Create an OpenPlotter Server with Sailor Hat for Raspberry Pi

Create an OpenPlotter Server with Sailor Hat for Raspberry Pi

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Would you like to build a boat server for displaying fancy dashboards and for logging all historical data of your boat’s behavior, but don’t know where to begin?

Follow our new tutorial on OpenPlotter Server Installation for a complete guide on both hardware and software installation. The result is a a full-featured boat server that has a waterproof enclosure and an integrated power supply and NMEA 2000 compatible CAN interface. The software is all open source and is based on the OpenPlotter distribution.

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