Sailing vs Motoring
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I don't know how many would find this useful, but I'd like to see it for my voyages: A tag that highlights when the engine is running. This could be generated by setting a motoring flag whenever the engine is running above a certain RPM, and the boat is moving. It would be assumed that IF a log is being actively recorded AND the engine is NOT running then the boat is sailing.
It would only be useful for those boats with the engine connected to the NMEA2000 network, and hence to SignalK.
I also might get a little bit more complex for catamarans that frequently motorsail on one engine. Maybe: IF (Engine0 RPM > X OR Engine1 RPM > X) THEN Motoring, ELSE Sailing
Bill Kinney
S/V Harmonie -
Hi Bill, I don't think you are alone, this has come up a few times before in slightly different shapes and forms but it is essentially the same ask and feature. Saillogger needs to have a mechanism to capture engine information and statistics, whether the engine(s) is/are on or off, capturing engine hours, temperatures when needed etc. Sailboaters and motorboaters differ a bit in the types of information to collect and the level of detail but the ultimate ask is the same.
We do agree this will be a cool addition and we want to get to it. One practical handicap is that we don't have an engine sensor on our current boat and we are obsessive about testing and using features ourselves before releasing them. But this will change in the coming months and we expect to have hand-on experience with some of these sensors and information.
So net-net, yes this will be a very useful feature and it will come, though will not probably be immediate. There are a few features we have in mind that are ahead of this. Thank you for the thoughtful suggestion, appreciate it as always!
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Interestingly, what prompted my ask is that I replaced our old, dying, tachometer with a new Veratron OceanView tach that takes standard analog engine instrument feeds, and digitizes them to NMEA2000. The cost was reasonable, and it let us cleanup our old instrument panel a lot. Now that we actually have engine RPM, Oil pressure, engine hours, and coolant temperature available on the network it triggered my realization that logging some of that would be helpful.
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Hello,
I would love to have this feature too !Maybe you can rely on this plugin, which already provides informations about boat state :
https://github.com/meri-imperiumi/signalk-autostateYou just have to get the "navigation.state" path to know if boat is motoring.
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@admin Hi Admin, and thanks again for the assistance you gave me yesterday after the plugin 4.2.1 did not install I was worried. Saillogger has now become a travel companion that cannot be missed. Last year I also made the same request, to have in the report of a trip the possibility of seeing the Distance/duration field divided by sail and engine. Also when I click on a point of my route to be able to customize the data of that telemetry (eg TWS TWA AWA SOG etc). I think that being able to customize the list of fields that Saillogger stores on a point of the log should not be a heavy development so each navigator can populate his path with the data he prefers. Regarding the engine data transducer to N2K I have had the YachtDevice one for a year and it works well. So if you allow me the final question, where are we on these new features? Thanks a lot
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@admin Hi, I wanted to offer my services as a beta tester for experimental plugins that would test this new feature. I installed the sensor that displays RPM, pressure, and other engine information on SK, and I also added it to Saillogger as data to monitor, and it works (obviously). If you'd like to test this new feature on me, I'm available. Thanks.
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Hey there - I have several analog to NMEA 2000 senders/products and would be happy to ship you guys one for testing if you'd like one! I also would love to see this feature.
