How do you get wi-Fi on your boats to connect tablets or phones with Navionics to an MFD?
Nick Hirst
Mirthin N30U
RCYC Toronto
416.722.8565
Hi Nick - What’s your MFD?
Nicholas,
I download the charts first. Then it uses the GPS in the tablet to track. It works well in my Samsung tablet. I use it as a back-up and to answer my wife’s repeated question: “When are we going to be there?”. My 14-year-old RayMarine E7D will give me ETA to the next fix, but not the destination. The Navionics app gives more information. I also found out that the chart subscription I purchased from Garmin/Navionics for the RayMarine (NE USA) does not include the Canadian shore, East of Toronto. On the trip to the Rendezvous I used the app going into Cobourg and west until Scarboro Bluffs.
Another plus to using the app, you can run two apps at once. I can split the screen with Navionics on one side and My Radar on the other to look at precipitation.
This nugget belongs in the other thread about replacing electronics, but my 2005 Garmin 376C is more intuitive than my RayMarine. Garmin has an auto zoom feature that keeps the route to the next fix on the chart, zooms in as you near the fix. Then when you pass the fix, it zooms out to show the next fix. The new Axioms don’t have a feature like that.
Chuck Garbarino
N30U #292
As You Wish
Sodus Point, NY
Sorry Nick, I mis-interpreted your question. I can only hook up to Wi-Fi in port. I have to put the card into my laptop to do updates on my E7D.
Chuck
Nick, maybe its just me, but I don’t understand your question. What are you trying to accomplish? What MFD do you have?
Don