Garmin EchoMap Plus 43cv
Hello,
Im very new to the whole world of navionics and boating in gernal. I have a very small 14' aluminum boat with a very old 7.5 Johnson and i just bought this Garmin echomap plus for sonar fish finding and the navigation, so i can look at lake maps and figure out depths plan routes ect. I was very disappointed to learn after the fact that there is no way for me to do any kind of route planning away from the unit via an app or something of that nature.
So the big question why am i here? Ive been reading alot about signal K and im trying to understand what i can do with it using the serial lines that come out of the Garmin. I understand that its NMEA 0183 standard or it uses the Garmin proprietary protocol for sharing data between Garmin devices. Im imagining based on my reading that i can use a raspberry pi to capture the serial data on the GPIO pins and then parse that data using Signal K. Would i then be able to pull that data into some kind of android app for viewing all my routes and way points and things like that ? And or would i be able to create routes and send them back to the unit? Maybe its better if i just ask what kinds of things can i do with this kind of setup ? Looking for ideas
Thanks !
Im very new to the whole world of navionics and boating in gernal. I have a very small 14' aluminum boat with a very old 7.5 Johnson and i just bought this Garmin echomap plus for sonar fish finding and the navigation, so i can look at lake maps and figure out depths plan routes ect. I was very disappointed to learn after the fact that there is no way for me to do any kind of route planning away from the unit via an app or something of that nature.
So the big question why am i here? Ive been reading alot about signal K and im trying to understand what i can do with it using the serial lines that come out of the Garmin. I understand that its NMEA 0183 standard or it uses the Garmin proprietary protocol for sharing data between Garmin devices. Im imagining based on my reading that i can use a raspberry pi to capture the serial data on the GPIO pins and then parse that data using Signal K. Would i then be able to pull that data into some kind of android app for viewing all my routes and way points and things like that ? And or would i be able to create routes and send them back to the unit? Maybe its better if i just ask what kinds of things can i do with this kind of setup ? Looking for ideas
Thanks !
