Hi!
We just went out for a four hour sail today. While we were out, I noticed that the realtime monitoring feature was working.
Then we got back to the slip. I left the raspberry PI running signalK on. After we put the canvas on the boat, I turned off the cockpit MFD, which is the GPS source for the NMEA network.
Now I see under Monitoring > Realtime, that spillover thinks that the voyage is still under way, and the last reading from the boat was 29 minutes ago.
When I look at the signalk sailloger plugin, I see:
0 entries in queue, last connection to the server was 29 minutes ago.
That's roughly the time that I turned off the MFD.
So a few questions:
- If I want to monitor windspeed, direction, temperature, do I need the MFD on so that there's a GPS source?
- Do I have to do anything to "close" the trip? If I had left the GPS on, would that have automatically closed the trip after not moving for a certain amount of time?
- Is there a way to predict how long it takes for the voyage to show in the logs? Does it depend on having a GPS source for the SignalK server?