Year: 2020

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Manual

We owed you a short user manual to help with the connection (although it’s only three wires) and, above all, with calibrating Raymarine displays, the most widespread ones, so they show the information correctly.

Well, now we have a mini manual.

sailoQ lite v1.3 manual (PDF)Download

Interested? sailoQ devices are available in the shop: the sailoQ cube-micro, speed log only, and the sailoQ cube-lite, with NMEA 0183 and SeaTalk. If you're unsure which model to choose, see Which sailoQ do I need?

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New software version 1.3

We are announcing software version 1.3. This is a major revision, with significant changes to the code structure and new features, which we describe below:

  • Support for NMEA0183 sentences to communicate using this protocol, as announced in a previous post. This is probably the most notable change, as it opens up a wide range of possibilities for the device.
  • Optional BME280 weather station (on request) providing temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure. The data is also sent over NMEA0183 and can be read by other devices on board, or even by a Raspberry Pi running OpenCPN and automatically logged at regular intervals.
  • More information about the start-up process sent over USB, so we always know what the device is doing.
  • 20×4 LCD with a well-designed layout so it can be used on its own.

We hope these changes are well received and live up to your expectations. As always, we are listening and happy to implement anything you’d like to have in the device.

Interested? sailoQ devices are available in the shop: the sailoQ cube-micro, speed log only, and the sailoQ cube-lite, with NMEA 0183 and SeaTalk. If you're unsure which model to choose, see Which sailoQ do I need?

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NMEA-0183

The NMEA0183 data bus is still a widely used standard in leisure boating; most of the devices on our boats almost certainly communicate using this protocol, which is based (roughly speaking) on sending text messages over a simple serial port at 4800 bps with specific electrical specifications.

Although the electrical standard defines it as RS-422, it also accepts RS-232. The standard also requires isolated inputs and outputs, although in these first units we are connecting them directly, without optocouplers to isolate the output.

Well, after some trials and testing, we are now sending the speed log sentence and passing the GPS data through the NMEA output of the sailoQ-lite.

We hope you like this new feature, which adds a small extension to the device’s capabilities.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMEA_0183

Here is a link to Wikipedia, where the NMEA0183 protocol is explained, in case you want to learn more.

Interested? sailoQ devices are available in the shop: the sailoQ cube-micro, speed log only, and the sailoQ cube-lite, with NMEA 0183 and SeaTalk. If you're unsure which model to choose, see Which sailoQ do I need?

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Enclosure for board 1.3

Making use of an old 3D printer, we designed an enclosure to make mounting on bulkheads easier.

Here you can see the first prototypes: we designed two models, one more compact and one slightly larger.

Caja compacta impresa en 3D para la placa 1.3
Caja grande impresa en 3D para la placa 1.3
Prototipos de cajas impresas en 3D en varios colores

Interested? sailoQ devices are available in the shop: the sailoQ cube-micro, speed log only, and the sailoQ cube-lite, with NMEA 0183 and SeaTalk. If you're unsure which model to choose, see Which sailoQ do I need?