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opencpn-radar-pi / radar_pi

Radar plugin for OpenCPN with support for Navico and some Garmin and Raymarine radars
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Raymarine support #77

Closed BrannJoly closed 6 years ago

BrannJoly commented 6 years ago

Hi, I was wondering if you had considered supporting Raymarine radars ? I have one, and I'm thinking about looking into it, but maybe there's a good reason why it hasn't been done before ?

Cheers, Brann

keesverruijt commented 6 years ago

None of the current developers have a Raymarine radar, so we can’t work on this.

Feel free to implement it yourself, it is now much easier than before. The most difficult part is analyzing the traffic between the radar and the MFD using an IP packet analyzer such as tcpdump. Once you have this, we’re willing to help you set up the code and fix bugs, but testing needs to be done by someone with access to the physical radar.

An alternative, if you are not a C++ developer, is to donate a Raymarine MFD and radar to one of the existing developers :-)

keesverruijt commented 6 years ago

See #79 .