Saillogger reporting issue with ais name in logs

[jimholthaus]

Saillogger was logging errors on ship names, probably because someone has a misconfigured AIS. When the error was encountered, it would not send any AIS data. Here is the log snippet:

Sep 13 21:36:27 2026-09-13T21:36:27.751Z signalk-saillogger Updating AIS vessel 367302540 details 
Sep 13 21:36:27 Uncaught exception: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'name') at refreshAisData (/home/node/.signalk/node_modules/signalk-saillogger/index.js:448:55) at sendAisTargets (/home/node/.signalk/node_modules/signalk-saillogger/index.js:676:5) at Timeout._onTimeout (/home/node/.signalk/node_modules/signalk-saillogger/index.js:199:7) at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:685:17) at processTimers (node:internal/timers:618:7) 
Sep 13 21:36:27 TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'name') at refreshAisData (/home/node/.signalk/node_modules/signalk-saillogger/index.js:448:55) at sendAisTargets (/home/node/.signalk/node_modules/signalk-saillogger/index.js:676:5) at Timeout._onTimeout (/home/node/.signalk/node_modules/signalk-saillogger/index.js:199:7) at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:685:17) at processTimers (node:internal/timers:618:7)

I fixed the issue (I think) with this code snippet:

cd ~/.signalk/node_modules/signalk-saillogger
cp index.js index.js.bak
sed -i "s/aisShipType?\.value\.name/aisShipType?.value?.name/; s/aisShipType?\.value\.id/aisShipType?.value?.id/" index.js
grep -n "aisShipType" index.js
'

It would be nice if this were merged into the source so my fix persists, or tell me I've done something terrible?

[admin]

Thanks @jimholthaus , good catch and good fix! We just published a v5.3.2 of the plugin that fixes this.

Thanks for the report.