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It used to run kplex to bridge NMEA data (wind speed, depth soundings, boat speed, etc.) from our SeaTalk network to TCP/IP. Now a GL-AR300M does the job though, along with all the Wifi/GSM routing, saving one computer and power (when running strictly off solar and batteries, this matters).

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Have you by any chance documented how you did this, or could you link me to where you learned how to set this up? This is actually one of the projects I puttered on for a long time with one of my RPis (NMEA-2000 to SignalK) but abandoned because I had too many moving parts.

Been meaning to blog about it, but not got around to it yet. Essentially it's just a (bunch of) USB-serial converters and the Seatalk data is converted by a Raymarine E85001. If you have N2k, you need a different converter, e.g. Actisense or better yet, a translator to NMEA0183, which is the de-facto standard for NMEA over TCP/IP.

Yup, I've got an ActiSense NGT-1 that outputs NMEA 2000 PGNs on USB Serial that I can decode with CanBoat: https://github.com/chrismetcalf/canboat-ansible

You can tell by the age of the repo that I got a bit distracted... the distraction just turned two years old.

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