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The easiest, cheapest way to import engine data into a NMEA 2000 network is with a Veratron Oceanlink tachometer. It accepts analog feeds for tachometer, temperature, oil pressure, and outputs them (plus engine hours) to the nmea 2000 network. A bit of shopping and it can be found for less than $300, and only a bit of rewiring of the sensors is needed.

I am sure this capability is buried in here somehow…

We do deliveries on boats that are not our own. Occasionally those boats have Saillogger, but usually they do not. In either case, I have my own tablet with me that records our track and can export track information in GPX, KML or KMZ format.

What I am thinking I can do is create a second, virtual, boat in my account, named “Deliveries” and import the tracks to it. This will allow me to keep track of sea time a lot easier, the whole point of Saillogger!

I’m betting this is possible, the question is how to do the imports?

Bill Kinney
S/V Harmonie

Just a quick note to let you know your hard work on V4.0 is greatly appreciated! So many of the "it-would be nice-to-have" features turn up all at once. Now I get to p;ay with more data in a more useful format than I have had before!

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.

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