All this depends on a reliable WIFI connection, right? Do you think your bilge pump switch, for example, is more or less reliable than your onboard WIFI connection?
Bob Bob Boyer s/v Rainy Days C&C Landfall 38 (Hull # 230) (Spending winters in warm places, and summers on the Chesapeake Bay) blog: dainyrays.blogspot.com email: dainyr...@icloud.com > On Mar 2, 2021, at 1:43 PM, Riley Anderson via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > > Len, I'm installing a Victron Cerbo GX. It can do everything you're asking > and will transmit data remotely to the Victron VRM app/website. It needs an > internet connection. Either wifi or hardwired. Victron also sells a GSM > device with a SIM card (~$12/month) if you don't want to rely on marina wifi. > > Here is the Victron Cerbo GX: https://amzn.to/2OfIPxc and technical data. > It can do a lot. Just depends on how fancy you want to get. You can email me > if you have more questions. > > You can also build your own with a raspberry pi and the open-source Venus OS > from Victron. It's the same software they use on the Cerbo but you'll have to > be pretty software savvy to make it do everything you want. Here is a link to > the Venus OS GitHub page: https://github.com/victronenergy/venus/wiki > > Hope this helps, > Cheers > Riley > >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 11:31 AM Len Mitchell via CnC-List >> <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: >> With all this talk about bilge pumps I am looking at a way to monitor the >> boat when I am not there. Has anyone bought or built a monitor? It looks >> possible with a Raspberry Pi computer. I would like to monitor battery bank >> voltage, bilge pump cycles or bilge water level and refrigerator >> temperature. You could go farther and monitor tank levels or install a cctv >> camera too. I am interested in any experience on this. I am not opposed to >> using an old laptop, iPad or tablet if that is more robust. >> >> https://medium.com/initial-state/how-to-monitor-your-boat-during-the-winter-months-d89f7d76a88d >> >> Len Mitchell >> S/V Crazy Legs >> 1989 C&C 37+ >> Midland On. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with >> the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use >> PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - >> Stu > > > -- > Fair winds and following seas, > > Charlotte Freeland & Riley Anderson > SV Freight Train > Middletown, CT USA > Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with > the costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
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