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Miniplex-2Wi, the new WiFi multiplexer for iPad and iPhone

The company has just introduced ShipModul on its website its new wireless multiplexer, the Miniplex-2Wi. This device comes in direct competition to the IMUX Brookhouse, on which I wrote several posts on this blog, but penalized since early 2011 by delivery prohibitive for France.
The Miniples-2Wi only regards boats owners with NMEA 0183 and/or RAYMARINE SeaTalk instruments. For boats with a network [...]

Seasmart WiFi connects the NMEA 2000 on your iPhone

Le SeaSmart WiFi, iPadNav.fr presented by the Paris Boat Show last week, allows a WiFi connection to iPad , iPhone or any other computer via WiFi to a NMEA 2000.
Designed by Chetco Digital Instruments, Brookings, Oregon (USA), SeaSmart is a wireless transmitter NMEA2000 and NMEA0183 compatible consists of an USB/serial gateway, WiFi transmitter 802.11 b/g and an embedded CGI/AJAX web server. Compatible with browsers [...]

Iridium - iPad connection – is coming out !

I dont like to advertise products or functions before they are available, but in this case the subject can guide choices or postponements of purchase among potential users.
Iridium announced on last 7 Last September the creation of a free service called Iridium AxcessPoint Mail & Web will be available before the end of the year 2011. This will be a mail and web compression service, hosted by Iridium, [...]

Installing an iMux aboard "Lady Jane"

My Fischer 37 "Lady Jane" is equipped at the base of a conventional antenna Raymarine GPS, the trio wind, depth, speed instruments, and a multi chartplotter / Radar C70 :

In November 2010, reading this blog I have a strong incentive to get a multiplexer. Control its navigation and see instruments displayed with iPhone is really a challenging project. The navigation software is very iNavX [...]

Connect instrument to an iPad with SEAMate 1A Lite WiFi

In the spring 2008, Mølgaard Marine House Company has designed one of the first multiplexers WiFi for connecting the pleasure of navigation instruments and an AIS to an embedded computer. If this product is still available today, however, it is surpassed by several recent products, already mentioned in this blog (¹), more efficient and cheaper.
Nevertheless, for holders of this unit, it is possible to configure [...]

A test onboard with Navigation Mac

During a weekend of January a little sad, we joined the port of L'Herbaudière, Isle of Noirmoutier, via the picturesque Gois passage at low tide.
We, that is to say, a boating journalist, my wife and myself.
Greeted by two « natural » of the country, Henry and Jean-Etienne. The latter giving us a superb Oceanis 347 for the first test board, in France, navigation applications on a Mac, iPad and iPhone. [...]

iMux, a multiplexer WiFi for iPad

More and more great ! After Wi-SP Digi Connect, l’iAIS de Digital Yacht, here's IMUX of Brookhouse.
The iMux is a multiplexer (*) NMEA 0183 able to transmit in WiFi data from the instruments connected to it (GPS, Navigation, AIS) to an iPad, iPhone, or any computer featured with a built-in WiFi receiver. All navigation applications receiving NMEA data 0183 through a serial port, USB or Bluetooth [...]

Receive AIS data wirelessly with iNavX

I explained, in a recent post, on receiving NMEA data from instruments on board without going through a Mac (or PC) aboard. It is now possible to do the same for receiving AIS data with an iPad or iPhone.
Digital Yacht has developed a new AIS receiver for use with mobile devices from Apple. iAIS, is its name, WiFi transmits the [...]

MacENC, iNavX and TCP / IP

Despite the online Help iNavX and various tutorials on the subject, a lot of requests received and complexity of subject imposed on me a quick explanation.
The TCP/IP protocol
TCP/IP stands for Transmission Control Protocol / Internet protocol and pronounced « T-C-P-I-P ».
TCP/IP is a communication protocol, consists of a set of standardized rules of communication on the Internet and is based on a technique of providing a unique IP address to each computer on the network [...]

Build a stand-alone Ad-Hoc network aboard without Mac

iNavX, installed on iPhone/iPod Touch or iPad, can use the NMEA-0183 issued by the navigation instruments via WiFi, instead of using the « Location Services » integrated with the iPhone 3G / 4 or ‘iPad WiFi 3 G (GPS or cellular).