NMEA 2000 Configuration

Ocean Signal ATB-1

The ATB-1 AIS transponder produces NMEA2000 PGNs and is also capable of hosting an NMEA 0183 web server that can be used as a data source for connected applications such as the Garmin Boating App, AKA Navionics.

The boating apps connection to the TCP server hosted by the ATB-1 proved far too unreliable, with continnual disconnections, A UDP server would provide a much more stable service, but is not provided by the ATB-1 (or if it is, it is not documented well at all)

Our solution is to use the YDWG-02 NMEA 2000 Wireless gateway which allows us to configure a UDP server on a commonly recoginsed port 10110.

This server has provided reliable AIS target integration with the boating APP.

The ATB-1

Yacht Devices

Configuration settings to YD devices can be made using CANView and udating “Installation Description 2” in the Device properties.

Commands are in the format YD: [Command] [Param 1] [Param 2]

The following configuration setting have been applied:

YDAP-04