In a new-to-me sailboat I recently dropped in a old C7 hub I wasn't using to control a few temp sensors to help know when to turn on plugs for heaters when away from the boat so things don't freeze.
The boat has on it a NMEA2000/0183 network for the marine instruments (depth, speed, wind speed, and some engine sensors) that all route through a wifi multiplexor and make all the reading available on the wifi network on the boat.
The hubitat is hard wired into the same network.
So it seems to me that given all this info is physically on the same network now I should be able to pull it all together so I can:
- make dashboards with the joint info (this could be HE dashboards or other apps that already use the NMEA data)
- set automations based on data from both systems (send me a HE notificaiton when the wind is above a certain speed)
Not sure where to start. This smart boat site (https://smartboatinnovations.com/), does something similar but with Home Assistant as the platform.
This is the wifi mux device that brings the data together from the NMEA side and makes it accessible on the wifi network: NMEA 2000 Wi-Fi Router YDNR-02 – Yacht Devices Canada
It is capable of setting up various virtual data servers. Not sure if that gets us any closer.
Any suggestions on next steps using the HE? Thanks for any thoughts.
