Connecting devices

Using the Connections tab you can easily configure some programs to obtain data from your device:

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Depending on the type of data you set when defining the alias, some supported programs will be enabled in the toolbar when selecting devices. To see how this works we are going to configure our USB GPS receiver. Select the ttyOP_gps device and press Add to Signal K:

Note

Select Add to Pypilot only if you are using a Pypilot controller. See Pypilot for more info.

Select Add to GPSD only if you want GPSD to manage your GPS/AIS device. All GPSD and Signal K settings will be created automatically.

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Then select the Baud Rate required by your device and press AUTO:

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The signal K server will restart and the connection will be marked green:

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And you are done. Check in Signal K server the new connection:

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And check OpenCPN to make sure there is a connection to the Signal K server:

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