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DIGITAL YACHT iKommunicate Installation And Instruction Manual

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Summary of Contents for DIGITAL YACHT iKommunicate

  • Page 1 NMEA - SignalK Gateway...

  • Page 2: Before You Start

    Congratulations on the purchase of your iKommunicate Gateway. It is recommended that your gateway is installed by a professional installer. If iKommunicate is to be connected to the internet via a long range Wi-Fi, 3G/4G or satellite connection, it is recommended that this installation/configuration is carried out by someone with suitable IT experience and knowledge of Ethernet networks.
  • Page 3 (SeaTalkNG/Simnet). We supply an integral 1m NMEA2000 cable and ideally you should connect this directly to a spare “T Piece” on the NMEA2000 network’s “backbone”. You can purchase and fit a 3 party NMEA2000 extension cable, but the total drop cable length between iKommunicate and the “T piece” should be 5 meters or less. ...
  • Page 4 NMEA0183  The following steps only need to be followed if you are connecting the iKommunicate to other equipment using NMEA0183 interfacing  iKommunicate has three NMEA0183 Inputs and two NMEA0183 Outputs. All of the connections are brought out on the Power/Data cable and a table showing the wire colours is shown below;...
  • Page 5  iKommunicate will also retransmit all NMEA0183 data that it receives on to the Ethernet network via TCP or UDP. The TCP or UDP connections must be enabled in the Web Interface (default is OFF) but once enabled, all sentences (not just the ones in the previous list) will be retransmitted.
  • Page 6 AIS Class B Static Data Report  iKommunicate will also convert some of the data coming in on NMEA2000 in to NMEA0183 sentences that it outputs the network as TCP and/or UDP data. Currently only the following limited number of popular sentences are output;...
  • Page 7 4. Configuring iKommunicate  Once iKommunicate has got an IP address on the network, you will need to “discover” what IP address it has. iKommunicate supports two network Discovery services; Windows SDDP and mDNS (also known as Bonjour).  If you have a Windows Laptop on the same network, simply open Windows Explorer, go to your Network and, as long as you have network discovery turned on, you will see “iKommunicate”...
  • Page 8 The “Configuration” tab allows you to configure a number of different settings including; Your boat’s MMSI and Boatname plus iKommunicate’s network Hostname Whether iKommunicate uses an automatic (DHCP) IP address or a fixed (static) one The baud rates of the three NMEA 0183 ports (also displays the sentences received)
  • Page 9 The “Administration” tab is where you can change the password for accessing the Admin Web Interface and also check for firmware updates and download them (requires the network to have internet an connection). Figure 6 Quick Start Guide for iKommunicate V1.01 TEL + 44 1179 554474 www.digitalyacht.co.uk sales@digitalyacht.co.uk...
  • Page 10 NMEA data. However, to get you started, we have pre-loaded a couple of Signal K Apps that you can play with “straight out of the box”. To access these apps, type the IP address of iKommunicate in to your browser and you should see iKommunicate’s Home page again (Fig 7).
  • Page 11 Clicking the “Hosted App” button on the Home page displays the Index.Html page in the “hosted” folder on the iKommunicate’s micro SD Card – see section x.x for details of how to access the micro SD Card. It is intended that users will be able to store their favourite Signal K Web Apps on the SD Card and then use iKommunicate as a simple web server to serve up the web apps and the data they require.
  • Page 12 Instrument Panel will automatically set the correct IP address for iKommunicate, so you can just click the “Connect” button and see what data is available from iKommunicate (Fig.11). Figure 11 Each data reading is shown in a different panel and these will scroll all the way down the page. The panels are fully editable and you can decide which ones are visible, stretch and drag them around the page, set what units they are displayed in and whether they are Digital or Analogue gauges.
  • Page 13 In the top right hand corner of Instrument Panel are a Power Icon and a data indicator The Power Icon closes the websocket connection between Instrument Panel and iKommunicate, while the data indicator flashes each time a new Delta message is received.

  • Page 14: Document Storage

    Figure 15 Document Storage Clicking the “Documents” button on the Home page, will display the contents of the “docs” folder on the iKommunicate micro SD Card. We have included some useful documents and pictures on iKommunicate and Signal K (including this manual) and you can click on any of the document links to display the PDF, JPG or PNG file in your browser.
  • Page 15 Pictures sub-folder. Figure 16 Then once you click on the file you wish to look at, it will open in your browser (see Fig.17). Figure 17 Quick Start Guide for iKommunicate V1.01 TEL + 44 1179 554474 www.digitalyacht.co.uk sales@digitalyacht.co.uk...