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US NOAA update in the Marine GeoGarage

NZ Linz update in the Marine GeoGarage

1) Launch iNavX and open the chart you wish to email or print or Tweet.

2) Scroll and zoom the chart to the region you wish to email or print or Tweet.

3) Select the "i"nfo button in the lower right hand corner of the Chart view.

4) Select the Action button in the upper left hand corner.

5) Select "Email Chart" or "Print Chart" or "Tweet".


A Mac can be a printer using this app..

http://ecamm.com/mac/printopia/


A PC can be a printer following these steps ..

http://jaxov.com/2010/11/how-to-enable-a...n-windows/

Moving waypoints or tracks between a Mac and iNavX uses the X-Traverse site, and this depends on Internet access, which is often not available. As far as I know, local transfer is not yet supported.

I see this as a high-priority. Having to enter waypoints and routes on both systems separately is a pain. Please iNavX can we have an update on this?

As a firm Mac-only user, I am meeting the usual problem that many marine hardware developers supply configuration utilities or applications that are PC-only. No, I do not want to install Windows on my Mac - and get all the complications, viruses etc.

I am considering CrossOver , which claims to let me run PC programs without Windows. CrossOver officially supports some major PC programs, such as Explorer, Office etc., but probably not your typical configuration utility for a multiplexor, AIS receiver or NavTex engine. But I reckon these programs are very simple in comparison, and hopefully might work OK. The most tricky part is probably driving the USB port.

Has anyone tried this solution? And what has been your experience of running simple utilities such as I envisage? Any feedback would be welcome.

While both GPSNavX and MacENC offer a low light setting on their respective "View" menus. Another application can be used to dim all screens ..

http://www.aquiladigital.us/darkadapted/

AyeTides 1.90 is out now. It has bug fixes for the graph, notifications for events on iOS 4 (tap the event and select to notify you, tap again to allow you to unregister the notification), emailing the day's tides (tap on the 'i'), help files on the 'About' page, updated stations for New Zealand and Australia, retina display icons for the iPhone 4, and the moon is the right way up when you are south of the equator.

Several people have asked why I have no current stations in Europe. I've found out (at least for the UK) how they measured the currents, and have posted the information on the web site at http://www.ayetides.com/UKCurrents/UKCurrents.html. For those of you wanting currents in Europe, you are going to be disappointed

Greetings... I would like to introduce myself. I am a long-term Mac user who avoids PCs - I was once an IT professional, so I know what I am avoiding here!

I have for two years been using iNavX on an iPhone aboard my Morgan Giles 30 yacht, and have had a great experience. I am now fortunate to have just ordered a brand new boat, an Alubat Ovni 395, to be delivered next April, and I am designing the electronics, amongst many other tasks. I favour open systems, rather than putting a lot of money into proprietary displays and getting tied to a particular manuafacturer, so will be using my trusty MacBook, MacENC and iPhone, or may be iPad.

I have a Schematic of how things should work here . The dotted items are planned for Phase 2 - initially I intend to have MacENC do the broadcast to the iPhone/iPad. Later I may install the Brookhouse iMux so that the MacBook does not have to be running. Note that I have an AIS transponder in here. This led to the choice of the Standard Horizon GX2000 VHF radio, as it, uniquely as far as I know, has the ability to process AIS data via NMEA and list AIS targets, so they can be called via DSC without having to enter MMSI numbers - not something I want to spend time on if needing to discuss collision avoidance in a hurry.

An earlier version of this scheme used the cheaper Digital Yacht AIS transponder and I hoped to use the in-built GPS as my main GPS receiver, but I have been warned off relying on that. The various NMEA 0183 connections were looking more like a bird's nest of different in and out wires at various speeds and needed multiplexors, and I was getting apprehensive at the amount of fiddling it might take to get it working. I have now focussed on NMEA 2000 wherever possible, and this has greatly simplified the whole thing. I am telling myself the extra cost of the NMEA 2000 compliant AIS transponder, GPS receiver and tridata transducer is a wise investment.

Will it work? Does anyone see any problems? Any comments would be really appreciated - thanks.

Mac ENC can no longer "find" the raster charts that I downloaded 14 months ago. It still sees the vector charts downloaded at the same time. "Raster chart" is grey in the view menu. How do I get them back, or is it easier to download new raster charts from the NOAA website.

AirPlay is the new feature coming to iOS 4.2 for iPhone/iPad. It allows one to redirect any audio or video on the iPhone/iPad to a different place (i.e. like an Apple TV, an Airport Express w/connected speakers). It is accessed by double tapping the home button and selecting the AirPlay button in the task bar (you will have to scroll right to access).

One could use AirPlay to redirect the iNavX anchor alarm audio or music from iTunes.