I would like to control a tillerpilot on a sailboat in a wireless way and to do that I might have to send NMEA-0183 messages. Are there libraries that can help me with that?
What I can glean from the documentation I have to send ascii encoded messages in a RS422-compatible manner (same as RS232 for my purposes) at typically 9600 bps (8N1). Sentences look like this:
$GPBWC,220516,5130.02,N,00046.34,W,213.8,T,218.0,M,0004.6,N,EGLM*11
I haven’t found NMEA mentioned on the wixel forum but I am hoping that some of the efforts on other systems could transfer but I have no idea where to look. Anyone tried this before?
Ryan, Yes, I want to send sentences from the Wixel. In reality, I need to reverse engineer a remote control that I have and see how it encodes the ‘turn to startboard 5 degree’ and ‘switch to autopilot now’ type information. I will then generate them depending on some user input with the wixel.
Before you do any Wixel app development, you can use the Wixel’s USB-to-Serial app to test your electrical connections and NMEA sentences with a terminal program on your computer.
There are a couple of Apps that do string manipulation then send the strings as bytes. For example, the radio_sniffer, and the test_adc apps.
