Design question
My setup is a boat with NMEA 0183 & 2000. SK server is running on a Pi 4B, and a smaller Pi running VenusOS. I have a couple of Halmets that will gather data from engines, fuel tanks and water tanks. I also have a Hatlabs SH-GW. I've just started with Node Red, dashboards seem fairly straight forward.
Question 1: Is it better to have any/all data sent as N2K from the Halmets/ESP32s, or have it all sent as SignalK and then decide what i want to expose to the N2K network via the SK plugin? Question2: I have an InfluxDB on the Pi 4, is it more efficient/better to get the SignalK plugin to write to the InfluxDB, or to get Node Red to perform this task?? Thanks in advance 🙂
Question 1: Is it better to have any/all data sent as N2K from the Halmets/ESP32s, or have it all sent as SignalK and then decide what i want to expose to the N2K network via the SK plugin? Question2: I have an InfluxDB on the Pi 4, is it more efficient/better to get the SignalK plugin to write to the InfluxDB, or to get Node Red to perform this task?? Thanks in advance 🙂
1 Reply
#1: best to use SignalK since you can send anything you want
#2: I don’t see any reason to use node-red for this.