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UPDATE 2: Not sure what happened but now I am seeing all of the Electrical Switch/Battery fields which were previously not present.

UPDATE: I noticed I had 2 different devices reporting as battery.0, 1 of which was the YDRI. I was able to change that to 4. So I can now see current and voltage for the bilge pump. However, if I try to add those batteries to the monitoring setup page, they do not show under available fields in the drop down.

I have been playing with this issue on/off for maybe 2 years. I am trying to monitor run time of my bilge pumps. I have a Yacht Device Run Indicator installed. This monitors Voltage and Current for each of the 4 bilge pumps. It also supports Virtual Switches that I can turn on/off based on rules. ATM the moment I am just trying to see how I can view this data in SL. In Monitoring, If I add a section then go to add a field, it gives me an option of "electrical.switches.bank.107.Port Bilge Eng. Current.state" That label had to come from me but I can no longer figure out where that was set. I have the Virtual Switch plugin installed which creates Virtual Switches starting at 107. In the data browser I can see electrical.switches.bank.1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 which I think is the native 4 switches for my 4 bilge pumps and electrical.switches.bank.107.1, 107.2, 107.3, 107.4 which are the Virtual switches associated with the plugin that I enabled. None of these appear as options when attempting to add a data point. Any insight is appreciated.

I appear to have it working. Thank You for your assistance.

It turns out I needed to install the "NMEA 2000 Virtual Switch" plugin.
After I did this I see the data in the browser. I then went to Saillogger to add a section for monitoring thisswitch.
I select other as the type, when I go to add the field, the options do not include any field names that support digital switches.
i.e. electrical.switches.bank.107 Bilge Eng. Voltage.state
I know I must be missing a step. And Thank You

Yacht Devices responded to my inquiry with several questions for Saillogger. I'll add that below. It is a little over my head so I am hoping it makes more sense to you.

YDRI-04 can reports ON/OFF load status via NMEA 2000 standard Digital
Switching PGN 127501 "Binary Status Report"

according to parameters set in YDRI-04 Digital Switching channels rules,

refer device manual

https://www.yachtd.com/downloads/ydri04.pdf

Section V. "Device Configuration and Settings"

Subsection 1. "Setting channel rules"

Recommended workflow:

• check/set YDRI-04 rules, I suggest to set up ON/OFF states based on
  pump current

• confirm YDRI-04 correctly reports target DS channel ON/OFF state via
  analyzing live Digital Switching PGN 127501 "Binary Status Report" data,
  e.g. with NMEA Reader software or our CAN Log Viewer software

• contact SailLogger maintainer to confirm if they support Digital
  Switching PGN 127501 and how to map it to Pump State display.

Also, you can directly monitor PGN 127508 "Battery Status", voltage and
current.

• contact SailLogger maintainer to confirm if they support those.

New installation. Appears working with all default monitoring points. I added a Yacht Devices Run Indicator to monitor the 4 bilge pumps. My goal being able to know how often they maybe cycling, I can't seem to locate the NMEA messages in the Data Browser so I can create a new monitoring group.

Follow up. Everything appears to be good but I have no logs making it upstream. Boat has internet. I have the saillogger plugin enabled and logging set to yes. Any thoughts how to trouble shoot.

That did the trick, Thank You

I messed up at step 1. As I did not stop it first before deleting the directory. How bad was that?
I am a bit unclear what you mean when you say download the SignalK plugin. To get SignalK I updated to the large firmware on the Cerbo. Do you need me to update the firmware again?

Brand New install Cerbo GX
I get the following error:
Failed to start: Could not locate binding file. Tried: -> /data/conf/signal...

Any thoughts on where to start. Also, and maybe because it isnt running it shows up in the app store as an option to install. I would try to reinstall it but have not figured out how to remove it.

Thank You