Are there any keys to provide information on bilge pump activations or high water activations?
I have a bilge pump sensor, and I'd like to provide information via signalk on bilge pump activations and high water notifications. Are there keys for this somewhere in the schema? If not, what group would these fall under?
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Same thing here. I just made up my own keys but would prefer to stick to some established scheme.
Same, I use: "propulsion.engine.bilge" as either 'Water Present' or 'Clear' and "propulsion.engine.bilge.raw" as either 1 or 0.
I use environment.bilge.forward/aft.flood with a boolean for indicating water presence. I don’t have a bilge pump parameter but I think it would be electrical.pump.bilge.aft or something similar with a time in milliseconds as value for duration it ran
I used a NMEA2k ultrasonic sensor and mounted it in a 2” ABS pipe. I have a rather wet bilge (6 shaft logs), so I control the bilge pump via NodeRed to maintain water level in the bilge.
"maintaining water level in the bilge" sounds like you need to pump it in or risk going dry 😆
lol, no risk of it being dry! I keep it between 2-3" in the 2" wide keel. 54 year old engines tend to leak oil, just in case some isn't caught by the well under the engine, or the absorbent pads around the engine, or the ones actually in the keel space - I never pump everything out. Oil floats on top and I pump right from the bottom to ensure oil/diesel is never pumped overboard. I never see oil in the bilge water anymore, but there was a lot when I first bought the boat so have become very cautious.