BoatBuddy 0.2.0

A suite of tools to help collecting NMEA0183 and other marine metrics in a digital logbook format

BoatBuddy

A suite of tools to help collecting NMEA0183 and other marine metrics in a digital logbook format.

Installation

BoatBuddy can be installed via pip or an equivalent via:

$ pip install BoatBuddy

Features

• Ability to generate Excel and / or CSV logs
• Generate GPX file with GPS coordinates combined with timestamps
• Ability to generate a summary log for each session
• Sessions can be delimited by the NMEA server availability

Usage

$ python -m BoatBuddy OUTPUT_DIRECTORY [options]

Where OUTPUT_DIRECTORY points to the path where you want the logs to be written to. This will start monitoring the systems connected on your network and outputting log entries on disk (at specified intervals). At the end of each session a summary file (if specified) is generated.

You can listen to NMEA0183 events from a server on your network by providing the server IP address

$ python -m BoatBuddy OUTPUT_DIRECTORY --nmea-server-ip=NMEA_SERVER_IP

You can also capture data transmitted via Modbus TCP from your victron products

$ python -m BoatBuddy OUTPUT_DIRECTORY --victron-server-ip=VICTRON_SERVER_IP

Don't forget to specify a medium format for the files to be written (Excel, CSV or GPX)

For the full list of available options

$ python -m BoatBuddy --help