rgleason / watchdog_pi

watchdog plugin for opencpn
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RFE: Standard Tracking Feature #98

Open rgleason opened 10 months ago

rgleason commented 10 months ago

PA2WLT, Github (Werner Toonk) added Rudder Alarm, asks

Another thing that I'd like is a standard tracking function.

Now more and more Cruisers to have starling, I consider is very helpful if one can automatically send a tracepoint every hour (5, 10, 15, 30 .. minutes) to some email address / tracker page.

All commercial initiatives have their own paid tracking pages and devices.

Whereas it would Be great to offer this as part of the open source version. I currently use a Iridium Go for This, that is a very expensive solution though. I have no C++ dev environment on my Win machine, Perhaps I should get that in place so I could start working on that. Yes, a good start. See https://opencpn.org/wiki/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=opencpn:dev_manual Complete builds using Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition or Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition