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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.

Thank you. Looks like there is no navigation.headingTrue coming from the boat. Maybe you have navigation.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:

Curious 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,
The Saillogger Team

Hi @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.

Anchored 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:

• 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
  Each update summarizes the last 15 minutes: the average goes out as sustained wind, the peak as the gust. A lull at the moment of publishing no longer hides what actually blew through.

• 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.

Turn on your Windy station

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,
The Saillogger Team

Ok, 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.

All good, hope the issue is resolved!

Hi @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?

Hi @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.

Thanks @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.

Hi @tdnooij , they should both be shown. Note in the screenshot that the status is "Left Prince Rupert Yacht Club, sailing" and 16.6nm and 3h 19m below the boat name.

Do you see something different?

@seeu are you using the new or the classical UI? There were a few bugs that may be related. Regardless, glad everything is working!

Do you use NoForeignLand? We certainly do, and we love what Steve and Helena have built for cruisers!

Saillogger can now keep your boat's position on their map for you. While she is reporting here, you no longer need to update it separately in NoForeignLand.

Here is what is new:

• One key turns it on
  On NoForeignLand, open Boat settings, then Boat tracking, then API Key, and copy the key. Paste it into NoForeignland API Key under Settings > Integrations. The field saves itself.

• Updates about once an hour
  Your first position can take up to an hour to appear. After that, your latest position goes to NoForeignLand about once an hour while your boat is reporting to Saillogger.

• Sitting still does not fill the map with repeats
  Lying at anchor or at a dock does not keep resending the same position, apart from an occasional check-in so you do not look as though you have gone quiet.

• A position, and nothing else
  Your logbook, journal, photos and instrument readings stay in Saillogger.

This is optional, and nothing happens until you paste a key. To stop, clear the field and leave it empty.

Open your Integrations settings

Full steps: How NoForeignLand publishing works

Already using both, or watching for the first update? Reply here and tell us how it is working for you.

Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,
The Saillogger Team

Can you provide more information? What is showing up if anything? If you can share the link, we can take a look.

Thanks for the detailed report, @digger.

A few things would help us to analyze this further:

1. A screenshot of the black screen. Sounds odd, but the exact shade tells us whether the page loaded and the app failed to start, or whether the browser engine inside the app died before drawing anything.

2. On the Pixel (assuming what you tried was the app), open saillogger.com/app in Chrome (the normal browser) while signed in. Does it load there? That separates a problem with the app's built-in browser from a problem with the device.

3. On the Orca Display 2, is that our Android app or the website in a browser? If it is the app, could you check Settings > Apps > Android System WebView and tell us the version number?

4. Is there a way to see the browser console, system logs, or any kind of javascript errors on these systems? Anything that you can share in the form of an error would be extremely helpful.

Saillogger’s modern interface is ready for a shakedown cruise! And we would love your help putting it through its paces.

This faster, rebuilt experience brings your boat, live view, logbook, journal, stats, and settings together in a fresh design for your phone and laptop.

Here is what to expect:

• A fresh view, with the same intelligent Saillogger engine underneath
  Your account, boat, logs, photos, and settings stay right where they are. You are only changing how Saillogger looks and feels.

• Completely opt-in during Early Access
  Classic remains the default. The modern view turns on only when you choose it under Settings > General > Experience.

• An early preview still finding its sea legs
  There may be bugs or rough edges, and a few screens may still take you to the classic view.

• An easy way back
  If you need the familiar view, open Settings and choose Classic. You can also select Switch back to the classic site from the modern app’s More menu.

Your choice follows your account across the web and mobile apps. If you share public boat pages, visitors will see the modern look too, while all links you have already shared will continue to work.

Try the modern Saillogger preview

If you find a bug, please reply in this thread with what happened. A screenshot and the device or browser you were using will help us get it shipshape faster.

Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,
The Saillogger Team

Friends and family often want to know where you are, when you left, and when you arrived. They usually do not need their own Saillogger account or a boat to log. They simply want an easy way to follow yours.

That is who AIS Fleet is built for.

AIS Fleet is Saillogger’s companion service for people who want to follow boats. It uses Saillogger’s broad AIS network and gives each follower their own live map and Following list.

Here is how it works:

• Follow your boat by MMSI

  Your followers sign in to AIS Fleet with their email, search for your full 9-digit MMSI, and select Follow. They can also search by vessel name, call sign, or IMO number.

• See your boat on their own map

  Once followed, your boat stays in their Following list and appears by name whenever a recent position is available. There is nothing new to install aboard your boat.

• Receive departure and arrival updates

  Followers can receive an email whenever your boat departs or arrives, so they can keep up without repeatedly checking the map.

• Follow the journey, not just the position

  When your Saillogger sharing settings allow it, AIS Fleet can also show your shared voyage track, journal entries, notes, and photos.

• Use it as a standalone AIS service

  AIS Fleet is not limited to Saillogger boats. Anyone can use the live map to get visibility into AIS traffic across the broad Saillogger network, search for specific vessels, and build their own Following list.

• Stay in control of your privacy

  Public boats can be followed, password-protected boats require the access password, and private boats remain private. AIS Fleet followers appear on your Saillogger Followers page, and you are notified when someone new follows you.

To make your boat available, turn on Sharing and Live Tracking & Monitoring in Saillogger. Then copy the MMSI shown in your Sharing settings and send it to your followers along with this link:

Follow a boat on AIS Fleet

That is all they need to get started. No Saillogger account and nothing to install.

Have someone who regularly asks where you are? Send them your MMSI and AIS Fleet, then let us know how it works for your crew.

Smooth boating and happy Saillogging,
The Saillogger Team

Mk2 is a good improvement over Mk1, it also has a galvanically isolated CAN port (only can0), which should be preferred to can1.

@sirox , geofence alarms trigger pushover notifications. If you configure pushover, you should receive them.

Yes, please use https://assets.saillogger.com/static/app/saillogger.apk