Hi Steve, unfortunately, Windy station IDs are scoped to API keys and are immutable. The Signal K plugin uses your API key, while Saillogger uses a separate API key, which makes migration impossible.
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windy integration - directionThank you. Looks like there is no
navigation.headingTruecoming from the boat. Maybe you havenavigation.headingMagnetic?Regardless, this is an easy fix, you should be able to calculate headingTrue from headingMagnetic using the derived-data plugin. Here is an example:
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📱 The AIS Fleet mobile app is here, in open beta for iPhone and iPadCurious about the boats around you even when you are not aboard? Want to follow your friends' boats as they make their way around the world? Or just looking for an easy way to let your own followers keep up with your adventures on the water?
We announced AIS Fleet a while back, and today we are pleased to follow it with the beta of the AIS Fleet mobile app. It brings all of AIS Fleet to your pocket with intuitive controls, one place for vessel watching. And when you spot a beautiful boat out there, just snap a photo and add it to her gallery!
The app is feature rich: everything the web version does, and then some. Aboard your own boat it can also connect to your local AIS receiver over the cabin Wi-Fi and show you the boats around you, which is the easiest way we know to see what is happening at dock or at anchor.
You do not need a boat of your own, or a Saillogger account, to use it.
Join the open beta on TestFlight
Have questions or ideas? Reply here and tell us how you are using it.
Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,
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windy integration - directionHi @upstart , this is most likely related to heading information being available. In order to normalize the wind direction, we need heading. It normally comes form the autopilot.
Could you turn on your instruments (including the auto-pilot), make sure you have heading in Signal K data browser and let us know? We can take a look.
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🌬️ Windy Stations Are Back, and Open to Many More BoatsAnchored somewhere the nearest weather station is a long way off? Your masthead already knows what is blowing out there, and your boat can now put that on the map for everyone else.
Saillogger's Windy.com integration has been rebuilt after Windy retired the API it ran on, and it takes far less instrumentation to qualify than it used to.
Here is what is new:
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A wind sensor is enough
The old rules asked for true wind direction and an outside temperature before the switch would even turn on. Now a single usable reading qualifies: wind, outside temperature, humidity or barometric pressure. Whatever your boat measures is published and the rest is simply left off, so a boat with nothing but an anemometer makes a perfectly good station. -
Wind over the ground, worked out for you
Nothing to configure and no extra sensor to buy. Saillogger combines your masthead's apparent wind with the boat's heading, course and speed to produce the wind a weather map actually wants. If a reading cannot be converted without guessing, the wind value is left out rather than invented, and your temperature, humidity and pressure still publish. -
Sustained wind and gusts, not one lucky sample
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One switch, and the station sets itself up
Turn on Windy under Settings > Integrations. Saillogger registers the station for you, and its windy.com address appears on that row shortly afterwards. Windy takes up to 15 minutes to activate a new station and discards anything sent while it does, so your first reading lands on the update after that. -
Your station follows the boat
It re-registers where you are once you have properly moved, and it goes quiet instead of presenting hours-old weather as current when your boat is offline. Nobody navigating by that map gets a stale reading with your boat's name on it.
A Windy station is public by design: your boat name and position appear on the windy.com map, which is the whole point of filling a gap where there is no other station for miles. That is separate from your Saillogger sharing settings, so treat it as a public position. It stays off until you turn it on, the switch is disabled until your boat has sent a weather reading Windy can use, and the master Sharing switch turns it on and off too, so check Integrations after you move that.
If your boat was publishing to Windy before this, it may come back at a new station address. Reply here if you spot a second pin carrying your boat's name and we will clear the old one.
Available now on the web and in the mobile apps.
Full steps: How Windy publishing works
Lying somewhere the forecast never quite gets right? Turn it on and reply here with your station link.
Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,
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new look Motoring barOk, we will look into this. Engine sensors we have and tested otherwise do not normally send data when the engine is off but it may indeed be the case.
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new look Motoring barHi @upstart , your interpretation is right but this looks good indeed. One thing that could possibly explain this if the engine had its power (i.e. the ignition on) during the sail. If the engine kept emitting engine hours but those hours were not increasing, Saillogger would think you would still be motoring.
Is it possible that was the case?
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New look journal entry missingHi @upstairs this is not about the new look, journal entries require you to set an initial log for your cruise mode. This is explained in the documentation: https://saillogger.com/docs/journal-and-notes/#a-blank-journal
Please take a look and let us know if it doesn't address the issue.
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Multiple home ports based on dates/timesThanks @stevemitchell , having changed home ports a lot (as you know) , totally understand the use-case and the need. Let me look into it, there is some data modeling required for it to reflect in all stats.