I am always looking for better ways to monitor things – from my home network, to our family cabin temperatures, to my sailboat. I have tried other vessel monitoring solutions [https:
SignalK [http://signalk.org/] is an astounding new project that has a ton of potential for marine electronics and connectivity. The concept is something we have needed in the industry
A month or so ago we had some brazen trespassers [http://photos.stevem.net/Cabin/Trespassers/] at our family cabin in Eastern Washington. Being the tech in the family, and
Tank monitoring on a sailboat is not the most glamorous of topics. Recently, it became of great interest when the head holding tank overflowed at the very end of a
I continue to tweak my scripts and data collection on my NMEA 2000 server that I added to last year in Data collection from the sailboat [https://seabits.com/data-collection-from-the-sailboat/
For the last few years, I have had a server of some sort on Jammy collecting various amounts of data. As my NMEA 2000 network continues to grow, I look
I am not a woodworker, so most of my modifications to Jammy where design is involved has been to remove something made of wood, and somehow mount an instrument, device,
I’ve been working on finishing off my NMEA 2000 network for the last year or two, and one of the pieces I wanted to have in it was something
This weekend I am replacing all three batteries on the boat as a result of damage from a crappy battery charger. I’m taking the opportunity to replace all of
Yesterday I made a trip down to the sailboat to do a few things, and when I arrived, I noticed that I didn’t have any shore power. Additionally, the
On Saturday, it looked really nice out on the water near our place on the island, so I decided to go out in my dinghy for the first time this
It’s been a while since I’ve written about our bulkhead permit [https://seabits.com/permits-gone-wrong/] problems, but at least on that front, we don’t have to worry
