October 19, 2007 14:57
The software from Rusalka might work for what I'm after, but the purchase link doesn't work.
My original interest was stimulated last summer when I was holed up in an anchorage on the east 'shore of Hecate Strait, opposite the Queen Charlotte Islands (Larsen Harbour on the north end of Banks Island, to be exact.) I later learned from the Canadian Coastguard that Hecate is the 4th most dangerous body of water in the world (not sure how that's defined). It was blowing 50+ knots at the nearest weather buoy 10 miles away, and not much better in the anchorage, though it was otherwise well protected. I could monitor the wind speed on MacENC, but I really would have liked a realtime graph, similar to what is available for many of the US Weather buoys, of what the wind had been doing over the few hours, without having to do a export/import into another piece of software. This could also be useful when rising from sleep to see what had been happening during the night.
Having it in MacENC would be convenient, but I'm not sure that's the best use of Rich's time. A simple third party software that could take the nmea feed realtime and convert it into simple line graph would work. Wind speed and direction would be the primary interest, though some of the other data feeds could also be useful.
Scot
My original interest was stimulated last summer when I was holed up in an anchorage on the east 'shore of Hecate Strait, opposite the Queen Charlotte Islands (Larsen Harbour on the north end of Banks Island, to be exact.) I later learned from the Canadian Coastguard that Hecate is the 4th most dangerous body of water in the world (not sure how that's defined). It was blowing 50+ knots at the nearest weather buoy 10 miles away, and not much better in the anchorage, though it was otherwise well protected. I could monitor the wind speed on MacENC, but I really would have liked a realtime graph, similar to what is available for many of the US Weather buoys, of what the wind had been doing over the few hours, without having to do a export/import into another piece of software. This could also be useful when rising from sleep to see what had been happening during the night.
Having it in MacENC would be convenient, but I'm not sure that's the best use of Rich's time. A simple third party software that could take the nmea feed realtime and convert it into simple line graph would work. Wind speed and direction would be the primary interest, though some of the other data feeds could also be useful.
Scot