Marine Navigation on a Raspberry Pi 5, #davethemmp

US charts you can download for free and you can download is strait in open cpn

Good idea for the screens

Hi. I am building my "smart boat" with BBN. my conclusion is : BBN with a touch screen attached to the rpi will be inside the boat. and I use a waterproof, bit battery tablet from oukitel for the cockpit. I have navionics for navigation on it, and can access to all BBN application with wifi, access point from rpi or a router. I will put the inside screen in place I can see from outside, so I can see some dashboard as well.

in comparison to your i have a garmin 943x with radar, sonar, nmea etc. It's nice but maps are up to $250 (plus tax) It pull at least 50w when running. It's on a swing arm instead of hard mounting because I know it will fail eventually and then I'll have to fill the mounting hole(s).

Great video..... thanks.... wanting to make my Cal29 digital with Raspberry Pi and related components.... cheers from SV The Lounge in Nanaimo.....

Hi, good video, have you looked into the Home Assistant integration with the BBN OS?

BBN Marine OS 2024-03-03 has been released with few valuable fixes.

Dave, can you share what waterproof 13" screen you bought? And thank for sharing about the Pi5 and marine navigation! :)

Hi. Excellent video. Could you say what specific touchscreen you're getting? Thank you.

I like the concept of BBN and I know the more options out there the better, but I prefer openPlotter for a few reasons : - Firstly OpenPlotter is just software, meaning it will run on differents OS and I'm not tied to a, although quite active, ultimately kind of niche OS with a small dev team that might just stop being updated at any points. Instead, I run openPlotter on Debian, which is never ever going to die. - Secondly, and this is more of a personal choice, I very much want to keep my nav systems the most stable and secure. That mean I want it to run only my sensors and instruments, segregated from every other electronics. So no music, no mail, and definetly no internet. - Finally, I work in IT, and so I can tell you that the openPlotter team spent a huge amount of time documenting their software, which is both extremely rare and extremely valuable.

Hang your screen on the underside of the compagnionway hatch. That way you can push it (almost) all the way open. Just my 2c 🙂

the US charts for OCPN are free, just add the Chart downloader. All the programs I have used on my Raspberry Pi 5 never use more than 2Gb of Ram. I like the Idea of the Dashboard but find BBN very bloated. I tend to use tabs in Chromium as the selector dashboard instead - enjoy!!

get an intel nuc with a hdmi touchscreen monitor to use. nuc would be more responsive, snappy.

Noaa charts are free from the US government