Comments on: OpenCPN on Windows 8

By: Petr Šimon

Petr Šimon — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:25:41 +0000

Do you have wifi or data connectivity? If that’s the case, you have to turn them off to get proper gnss position. The windows8 location api uses the wifi and cell location in preference to gnss.
Let me know if that’s not the problem 😉
Cheers
Petr

By: Audun

Audun — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 00:16:57 +0000

Hi, looks like R6 still might have some bugs?
In opencpn4 these sentences place the boat far from my real position?
In the nmea debug window i see that opencpn recieves data.
Windows 8.1
When I check position on another device it seems like R6 is not reading my position correctly – MSmap sw places me at the correct position. Other GPS data sw reports different lat/lon than R6 for my current position.
Any hints apprechiated! (sorry for typos- no keyboard/mice)

(norwegian regional settings)
29.01.2015 00:17:42 +01:00 sending NMEA:
$GPRMC,111742,A,5930.44,N,01041.57,E,,,280115,,*1B
29.01.2015 00:18:13 +01:00 sending NMEA:
$GPRMC,111813,A,5930.44,N,01041.59,E,,,280115,,*1E
29.01.2015 00:18:43 +01:00 sending NMEA:
$GPRMC,111843,A,5930.44,N,01041.58,E,,,280115,,*1A
29.01.2015 00:19:14 +01:00 sending NMEA:
$GPRMC,111914,A,5930.44,N,01041.59,E,,,280115,,*18
29.01.2015 00:17:42 +01:00 sending NMEA:
$GPRMC,111742,A,5930.44,N,01041.57,E,,,280115,,*1B
29.01.2015 00:18:13 +01:00 sending NMEA:
$GPRMC,111813,A,5930.44,N,01041.59,E,,,280115,,*1E
29.01.2015 00:18:43 +01:00 sending NMEA:
$GPRMC,111843,A,5930.44,N,01041.58,E,,,280115,,*1A
29.01.2015 00:19:14 +01:00 sending NMEA:
$GPRMC,111914,A,5930.44,N,01041.59,E,,,280115,,*18
1/29/2015 12:24:51 AM +01:00 sending NMEA:
$GPRMC,112451,A,5930.44,N,01041.58,E,,,280115,,*16
1/29/2015 12:25:22 AM +01:00 sending NMEA:
$GPRMC,112522,A,5930.44,N,01041.58,E,,,280115,,*13

By: Petr Šimon

Petr Šimon — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 00:21:27 +0000

Hey Roger, uff Glad you got it sorted out!
The name rings a bell, but it’s been a while…
Fair winds
Petr

By: Roger Wilson

Roger Wilson — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 04:54:03 +0000

Hello Petr

Just writing again to say I got the ship’s icon and gps working happily together. Don’t know why they weren’t speaking with each other before, but, now ship’s position and icon are good. Thank you very much for the software.
By the way, in Kudat did you see a boat on the hard named Creola? Linda is a friend of mine, hope she is handling things alright. The boat, as you may know, went on a reef on the way to Kudat. Cheers, Roger

By: Roger Wilson

Roger Wilson — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:14:07 +0000

Hello Petr,
Roger here, S/V Hanoah, in Panama. I have OpenCpn on a Lenovo Mix2 Win 8.1 I am using the r6 version of your program. The location updates every second! However the ship icon does not stay lighted up, mostly stays black and close but not correct position. Any ideas? Thank you. Roger

By: Petr Šimon

Petr Šimon — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 06:46:35 +0000

Hi Andrew,
my pleasure. Hope it works as intended
I did upgrade to 8.1. I’ve forgotten if I even gave it much thought, if I did, I’ve forgotten about it already.
Anyway, the upgrade shouldn’t affect the TCP server. It’s a standalone application, it was developed back at the time of v8 and seems to be working just fine on v8.1.
Cheers
Petr

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:41:47 +0000

Hi Petr, Just purchased a Asus VivoTab Smart tablet with Windows 8 and was really excited to find your TCP server that I can use with OpenCPN. One question: did you update your tablet to windows 8.1, and will your TCP server work with windows 8.1? I am trying to decide if I should update to 8.1 before loading your TCP server and OpenCPN.

Thanks so much!!

Andrew

By: Petr Šimon

Petr Šimon — Tue, 27 May 2014 05:31:24 +0000

That’s a great news. Have fun, but I see that you already do

By: feederfamily

feederfamily — Tue, 27 May 2014 01:46:58 +0000

Hello Petr,
this is great, I had R5beore and now with R6 it works perfectly.
Thanks a lot, Andreas

By: Petr Šimon

Petr Šimon — Sun, 25 May 2014 06:12:58 +0000

Hi,
it’s not all that difficult 😉
There was a problem with language settings. I tried to fix it few weeks ago. Do you have the latest version (https://bitbucket.org/petrsimon/geolocationtcp/downloads/GeolocationTCP-r6.exe) from bitbucket?