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Now i found it, there is a PR on the signalk-autopilot that is needed to commit to make it work. So I thinkj it should work. But i concentrate in the v1 for now, and will move the code for garmin to support v2, latest when the v2 is released. I can also see in the PR that the head (the gui) is not updated to use v2 api. Since I am doing a generic head that can work with garmin - and raymarine - i was a bit interested in those changes. But one question about the new api: what is the difference of state and mode? STate could be standby, active (auto), wind etc. But what is mode then? On off?

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SKSignal K

•Created by Jörgen on 2/21/2024 in #plugins-and-webapps

Jörgen - I'd like to help with support for Garm...

@AdrianP FYI, I just released a first proof of concept based on the old api. https://github.com/jorgen-k/signalk-autopilot-garmin. I did not get the new API to work at all for some reason, I think the "old" plugin signalk-autopilot was not really updated. Anyways, I will of course update to V2 when possible.

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SKSignal K

•Created by Jörgen on 2/26/2024 in #plugins-and-webapps

problem starting development

I will try to do that using the V2 api, got some good help from @AdrianP . Have made a POC that I will try in the boat later today. Biggest struggle I forsee is that the PGN's is not decoded, so I have to reverse engineer at least the parts I need to use.

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SKSignal K

•Created by Jörgen on 2/26/2024 in #plugins-and-webapps

problem starting development

I am trying to interface my garmin autopilot.

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SKSignal K

•Created by Jörgen on 2/26/2024 in #plugins-and-webapps

problem starting development

Working now after reinstallation of node and npm. Sorry for any confusion.

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SKSignal K

•Created by Jörgen on 2/26/2024 in #plugins-and-webapps

problem starting development

I am afraid it does not work on my mac. But managed in a docker container, I will run that way for now.

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SKSignal K

•Created by Jörgen on 2/21/2024 in #plugins-and-webapps

Jörgen - I'd like to help with support for Garm...

Great job! I will check it out and try it when ready with my POC (just messing around with the current autopilot plugin). Right now trying to understand how I can live without the missing PGN's, but will probably be able to fix something. Have at least been able to turn the autopilot on and off - in theory - but needs to go in the boat to make a field test.

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SKSignal K

•Created by Jörgen on 2/21/2024 in #plugins-and-webapps

Jörgen - I'd like to help with support for Garm...

Perfect! I have been down in the boat and managed to get the right pgn and data needed to set the autopilot to auto and back to standby. It took a while since I am not used to the n2k protocol and this was all unknown paths. But I also managed to find the increase and decrease of the course steered, so basically I have the beginning in order to emulate the control head (GHC 20). So now I will try setup a development environment, since i could not send raw data from node-red.

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SKSignal K

•Created by Jörgen on 2/21/2024 in #plugins-and-webapps

Jörgen - I'd like to help with support for Garm...

Perfect, so what I understand I should create a plugin for Garmin Reactor. Is there an example of a minimal such plugin? However first I need to hack a poc together, to show that I can steer the Garmin, I cannot find that anyone has done that previously, maybe there are hard-to-overcome obstacles.

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