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seandepagnier / autopilot_route_pi

autopilot route plugin for opencpn
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Route Position Bearing: Console XTE, BRG and RNG no useful values #7

Open marcobergman opened 3 years ago

marcobergman commented 3 years ago

Route Position Bearing: The Console XTE, BRG and RNG are all unusable in this mode. I understand the XTE sent in the NMEA message is 0, but here, I still want to see it. BRG should not be capped to the Max Error Angle but always give me a heading to manually steer. And RNG should be range to next waypoint, that is, when I'm expected to make a heading change. This is all for situational awareness.

Raspberry Pi 4 version 10 buster OpenCPN 5.2.4 autopilot_route_pi-0.4.0.17-raspbian-armhf-10-buster-armhf/ from cloudsmith.io also happens when compiled from source testing method: https://github.com/marcobergman/ais_simulation

marcobergman commented 2 years ago

Forget about the BRG, that is now clear.

RNG also works in version 0.5, but normal range (second figure in RNG field) is always greater than actual range, which does not seem to be correct.

XTE is understood to be set to 0 in the APB message for Waypoint Bearing and Range Position Bearing, but still it would be useful to have the actual distance-to-track correctly shown in the console for situational awareness purposes.

rgleason commented 1 year ago

Marco is this fixed now? IF so, please close it!

marcobergman commented 1 year ago

No all these points have not been dealt with. I might have split them into separate issues, though. Is it wrong to leave this one open?

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rgleason commented 1 year ago

No, it ishould be left open. Thanks.