Signalk-activecaptain-resources NPM

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🧐 About

Garmin's ActiveCaptain brings together the large boating community enabling sharing of information making boating safer, less expensive and more enjoyable.
Signal K is an open source server application that runs as a central information hub on a boat. It centralises data, provides a rich API to consume the data, and is extensible through a comprehensive suite of plugins (such as this one) and web applications.
Freeboard is a powerful chart plotter web application that runs as a webapp on the Signal K server.

This plugin's purpose is to bring together these 3 components by making information from the ActiveCaptain API available as resources throught the Signal K server which can then be consumed and displayed by Freeboard as an extra layer of information on the chart.

🏁 Getting Started

These instructions will get you up and running.

Prerequisites

A running instance of the Signal K node server with a position source (a GPS).

Instructions here

Installing this plugin

Through the Signal K server Appstore, search for signalk-activecaptain-resources, and click the Install button.

Configuration

In the Signal K menu, head to Server -> Plugin Config, and find Garmin Active Captain Resources then enable the plugin. Default values are fine for now, so just click Submit.