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Quick Start Guide for iKommunicate V1.01

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Fig.16 below shows the list of documents included on the SD Card. The top table is the main Documents folder and the
bottom table is the Pictures sub-folder.

Figure 16

Then once you click on the file you wish to look at, it will open in your browser (see Fig.17).

Figure 17

Summary of Contents for iKommunicate

Page 1: ...iKommunicate NMEA SignalK Gateway ...

Page 2: ...e iKommunicate in a suitable mounting location To test and configure the iKommunicate you will need A PC Mac iPhone iPad or other wireless device that has a web browser such as IE Chrome Firefox etc To connect the iKommunicate to the internet to check and download firmware updates you will need Your boat s Ethernet network to have a long range Wi Fi 3G 4G or satellite connection to the internet A ...

Page 3: ...at6 SFTP network cable which are slightly more expensive than normal unshielded network cables but are less prone to crosstalk and electrical interference in the noisy confines of a modern boat s nav station 3 2 Mounting iKommunicate has 4 x 4mm Diameter fixing holes Use suitable fixings not supplied to fix the IKommunicate to a flat surface using the dimensions and details shown in the drawing be...

Page 4: ... NMEA0183 Output 4 800 baud VIOLET NMEA0183 port 2 TX YELLOW NMEA0183 port 2 RX Low speed NMEA0183 input 4 800 baud GREEN NMEA0183 port 2 RX WHITE NMEA0183 port 3 RX High speed NMEA0183 input 38 400 baud Ideal for connecting AIS BLUE NMEA0183 port 3 RX iKommunicate can receive the following NMEA0183 Sentences and convert them to Signal K Sentence Description APB Heading Track Controller Autopilot ...

Page 5: ... NMEA2000 products simply find or add a spare NMEA2000 T piece on the existing NMEA2000 network and connect the AIT2000 N2Net connector to the T piece The N2Net cable is just over 1m long and is terminated in an NMEA2000 Micro Male Connector The AIT2000 does not take any power from the NMEA2000 network For connection to a Raymarine SeaTalkNG network a SeaTalkNG to Device net female adaptor cable w...

Page 6: ...L Geographic Position Lat Long GSV GNSS Sats in view HDG Heading Deviation and Variation VTG Course over Ground and Ground Speed VDM AIS Data 3 6 Networking iKommunicate is designed to be connected to a normal wired Ethernet network 10 or 100Mbits via its RJ45 connector and the supplied network cable By default it will try to automatically obtain a network address via DHCP and self assign itself a...

Page 7: ...ces The command is avahi browse a or if you want to see all of the information avahi browse a r to resolve all of the discovered data For iOS we recommend a free Bonjour App called Discover or one called Fing which scans the network rather than uses Bonjour For Android the best free app to use is Bonjour Browser which is also available for Windows and Mac Once you have discovered the IP address of...

Page 8: ...figure a number of different settings including o Your boat s MMSI and Boatname plus iKommunicate s network Hostname o Whether iKommunicate uses an automatic DHCP IP address or a fixed static one o The baud rates of the three NMEA 0183 ports also displays the sentences received o Enabling NMEA0183 Output on Port 1 2 or over the network via TCP UDP Figure 4 ...

Page 9: ...The Devices tab lists all of the devices on the NMEA2000 network as shown below in Fig 5 Figure 5 The Administration tab is where you can change the password for accessing the Admin Web Interface and also check for firmware updates and download them requires the network to have internet an connection Figure 6 ...

Page 10: ...d we have pre loaded a couple of Signal K Apps that you can play with straight out of the box To access these apps type the IP address of iKommunicate in to your browser and you should see iKommunicate s Home page again Fig 7 Figure 7 5 1 iKompass App Embedded Clicking the iKompass App button on the home page will display Digital Yacht s embedded App iKompass is stored in iKommunicate s flash memo...

Page 11: ... to serve up the web apps and the data they require We have included a copy of the popular Instrument Panel web app that is written and maintained by the Signal K development team It is an open source web app with all of the sources and documentation available at https github com SignalK instrumentpanel To access a hosted app click on the Hosted App button on the Home page and the Index html page ...

Page 12: ...s available from iKommunicate Fig 11 Figure 11 Each data reading is shown in a different panel and these will scroll all the way down the page The panels are fully editable and you can decide which ones are visible stretch and drag them around the page set what units they are displayed in and whether they are Digital or Analogue gauges Step 1 Choose what panels to display by clicking the button an...

Page 13: ... a new Page 2 will be added Also a new Del Current button will appear so that you can delete the current page if you need to Finally in the Settings page there is a button which as the name suggests deletes all of the stored settings for Instrument Panel Step 2 Resize and Position your panels by clicking the icon and the panels will turn yellow as in Fig 13 Figure 13 Now you can click on a panel d...

Page 14: ...Signal K including this manual and you can click on any of the document links to display the PDF JPG or PNG file in your browser If you are experienced in HTML it is fairly easy to edit the Index html file in the docs folder and add your own documents and links There are also some useful tools available online to generate the Index html file with all of the links to whatever files you include in t...

Page 15: ...s digitalyacht co uk Fig 16 below shows the list of documents included on the SD Card The top table is the main Documents folder and the bottom table is the Pictures sub folder Figure 16 Then once you click on the file you wish to look at it will open in your browser see Fig 17 Figure 17 ...

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