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rgleason / dashboard_tactics_pi

OpenCPN dashboard built-in plugin merger with external tactics_pi plugin
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Unable to display engine RPM #23

Open Kupofty opened 1 month ago

Kupofty commented 1 month ago

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Problem

Publishing XDR sentence to OpenCPN from C++ software. OpenCPN dashboard tactics is supposed to display the engine's RPM (Eng1 RPM) but nothing is displayed.

My NMEA sentence is the following (seen from NMEA Debug Window) : $IIXDR,T,my_rpm_value,R,ENGINE#0*checksum<0x0D><0x0A> I also tried with "ENGINE#1", "ENGINE0", "ENGINE1" but nothing changed.

I didn't find any documentation for this XDR sentence & plugin (links are dead or does not provide an example with the desired values like type, unit, name) so I used the following doc : https://github.com/SignalK/signalk-to-nmea0183/issues/99 thinking it would work the same way. Any help would be appreciated !

NB : This works fine with the "Main RPM" gauge from engine dashboard plugin

rgleason commented 1 month ago

Kupofty, This plugin is slowly becoming depreciated, however many of the Tactics features (similar to Sailsteer) need to be implemented in Dashboard and DashboardSK. I am very much hoping they will be implemented.

I am just a maintainer of this plugin and have managed to keep it built for multiple OS for quite awhile. I hope that more capable programmers will move this code into Dashboard and DashboardSK soon!!!

Then perhaps we can move the relevant documentation into those plugins documentation.

Thanks for your report.

Kupofty commented 1 month ago

Hello rgleason,

Thanks for maintaining this plugin. I understand, I'll wait and hope these features will be integrated in the dashboard plugin ! Some of the widgets are super useful and missing from the main dashboard..

Best regards