Hi,
I'm using an Acer Aspire one with 8GB SSD drive and upgraded to 1.5MB of RAM with Linux (Fedora). Running Seaclear under wine and it works like a charm... For GPS I'm using a globalsat BT GPS module (can't remember which one).
If you look at the Seaclear homepage you can see that he has made some changes to make it work better with wine. For the moment I cannot think of anything not working.
This setup us using about 10W with bluetooth dongle active. I'm using a 12V adaptor for charging while onboard.
I'll recommend this setup to anyone. The only downside I can think of is water damage.
Kind regards
Johan
Seaclear Charts
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Re: Seaclear Charts
Does anyone know if it is possible to "rotate" a chart in Sea Clear? Some of the charts are printed 90 degrees rotated to the words on the margins of the chart...specifically the chart for the Fernandina Beach area on the Georgia/Florida border.
The chart is "right way up" because the title of the chart is properly rotated...but the chart area is 90 degrees off of that.
I can use the EarthENCwebsite to view the chart in a better orientation but I was hoping to figure out how to do it with Sea Clear. If you haven't checked out the EarthENC website give it a look...pretty useful...especially since I can't get the NOAA website to work properly anymore...won't show the charts.
Thanks,
Jim
The chart is "right way up" because the title of the chart is properly rotated...but the chart area is 90 degrees off of that.
I can use the EarthENCwebsite to view the chart in a better orientation but I was hoping to figure out how to do it with Sea Clear. If you haven't checked out the EarthENC website give it a look...pretty useful...especially since I can't get the NOAA website to work properly anymore...won't show the charts.
Thanks,
Jim
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Re: Seaclear Charts
I have run into this with NOAA raster charts before, Jim. I think that it has to do with the skew setting in the .KAP file. It is usually cleared up with the next update of that chart. If you have a graphics program that can load a .BSB file, you could rotate it there and recalibrate with MapCal. Otherwise, just wait for the update.
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Re: Seaclear Charts
Sea clear is great. I saw a couple of comments that I can help with.
No need to learn what chart connects to the next chart. The program does it for you.
right click the edge of the chart and select, "charts">>"best chart" at it will get you the finest resolution chart in your file. I have three large scale maps that cover the eastern seaboard and I browse from there to get to whatever harbor/bay I am looking for.
If you right click and select "Charts>>on position" you'll get a listing of all charts that cover the point clicked. You can then see large scale or small scale charts. This really helps when there is a detailed harbor inset inside a harbor that is part of the sound.
Now I don't fear having hundreds of charts on my C: drive as I can browse them using the graphical nature of the actual tool. No need to know Founders rock to cousins cove or some such thing gets me the chart that includes Bimini (my dream sail)
No need to learn what chart connects to the next chart. The program does it for you.
right click the edge of the chart and select, "charts">>"best chart" at it will get you the finest resolution chart in your file. I have three large scale maps that cover the eastern seaboard and I browse from there to get to whatever harbor/bay I am looking for.
If you right click and select "Charts>>on position" you'll get a listing of all charts that cover the point clicked. You can then see large scale or small scale charts. This really helps when there is a detailed harbor inset inside a harbor that is part of the sound.
Now I don't fear having hundreds of charts on my C: drive as I can browse them using the graphical nature of the actual tool. No need to know Founders rock to cousins cove or some such thing gets me the chart that includes Bimini (my dream sail)
Re: Seaclear Charts via blue tooth
No need to go crazy with cables and adapters, I downloaded software that runs on the PC and adds a virtual serial port over bluetooth. I'm sure there is one that will do Serial to USB emulation
HW VSP3 - Virtual Serial Port
HW VSP is a software driver that adds a virtual serial port (e.g. COM5) to the operating system and redirects the data from this port via a TCP/IP network to another hardware interface, which is specified by its IP address and port number. HW VSP3 is an updated version of HW VSP that adds support of NT Services and 64 bit Windows 7.
I am trying to use the GPS from my android phone via bluetooth. And I am adapting the google earth instructions to fit sea clear. No success yet but I am close. The program sees the com connection so I know I am close.
1. Pair your phone with pc through bluetooth
2. Create a com port for bluetooth on your pc. Goto your bluetooth settings. Select the middle tab "COM Ports". Click Add... then ok. After this you should have a com port listed.
3. Start the Goops program you downloaded earlier. Goto options and select the com port you created in the previous step. Uncheck Autoconnect, Autoscan and Compress.
4. Now press Connect, GE should open and Goops will say opening COM"#": #- the number you selected
5. On your phone open BlueMNEA, press connect, your bluetooth pc should be listed, select it. If all went well it will establish a connection and you will then have gps on your pc. If it doesnt connect, often trying again will fix it. If not, something else is wrong.
HW VSP3 - Virtual Serial Port
HW VSP is a software driver that adds a virtual serial port (e.g. COM5) to the operating system and redirects the data from this port via a TCP/IP network to another hardware interface, which is specified by its IP address and port number. HW VSP3 is an updated version of HW VSP that adds support of NT Services and 64 bit Windows 7.
I am trying to use the GPS from my android phone via bluetooth. And I am adapting the google earth instructions to fit sea clear. No success yet but I am close. The program sees the com connection so I know I am close.
1. Pair your phone with pc through bluetooth
2. Create a com port for bluetooth on your pc. Goto your bluetooth settings. Select the middle tab "COM Ports". Click Add... then ok. After this you should have a com port listed.
3. Start the Goops program you downloaded earlier. Goto options and select the com port you created in the previous step. Uncheck Autoconnect, Autoscan and Compress.
4. Now press Connect, GE should open and Goops will say opening COM"#": #- the number you selected
5. On your phone open BlueMNEA, press connect, your bluetooth pc should be listed, select it. If all went well it will establish a connection and you will then have gps on your pc. If it doesnt connect, often trying again will fix it. If not, something else is wrong.
Re: Seaclear Charts Wine
I have been trying to get BlueNext GPS dongle to "speak" to SeaClear. SeaClear under wine works perfectly under wine apart from the GPS feature. I have created a symlink in .wine/dosdevices using ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /home/donald/.wine/dosdevices/COM4 - I have changed ownership to me sudo chown donald /dev/ttyUSB0 and sudo chown donald /home/donald/.wine/dosdevices/COM4. The dongle flashes green which indicates its working and xgps produces satellite info and lat, long, time data. In Seaclear I have changed Tools Properties Comm to Com 4 Baud 9600 and saved it. I keep getting message Could Not Open Communication Port 4 I see from others that they have got this feature to work but I keep getting this error. What have I missed?