the GY-91 board and the wiring can be seen at 09:11.
The connections and setup of an autopilot with pypilot is certainly a video that would interest many people, including myself :) If I can get it to work, I'll post a video. Sean d'Epagnier has some pretty descent videos to get you going in the meanwhile.
Were you able to connect the MPU9250? I see the wiring in the video but the chip does not show as one of the supported sensors. Also would love to hear if you were able to get the Pypilot working.
Whoops watched more of the video and saw how to connect the MPU9250 through Pypilot
How can I connect a Stepper Motor or a DC Motor for the autopilot?
Thank you for this great video and your time to make it!
I had installed BMP280 and it worked fine. Then I installed GY-91 and I2C does not work, PyPilot does. Any advice?
very good and useful video tuto, thank you !
There is also PyPilot to integrate autopilot
fantastic tutorial !!!! i’m excited 😃 …. saving $$$$$ and such a great addition to my adventures .. Thx Again 🙏☮️
Very good tutorial. Thank you.
Great video. Great DIY project and the way to learn to repair what you have in the field.
I wanted to mention that I came across an issue when setting up the AIS. If your dongle does not get enough power it will give weird readings
Well done - very interesting and clear!!
Thank you that is an excellent video to get me started.
Great idea ! I'm going to try this on my boat...will let you know how that works out
..... not so good huh?
@@freelectron2029 everything worked so far, although there was a small hiccup with the free charts: apparently no free charts anymore for Europe. The rest worked
Thanx a lot Bro for the tutorial..i have a doubt...i have 2 rpi..one is a tranmsitter and other one is reciever..GPS data and MPU 9250 data would be received at the Receiver Rpi from Transmitter..how can we use this data to be included in Open Plotter..Since you have shown only one Rpi where the GPS and MPU 9250 are directly connected
At the start.... what screen
Are you using the (free) Navionics APP for iPad ? Or did you buy the Navionics sea maps for GPS ?
No iPad, no Avionics. OpenCPN and free charts. (see the links in the description)
Thank you this looks like a very good system and systems to have
Best overview yet. SUBSCRIBED
But the assumption of always being connected to the internet should be in the intro, please.
On a boat, this is not always as easy as a LAN cable to a house's wall. thanks
Indeed, for the installation it's a must. I've made an updated video to clarify: ua-cam.com/video/WIW1iKOsoGk/v-deo.html
@@smartsailingboat8812 Thanks, I have EasyTether bringing true broadband to my Openplotter server over an Android phone now
you can use 128GB SD cards if you want though. i personally always use 64GB once.
Maps available only for US and handful of other countries :-((
Thanks for your help. Well done mate
Wow, what a eye opener, learned a lot for sure..
Nice informative video. Can you help me get the Raspberry Pi Sense Hat working with Open CPN? thanks
Nobody imagined that there is already a running op sustem (Raspibian) on the pi? why don`t you guys synchronize the setup with the official setup site for raspberry pi?
Very nicely done mate! Any updates since the original install?
hi i bought a coursemaster cm 950 auto pilot and the compas/accelerometer sensor is not responding. i rang the manufacturere and they want $900 for a new one. (HALF THE PRICE OF THE WHOLE UNIT) TOTAL PRICE GOUGING! furious. how can i use this rasberry pi and the GY-91 to replace the and manufacturers compass. cm950 has a nema2000 connection. is this a doable thing? i currebtly have no plotter and am considering going the open plotter/pi route.
Good work mate. Well done.
What to do if your from Denmark, then you can't donwload a maps to the Openplotter?
Great video, lots of info.
Hi, excellent explanation. Question: You obviously used text to speech software to make this, can you tell me what you used as I found the quality superior to what I use until now. Thanks for your help.
Peter
so how do we download the weather, via NAVTEX oder via the internet?
I've finished making the video for WeatherFax: ua-cam.com/video/cdKhxicZHGs/v-deo.html
NAVTEX is very similar. Enjoy!
Great instructions here, I have connected my Iphone to the openplotter access port, but I dont know what I do on my phone to connect to the dashboard can anyone advise
thanks
Watch the video starting @11:09
It shows how to view the dashboard on your mobile device
It looks like the default address is 10.10.10.1
@@josephu6845 thanks but that is where I get stuck, I can connect to the PI with my Iphone, but cant connect to the 10.10.10.1 address, the screen view on the video shows the pi screen do I need to have vcn on my phone
forget that i did it
Thanks for all this info ! god bless you!
Great info. Subscribed
Great video! and perfect timing as I have been working on building one out. I saw you have SDR AIS 2.0.0-dev installed and it's showing in your OpenPlotter Apps table. How did you install that?
Hi. Glad you like it. Indeed, the SDR AIS is something many people are looking forward to, but it's not ready yet at the moment.
So I downloaded it from Github and had to compile it manually. You can get it here: github.com/openplotter/openplotter-sdr-vhf
The README.md explains it quite well. You may get some warnings, in which case you'll have to download some dependencies.
Other than this it's pretty straightforward.
I've added a video that explains how to do it from github: ua-cam.com/video/6Q6yV6_Jw20/v-deo.html
There's a new video that explains how to setup AIS in Openplotter here: ua-cam.com/video/N8l2G1hvySw/v-deo.html
Sorry for the many replies. I hope it helps.
Great info, thanks!
Basis pre-installed openplotter system 4tracer
Very nicely done mate! Any updates since the original install? Ive been running the 64bit version Raspbian and its come a long way in the last year.
Good video overall, but there are some inaccuracies. For instance, you most certainly can use MicroSD cards larger than 32GB. Also, if you'll also be running anything with a lot of disk IO (such as home-assistant...yes, it works on boats, too), then you'll probably want to boot off of a USB thumb drive, or (better yet), a USB SSD drive, as the Micro SD cards are NOT very reliable in high-IO situations.
I'm currently using a 40 GB SSD, and running HAAS (for automation and security), on top of Docker, on a rPi 4+. The flexibility is amazing, and there's plenty of processing power for managing it all. Docker allows multiple systems to be running simultaneously as well, without stepping on each other's toes.
Correct, you can find an updated installation guide in one of my other videos. I'm using an NVME connected to USB3 myself, it's indeed faster and more stable. Thanks for the tips on HAAS and Docker!
This video was extremely helpful.
I just wanted to make everyone aware of a few things. First, there is a nasty bug with the latest Raspberry Pi kernel. If you update the Raspberry Pi OS (sudo apt-get update, etc) and you have the I2C interface enabled it will brick your Pi: forum.openmarine.net/showthread.php?tid=2633. There is a workaround, but probably worth waiting for RPI to fix the kernel.
On a more positive note, you can now officially boot your Raspberry Pi from USB without an SD card. It is a little bit of work, but ultimately worth it for me. I have my main Open Plotter booting from a hard drive and I'll use an SD card as a backup. In the future, I might have a couple USB flash drives as backups and one to hold all the charts, etc. Here is a link to the video: ua-cam.com/video/pJdIG0J7QOA/v-deo.html
Thanks for this info. Cheers
I tried to Install the AIS on my Open Plotter. Unfortunately The AIS program says "coming soon". Is there a workaround for this?
AIS works for me. You probably need to update to the latest version of your applications. Normally it's done automatically when installing openplotter.
How often do you need to move the sensors around? I was thinking about mounting my pi, but if you have to move it often then I might want to rethink how I mount it. Thanks again for the video super useful. I can't wait to watch the AIS transmit video I'm super pumped about that.
only the first time you set it up
I used the SD tool you suggested and it formatted in exFAT. there is no option for fat32 now Rasberry pi 4 won't boot, I used sd card that came with the pi which is a 64g Evo plus. suggestions please
Apparently some people had success using an SD card bigger than 32GB. But for me it only worked with cards of 32GB or smaller in size. Then you should be able to format in FAT32.
@@smartsailingboat8812 I run Raspberry Pi on a 128 GB SD card, Raspian desktop with all disk capacity available.
Thanks. This is a very helpful video. Can you explain how I can use openplotter to download the daily Weatherfaxes broadcast on ShortWave?
For this you need a special SDR receiver that allows lower frequencies, like the SDRPlay. I may do a future video on this. In the meanwhile, this may help: ua-cam.com/video/lLBEZ4ZwUjg/v-deo.html
I've finished making the video for WeatherFax: ua-cam.com/video/cdKhxicZHGs/v-deo.html
Enjoy!
Life saver! Thank you soooo much!! :)
Great video!
top notch overview !!! Best I have seen so far !!! Thanks for sharing this.
did you tick the box i am a robot?
Hi, thanks for the video !!
Unfortunately, I still have a few problems with the installation of the GPS.
I use a PI4 with HAT.
I did the GPS installation based on your video.
Unfortunately I have no GPS signal under OpenCPN.
Do I have to make changes when installing with HAT?
VG
I can't help you with the HAT, but you can try to find an answer in the Openplotter forum (see link in the description). However, I did publish a more detailed video explaining how to setup GPS here: ua-cam.com/video/umfw8uLDkc0/v-deo.html
Best of luck!
If I have the antenna outside or against my window it works. ( I use an USB GPS as in the video)
Hi, I have last Openplotter installed on Raspberry Pi 3B+. I connect the same USB GPS Dongle but nothing happen on Opencpn when I add connection in Serial app like You did. Can You tell me how You configure connection in Opencpn?
Regards Przemek
In OpenCPN in 'Connections', you'll need to connect to the Pi server on address 10.10.10.1 (or the LAN network address) and port 10110 (TCP).
@@smartsailingboat8812 Thanks, it works now.
This is a great primer! I'm almost all the way on all the parts you refer to. Thanks so much!
Question, I am stuck getting the MPU-9250 going. I got the same board you have and like in your video I am able to get BMP pressure, altitude, and temp but I am having a hard time setting it up to read the MPU for the gyro, etc. Any tips on this? Can't seem to find any documentation on that specific IC board...
Funny, with the MPU-9250 sensor I had the least trouble :) It should be detected automatically in PyPilot. Try to detect it with "dmesg" in the command prompt maybe? If not, you can try the openplotter forum for help.
Thank you voor de help )) !
Uh.....I have 64gb (pi2, 3b and 3b+ and even a 128gb running on the pi4 4gb, the OS just resizes on first boot OK
True, it is updated now in my new video where I used a 400GB SD card: ua-cam.com/video/WIW1iKOsoGk/v-deo.html
this is great thanks
Is this applicable in Bangladesh as well?
Great !!!
I would like to point out, that SD card larger than 32gb WILL in fact work on raspberry pi...
Sweet!
If you could slow down with the courser it would have been better there are a lot of people that would bypass you.
J'espere que vous n'avez pas raté votre avion. Vu la vitesse du débit de vos paroles et des images, vous aviez surment quelque chose à faire d'important apres cette vidéo.
It is WAY to fast for me
Still in 2020, Linux and all open source software made for normal people sucks. This is no problem for me as a computer engineer with 25 years of experience but for a normal 50-70 year old person that tries this it's not going to work. Not even consider that your tutorial can't be followed unless they use the exact same hardware and software versions. There will be missing downloads, new names, settings has moved, etc etc.
Someone should make an installer that simply asks questions until it's done, which still is impossible due to the reasons mentioned above.
And, if you are going to buy a 12" high resolution 1000nits touch screen for this, the price will be about the same as a Raymarine or Garmin plotter.
All said well, but do YOU have the right solution !!!
The installation has been made easier now thanks to the availability of a new tool from the Raspberry Pi guys: ua-cam.com/video/WIW1iKOsoGk/v-deo.html
I can build one of these for you.
Send me a message if you need one of these, complete and configured.
sounds quite unreliable