Category: Technology
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Using a D750 as a webcam over USB
As I contemplate switching to full time work-from-home (after the pandemic, since my employer is now open to the idea), I’ve been looking at my current video conferencing setup – a Logitech C920 and a HyperX Cloud II headset – and wondering whether I can do something better without spending a lot of money. I’ve…
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Eir F3000 (F@st 5366) – bridge mode
After my adventures in getting the IP address of the router to change, I discovered that the unit won’t keep DHCP disabled. You can turn it off (since I wanted to do DHCP from the Pi-hole), but if you reboot the router it gets turned back on. Since two DHCP servers on the same network…
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Wiring in the B600s – Saturday
I spent part of Friday, and most of Saturday working on getting the AIS unit integrated into Blue Opal’s network, measuring the output of the engine tachometer, and generally fiddling with the electrical wiring locker (tidying it mostly). The end result is that the locker is tidier, the B600s is mounted properly in the locker,…
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Wiring in the B600s – Friday
I spent part of Friday, and most of Saturday working on getting the AIS unit integrated into Blue Opal’s network, measuring the output of the engine tachometer, and generally fiddling with the electrical wiring locker (tidying it mostly). The end result is that the locker is tidier, the B600s is mounted properly in the locker,…
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Alarm sentences from the B600s
The B600s emits some custom sentences to indicate that there are problems (and also turns on a LED labeled “Err”). Some begin with PAMC, others with AIALR. If I remember the NMEA spec correctly, P* are proprietary, so PAMC is Proprietary AMC (Alltek Marine also call themselves AMEC). $PAMC,R,TXT,010,Power anomalies:0.00V*56 $PAMC,R,TXT,200,GPS antenna is not detected*75…
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Configuring the AIS unit
I finally decided to acquire an AIS transceiver for Blue Opal, and went with one that talks both NMEA 0183 and NMEA 2000; an Alltek Marine B600s. It should happily chat with the Miniplex3, which will deal with sending the received AIS transmissions to something like my iPad (as there is no chartplotter or MFD…