OpenCPNV

Exploring OpenCPNSubjects

- Find the manual- Add charts- Create chart groups- Plugins- Program settings (GPS, Vector Charts, AIS, Language/Fonts) - ROUTES: create, save and change- TRACKS: create, save and display- ANCHORAGES: save and display- LAYERS: create and display- GRIB files- Voyage data recording

Version 1.3 (22 Sept 2014)

Exploring OpenCPN - Find the manualON THE TOOLBAR CLICK ON THE ‘BOOK’ ICON WITH THE ‘?’ MARK

Exploring OpenCPN - Find the manual

CLICK ON THE ‘Help’ TAB

Exploring OpenCPN - Find the manual

THE USER MANUALOPENS WITHIN YOURCOMPUTER BROWSER(Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc)

YOU DO NOT NEED TO BEONLINE

Exploring OpenCPN - Add chartsON THE OpenCPN TOOLBAR, CLICK ON ‘Options’ (the ‘wrench’) THEN ‘Charts’.CLICK ON ‘Add Directory’ NOTE THAT THE cm93 CHARTS HAVEALREADY BEEN LOADED IN THIS EXAMPLE

Exploring OpenCPN - Add charts

NAVIGATE TO WHERE YOU HAVECHARTS STORED ON YOURCOMPUTER. SELECT THECHARTS YOU WANT TO ADD.IN THIS CASE THEY ARE GE2KAPOVERLAY CHARTS OF THEPHILIPPINES.

HIGLIGHT THE DESIRED CHARTSAND SELECT ‘OK’


NEXT CHECK THE BOX ‘Force Full Database Rebuild’ THEN CLICK ‘OK’


WAIT WHILE THE DATABASE IS UPDATED


HERE I HAVE REPEATED THE STEPS TO LOAD BSB CHARTSOF THE PHILIPPINES. DISPLAYING ALL CHARTS AT ONCE CANSLOW DOWN THE PROGRAM. HAVING SELECTABLE ‘CHARTGROUPS’ IS BETTER, THE NEXT TOPIC

Exploring OpenCPN - Create chart group

ON THE ‘Options/Charts’ PAGE, CLICK THE TAB ‘Chart Groups’

Exploring OpenCPN - Create chart groupCLICK ‘New Group’

ENTER A NAME FOR THEGROUP AND CLICK ‘OK’

Exploring OpenCPN - Create chart groupNOW SELECT THE CHARTS TO BE ADDED TO THE NEW GROUP.IT’S BEST TO ALWAYS INCLUDE THE BASIC CHARTS, cm93.HIGHLIGHT THESE CHARTS AND CLICK ON ‘Add’

Exploring OpenCPN - Create chart groupNOW HIGHLIGHT THE NEW CHARTS FOR THIS GROUP AND CLICK ON ‘Add’

Exploring OpenCPN - Create chart group

THE NEW CHARTS FOR THIS GROUP AND THE cm93 ARE SHOWN. CLICK ‘OK’

Exploring OpenCPN - Create chart groupHERE I HAVE CREATED A SECOND GROUP OF THE BSB CHARTSFOR THE PHILIPPINES

Exploring OpenCPN - Create chart groupTO DISPLAY A DESIRED CHART GROUP, RIGHT-CLICK ON THEOpenCPN SCREEN AND CLICK ON ‘Chart Groups’ AND THE ONEYOU WANT TO BE DISPLAYED, e.g. PHILIPPINE BSB CHARTS

Exploring OpenCPN - Create chart groupAND THE BSB CHARTS ARE DISPLAYED. TO CHANGE TO ANYOTHER CHART GROUP, RIGHT-CLICK ON THE SCREEN AS BEFORE

Exploring OpenCPN - PluginsPlugins for OpenCPN 3.2 and later:

FOR ANY PLUGIN OTHER THAN THE ‘DASHBOARD’ AND ‘GRIB’,YOU MUST DOWNLOAD IT FROM THE OpenCPN WEBSITE.AVAILABLE AS OF 5 MAR 14 ARE:

Launcher v0.2, released 2013-12-24 The plugin allows the user to define several buttons to launch external commands. Primarily targetting touch screen devices.

.GRadar v1.3, released 2013-11-25 The plugin overlays the radar pictureon OpenCPN and works with modern Garmin(Ethernet capable) radar scanners only.

Climatology v0.2, released 2013-06-25 Intended to aid in planning sailingvoyages, to help visualize weather patterns, and to integrate with weatherrouting plugin to compute optimal sailing routes. Satellite weather data fromthe last 30 years is averaged, then represented using only useful bits, thencompressed to produce a much smaller database used by the plugin.


SAR v0.8, released 2013-04-07 Creates Search and Rescue patternswith desired parameters.

Weatherfax v0.6, released 2013-04-06 Read weather fax encoded dataas audio or image. Overlay this on top of charts

Celestial Navigation v1.5, released 2013-04-06 Implements nauticalalmanac for sun, moon, planets, and various navigational stars. Enablethe User to compute position fix from celestial measurements.

Calculator v1.3, released 2013-04-06 This is a calculator &mathematical expression parsing plugin.Would you like to know your hull speed?World Magnetic Model v0.7a, released 2013-04-06 Implements theNOAA World Magnetic Model The bundled WMM2010 model expiresDecember 31, 2014. After then, if new version of the plugin will not bereleased in time, get a new WMM.COF from NOAA and place it to thelocation you can find the OpenCPN logfile. The plugin can plot the variationon top of the chart


AIS Radar plugin v0.96, released 2013-03-10 Implements a radar-likedisplay for AIS targets

Google Earth Plugin v0.10, released 2013-03-07 Integrates Google Earthsatellite view to OpenCPN

BSB4 v1.2, released 2012-03-29 BSB4 PlugIn for OpenCPN providessupport of BSB Version 4 Raster charts, format used by many hydrographicauthorities throughout the world. Supported charts must have been installedwith appropriate encryption certificates in place

nv-charts Plugin v1.3, released 2012-03-29 Provides OpenCPN supportfor nv-charts (.EAP extension). Supported charts must have been correctlyinstalled with valid encryption certificates in place.

Logbook Konni v1.1, released 2012-06-21, supports OpenCPN 2.6 andlater Complex logbook with a lot of features and customizable layout.

FindIt v1.0, released 2012-06-04, supports OpenCPN 2.6 and laterStowage manager for OpenCPN, integrates with Konni's Logbook


VDR or Voyage Data Recorder v0.3, released 2012-05-28, supportsOpenCPN 2.6 and later Save NMEA stream to a file. Replay NMEA streampreviously saved.

Debugger v0.1, released 2012-06-07, supports OpenCPN 2.6 and later. Shows the messages travelling through the plugin API This plugin is aimedmainly at the developers and to help troubleshoot problems with NMEA data stream

Route v1.0, released 2012-10-07, supports OpenCPN 2.6 and later.Plots Great Circle routes, Limited Circle Routes and Rhumb lines.

THE ONES I HAVE INSTALLED ARE IN YELLOW ABOVE

END OF PLUGINS FOR OPENCPN 3.2 AND LATER

NEXT ARE PLUGINS FOR OPENCPN 3.3 AND LATER


Statusbar v0.2, released 2013-03-02 The built-in status bar is very limitedin it's configuration options and can be difficult to read. This plugin replacesit with a more configurable one. For best results, you should disable thebuilt-in toolbar on the User Interface tab in the Toolbox and set theY position of the plugin toolbar to at least the pixel size of the fontselected in the plugin preferences.

Watchdog v1.0, released 2013-03-02 The plugin implements variousconfigurable alarms alerting the user about the changing conditions aroundthe boat. Also implements an improved anchor alarm.

Warning: These plugins need extensions implemented after the current stable version 3.2 was released, you must be using at least version 3.3 beta for them to work.

Exploring OpenCPN - PluginsDownloading Plugins

DOWNLOAD THE DESIRED PLUGIN(S) FROM THE OpenCPN SITE

http://opencpn.org/ocpn/downloadplugins

Exploring OpenCPN - PluginsInstalling Plugins

FROM THE FOLDERCONTAINING THEDOWNLOADEDPLUGIN, DRAG ANDDROP IT INTO THE‘plugins’ FOLDER UNDER ‘Program Files/OpenCPN

LAUNCH OpenCPN

HERE I HAVEDOWNLOADED THEAis radar PLUGIN


ON THE Options PAGE SELECT Plugins AND SCROLL DOWN TO THEAIS Radar view PLUGIN. SELECT ‘Enable’


SELECTING Preferences OPENS THE SCREEN ‘Radar Preferences’CHECK BOTH BOXES AND CLICK ON ‘OK’


THE ICON APPEARS IN THE TOOLBARIT’S USE WILL BE DEMONSTRATED LATER UNDER ‘Program Settiings’

Exploring OpenCPN - Program settingsGPS

GO TO ‘Options/Connections’ AND CLICK ON ‘Add Connection’


SCROLL DOWN THE SCREEN. USE THE ELEVATOR IN THE ‘DataPort’WINDOW TO SELECT THE COM PORT THE GPS IS USING, IN THISCASE COM1. NEXT SELECT ‘OK’


ON THE OpenCPN SCREEN THE GPS WILL BE SEEN AS GREEN BARSIN THE UPPER RIGHT HAND CORNER AND THE BOAT ICON WILL BE RED

Exploring OpenCPN - Program settings Vector charts

MY RECOMMENDEDSETTINGS ARE THESE.NOTE YOU CAN SET THEDEPTH UNITS TO YOURCHOICE ; NORMALLY TOMATCH YOUR DEPTHINSTRUMENT

Exploring OpenCPN - Program settings AIS

TO ADD THE AIS INCOMING DATA FROM THE OUTPUT OF THE INSTALLEDAIS DEVICE, GO TO Options/Connections AND CLICK ON Add Connection


USE THE ELEVATOR TO SCROLL DOWN THE SCREEN AND CLICKON THE ELEVATOR NEXT TO DataPort TO SHOW AVAILABLE PORTS


IN THIS CASE I HAVE SELECTED COM11 (MY CONFIGURATION) ANDHAVE CHANGED THE BaudRate TO 38400 (STANDARD AIS DATA RATE)CLICK ON ‘OK’


THE DISPLAY IS SHOWINNG SHIPS AT ANCHOR (YELLOW WITH ABLACK DOT) AND UNDERWAY (GREEN). ALSO THE GPS INDICATORIN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER IS A GREEN BALL INSTEAD OF THE PREVIOUS INDICATION OF VERTICAL LINES TO INDICATE AIS DATA


THE DISPLAY OF AIS TARGETS ON OpenCPN HAS A VARIETY OF FEATURES AND CONDITIONS.

PLEASE REFER TO THE AIS SECTION OF THE USER MANUAL FORDETAILED READING ON THIS SUBJECT.

BUT SEEING IS NOT ALWAYS BELIEVING! THE DATA BEING SENT FROM A TARGET IS NOT ALWAYS CORRECT. OTHER THAN THE INFORMATION ENTERED DURING INSTALLATION (NAME, CALL SIGN, MMSI, CLASS, SHIP DETAILS) AND THAT COMING FROM THE GPS (POSITION, SOG, COG, RATE OF TURN) IT IS DEPENDENT ON THE CREW TO ENTER INFORMATION SUCH AS STATUS (MOORED, UNDERWAY, ETA, DESTINATION, ETC).

AND DON’T BE CONFUSED BY A TARGET THAT APPEARS TO BE MOVING SIDEWAYS OR BACKWARDS. THE CORRECT ORIENTATION OF THE VESSEL ON THE DISPLAY IS DETERMINED BY CORRECT WIRING OF THE ON-BOARD HEADING SENSOR. IT’S NOT ALWAYS THE CASE.


PLACING THE CURSOR OVER A SHIP GIVES A POP-UP INFORMATION BOX


RIGHT-CLICK ANYWHERE ON THESCREEN TO SELECT THE AIS Target List

NOTE THE DETAILS OF THE SHIP THAT ISUNDERWAY IN ADDITION TO ALL TARGETS

Exploring OpenCPN - Program settings AISCLICK ON THE AIS Radar View

ICON (WHEN INSTALLED) TO BRING UP THE DISPLAY OF SHIPSWITHIN THE SELECTED Range

CHECKING THE ‘EBL’ BOX(ELECTRONIC BEARING LINE)PLACES A BEARING LINE FROMYOUR VESSEL TO ANY POINT THECURSOR IS CLICKED.

THIS IS OFTEN DONE TO KEEP ANEYE ON THE INCREASING, STEADYOR DECREASING BEARING TOKNOW IF YOU ARE IN A POTENTIALCOLLISION SITUATION

BUT THERE ARE A PLETHORA OFCOLLISION AVOIDANCE SETTINGSPOSSIBLE. AS SHOWN NEXT


FOR HELP ON THESE AISSETTINGS PLEASE REFERTO THE OpenCPN MANUAL

GO TO Options/Ships/AIS TargetsTO DISPLAY THE OPTIONALSETTINGS FOR AIS

Exploring OpenCPN - Program settingsLanguage/Fonts

WHEN OpenCPN IS INSTALLED ON SMALLER SCREEN COMPUTERS,SUCH AS NETBOOKS, THE FONT ON THE SCREEN MAY BE LARGE

Exploring OpenCPN - Program settingsLanguage/Fonts

A WAY TO CHANGE TO FONTS THAT ARE DESIGNED FOR THESE SMALLMACHINES IS TO INSTALL IN THE WINDOWS FONTS FOLDER A SET OFFONTS TITLED ‘DROID SANS’. THE FONTS CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM:http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Droid-Sans

GO TO THIS INTERNET LOCATION AND CLICK ON ‘Download TTF’

Exploring OpenCPNProgram settings : Toolbox – Language/Fonts

AFTER DOWNLOADINGTHE FONT FILE, UNZIPIT TO ANY CONVENIENTFOLDER.

DRAG AND DROP THETWO .TTF FILES INTOTHE WINDOWS FONTSFOLDER

IF CONNECTED TO THEINTERNET YOU CAN DOA DIRECT DOWNLOADBY CLICKINGON THIS LINK TO GETTHE ZIPPED FILE

Exploring OpenCPNProgram settings : Toolbox – Language/FontsGO TO Options/User Interface PAGE.ON THE ELEVATOR UNDER ‘Fonts’, SELECT ‘Chart Texts’ THENCLICK ON ‘Choose Font …’

Exploring OpenCPNProgram settings : Toolbox – Language/Fonts

THIS WINDOW APPEARS.MAKE THE SELECTIONSAS SHOWN THEN CLICK ON ‘Ok’

Exploring OpenCPNProgram settings : Toolbox – Language/FontsTHE SMALLER, LESS CLUTTERED TEXT IS DISPLAYED. IF YOUWANT OTHER STYLES REPEAT THE ABOVE

Exploring OpenCPN – ROUTESCreate a route

BEGIN BY SELECTING THE‘Create Route’ TOOL ON THETOOLBAR

THE CURSOR TURNS TO A‘PENCIL’ SHAPE


CLICK THE PENCIL POINTER AT DESIRED LOCATIONSTO DESCRIBE THE ROUTE


CONTINUE DROPPING WAYPOINTS UNTIL THE ROUTE HASBEEN CREATED THEN PRESS THE ‘ESC’ KEY TO STOP


OPEN THE ‘RouteManager’ FROM THETOOLBAR

ON THE ‘Routes’ TABSELECT THE NEW(Unnamed Route) THEN CLICK ON‘Properties;


HERE YOU CAN GIVE THE ROUTE A NAME (e.g. SAMPLE ROUTE)ROUTE PROPERTIES SUCH AS THE LENGTH AND THE WAYPOINTINFORMATION IS PRESENTED

Exploring OpenCPN – ROUTESSave a route

TO ‘SAVE’ THE ROUTE GO TO THE Route Manager, HIGHLIGHT THEROUTE AND CLICK ON ‘Export Route’


NAVIGATE TO WHERE YOU SAVE YOUR ROUTES (e.g. such asMy Routes under My Documents) AND OPEN THE FOLDER


CLICK ON ‘Save’ AND THE ROUTE IS SAVED TO THE HARD DRIVE

Exploring OpenCPN – ROUTESChange a route

TO CHANGE A ROUTE, RIGHT-CLICK ON A POINT OF THE ROUTEAND SELECT ‘Insert Waypoint’


PLACE THE CURSOR ON THE NEWLY CREATED WAYPOINT ANDMOVE IT TO THE DESIRED LOCATION (But see next slide)


IT MAY HAPPEN THAT YOU CANNOT MOVE A WAYPOINT ON THENEWLY CREATED ROUTE. THIS IS BECAUSE ALL WAYPOINTS HAVEBEEN LOCKED. GO TO OPTIONS/USER INTERFACE AND UNCHECKTHE BOX ‘LOCK WAYPOINTS …’


CHECKING THE Route Properties SHOWS THE CHANGES TO THE ROUTE .. LONGER DISTANCE AND THE NEW WAYPOINT


THE ROUTE PREVIOUSLY SAVED DOES NOT CONTAIN THE NEWINFORMATION. FROM THE Route Manager EXPORT THE ROUTEAGAIN LETTING IT OVERWRITE THE OLD ROUTE

Exploring OpenCPN – TRACKSCreate a track

CLICK ON THE ‘Toggle Tracking’ ICON TO ACTIVATE TRACKING NOTE THAT THE ‘Dashboard’ HAS BEEN ACTIVATED ALSO


TRACKING IS CONFIRMED BY THE ICON BECOMING SHADED


THE VESSEL’S TRACK IS DISPLAYED. NO, MY BOAT WASN’T DOING99 KTS – I USED SIMULATION TO CREATE THESE IMAGES


THE SIMULATION IS STOPPED HERE TO DESCRIBE SAVING THE TRACK

Exploring OpenCPN – TRACKSSave a track

IN THE Route Manager HIGHLIGHT THE TRACK AND CLICK ON ‘Export Track’

Exploring OpenCPN – TRACKSSave a track

NAVIGATE TO WHERE YOU SAVE YOUR TRACKS AND ‘Save’ THE TRACK

YOUR CHOICE

Exploring OpenCPN – TRACKSRename a track

IN THE Route Manager CLICK ON THE Tracks TAB. CLICK ON THE TRACK TO HIGHLIGHT IT THEN CLICK ON PROPERTIES

Exploring OpenCPN – TRACKSRename a track

CHANGE THE NAMETO WHAT YOU WANT

CLICK ON ‘OK’

Exploring OpenCPN – TRACKSDisplay a saved track

IN Route Manager SELECT THETracks TAB AND CLICK ONImport GPX

NAVIGATE TO YOUR SAVED TRACKS,SELECT THE DESIRED ONE AND CLICKON Open

Exploring OpenCPN – TRACKSDisplay a saved track

THE TRACK IS SHOWN ON THE CHART. YOU CAN DELETE FROM THE Route Manager OR BY RIGHT-CLICKING ON THE TRACK AND SELECT‘Delete

Exploring OpenCPN – ANCHORAGESSave an anchorage location

SHOWN BELOW IS THE ARRIVAL AT AN ANCHORAGE


ZOOM IN TO SHOW WHERE THE ANCHOR WAS DROPPED


RIGHT-CLICK AND CLICK ON ‘Drop Mark (Ctl-M’)


A TRIANGLE APPEARS AT THE SELECTED POINT


RIGHT-CLICK ON THEMARK AND CLICK ON‘Properties’


THE SMALL TRIANGLE IS HARD TO SEE SO WE WILL CHANGE THE SYMBOL. CLICK ON THE ELEVATOR NEXT TO THE NAME


SELECT (CLICK ON) THE ‘Anchorage’ SYMBOL


HERE I HAVE CHANGED THE NAME TO SOMETHING EASY TORECOGNIZE IN THE FUTURE. WHEN DONE CLICK ON ‘OK’


THE ANCHORAGE IS NOW DISPLAYED BUT NOT SAVED!


HIGHLIGHT THE ANCHORAGE AND CLICK ON ‘Export Wpt ..’


NAVIGATE TO WHERE YOU SAVE ANCHORAGES, CHECK THEFILE NAME FOR ACCURACY AND CLICK ON ‘Save’

Exploring OpenCPN – ANCHORAGESDisplay a saved anchorage

HERE WE WISH TO RECALL THE PREVIOUSLY SAVED ANCHORAGE


IN Route Manager SELECT THE Waypoints TAB THEN CLICK ONImport GPX


NAVIGATE TO YOUR SAVED ANCHORAGES, SELECT THE DESIREDANCHORAGE AND CLICK ON ‘Open’


THE SAVED ANCHORAGE IS DISPLAYED

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERS

Why Layers?

Temporary information during a sessionthat can be displayed at will

Permanent information in the programthat can be displayed at will

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERSOn OpenCPN open the Route Managerand click on the ‘Layers’ tab


Click on the ‘Temporary Layer’

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERSThe ‘Import GPX File’ window opens. Navigate to the fileyou want to have in the temporary layer, highlight it andclick on ‘Open’ In this case the Philippine Anchorages


The file appears under the Layers tab. Click on‘List contents’ to display the anchorages underthe ‘Waypoints’ tab.


The anchorages appear as waypoints and are shownon the chart with the anchorage symbols


If you close OpenCPN and reopen it the temporarylayer is no longer there .. hence ‘temporary’


For layers to be permanently available they mustbe placed deep within the computer system

The location is dependent on the Windows operating system … i.e. Windows XP, 7 or 8 butThe OpenCPN program helps you find the location !!


In all cases of Windows on OpenCPN click on the ‘About OpenCPN’ icon (book with ? on the cover)

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERSThe Layers folder will be installed at the OpenCPN ‘Config file’ Location e.g. for XP @ C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\opencpn

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERSAnd for Windows 7 and 8 it will be @ C:\ProgramData\opencpn

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERSIf you have trouble finding these locations it will benecessary to make a setting in Windows Explorer toshow hidden files. Go to ‘Tools’ and click on ‘FolderOptions …’ Then on the ‘View’ tab check the button‘Show hidden files, folders orDrives’. Click ‘OK’


Here (for XP) the ‘opencpn’ folder is opened

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERSCreate a new folder ‘Layers’ within the ‘opencpn’ folder

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERSIt’s only necessary to create this folder once.All future layer information will be placed in this folder.


I have now navigated to a .gpx file of ‘All PhilippineAnchorages’ and copied that file to the clipboard.


Return to the ‘Layers’ folder and right click on it


Paste the file into the ‘Layers’ folder


The anchorage file appears in the ‘Layers’ folder

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERSThe anchorages are now shown on the Layers tabof OpenCPN


To show the contents of the anchorage file underThe ‘Waypoints’ tab, click on the button ‘List contents’


Each of the anchorages is listed here and displayed on the chart

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERSTo go to a waypoint location on the chart,click on the button ‘Center View’

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERSThe anchorage is displayed on the chart

Exploring OpenCPN – LAYERSANY .gpx file can be put in the Layers folder. Here Ihave some information about currents in the Philippines


As before, the file is copied ….


… pasted into the ‘Layers’ folder …


… and when OpenCPN is launched it appears underthe ‘Layers’ tab


The information about current is shown at the circles,easily displayed or not using the Route Manager


POINTS TO REMEMBER

ANY .gpx file can be put in a layer.This includes routes, tracks, anchorages and otherInformation that has been saved in the .gpx format.

Waypoints in a layer are locked and cannot be changed.This prevents the unplanned movement of a waypoint while clicking on the screen. It is therefore not necessaryto lock waypoints in ‘Options/User Interface’ and willallow you to modify the location of waypoints whilemaking routes without unchecking this option.

Exploring OpenCPN - GRIB filesTHIS DISCUSSION ASSUMES YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY SAVED GRIB FILESAND THE GRIB PLUGIN IS INSTALLED IN OpenCPN. AT Options/Plugins CHECK THAT THE GRIB PLUGIN IS ENABLED AND THEPREFERENCES ARE AS SHOWN. THEN CLICK ON ‘OK’

Exploring OpenCPN - GRIB files

ON THE OpenCPN TOOLBAR CLICK ON THE GRIB ICON

CLICK ON Open File

Exploring OpenCPN - GRIB filesNAVIGATE TO THE LOCATION OF SAVED GRIB FILES. IN THIS CASE I HAVESAVED zyGriB FILES AS SHOWN. NOTE THE LOCATION IN WINDOWS 7

SELECT THE FILE ANDTHEN CLICK ON ‘Open’

Exploring OpenCPN - GRIB files

THE DISPLAY SHOWS WIND BARBS AND IN THE BOX INFORMATION ATTHE CURSOR. THE WAVE SYMBOLS SHOW SET BY THE DOUBLEARROWS AND DRIFT BY THE ‘BARB’ .. e.g. 2 kts

Exploring OpenCPNVoyage data recording

Use VDR for AIS Simulation - Run VDR to play AIS NMEA files. Or... use the VDRplugin to record your passages and replay them later! These are just a few examples,of how to use this versatile plugin.

When VDR is activated in ToolBar -> Options -> Plugins -> VDR, two Buttonsappear in the ToolBar

The left button is for recording, and leads to a "Choose file" dialog to select the fileto record to.

The right button is for playing an existing file, and also leads to a dialog where thefile must be selected.

PARAPHRASING THE OpenCPN MANUAL:

Exploring OpenCPNVoyage data recording

Once selected VDR starts to play the file, the small dialog below shows on the screen.

You can control the speed with the upper slide. Far left is slow, natural speed, while moving the slide to the far right equals fast forwarding.

The lower part of the dialog shows the progress.

Exploring OpenCPN

I hope this has been useful . It tookseveral bottles of red wine to complete.I will blame any mistakes on the wine.Questions? Email: [email protected]

Terry Sargenthttp://yachtvalhalla.net22 Sept 2014

BYE !

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