Signal K PostgSail plugin
PostgSail effortlessly logs your voyages, automatically capturing your trips, moorages, dockings and anchorages with no additional need to stop/start anything. Built for sailors, motorboats and commercial uses.
Send, monitor, alert, observe all numeric values & positions & status to a self-hosted or cloud instances of PostgSail (PostgreSQL, Grafana).
Description
Signal K server plugin to send all self SignalK numeric data and nagivation entry to a PostgSail server.
Features
- Automatically log your voyages without manually starting or stopping a trip.
- Automatically capture the details of your voyages (boat speed, heading, wind speed, etc).
- Timelapse video your trips!
- Add custom notes to your logs.
- Export to CSV, GPX, GeoJSON, KML and download your logs.
- Aggregate your trip statistics: Longest voyage, time spent at anchorages, home ports etc.
- See your moorages on a global map, with incoming and outgoing voyages from each trip.
- Monitor your boat (position, depth, wind, temperature, battery charge status, etc.) remotely with history.
- Notification via email or PushOver.
- Notification and monitor your boat via Telegram bot.
- Offline mode.
- Low Bandwith mode.
- Awesome statistics and graphs.
- Compatibles with Victron Cerbo GX monitoring devices as well as other Victron GX series.
- Compatibles Raspberry Pi.
Optional dependencies
signalk-autostate by @meri-imperiumi. Used to determine the vessel's state based on sensor values, and updates the navigation.state value accordingly.
The signalk-derived-data and signalk-path-mapper plugins are both useful to remap available data to the required canonical paths.
Source data
The following SignalK paths are used by PostgSail to generate logbook and monitoring. SignalK Keys Reference (Vessel)
| SignalK path | Timeline name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
navigation.courseOverGroundTrue |
Course | |
navigation.headingTrue |
Heading | |
navigation.speedThroughWater |
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navigation.speedOverGround |
Speed | |
environment.wind.directionTrue |
Wind | |
environment.wind.speedOverGround |
Wind | |
environment.*.pressure |
Baro | Pressure in zone |
environment.*.temperature |
Temp | |
environment.*.relativeHumidity |
Ratio | |
environment.water.swell.state |
Sea | |
navigation.position |
Coordinates | |
navigation.log |
Log | If present, used to calculate distance |
propulsion.*.runTime |
Engine | If present, used to calculate engine hour usage |
steering.autopilot.state |
Autopilot changes are logged. | |
navigation.state |
If present, used to start and stop automated hourly entries. Changes are logged. | |
propulsion.*.state |
Propulsion changes are logged. | |
electrical.batteries.*.voltage |
Voltage measured | |
electrical.batteries.*.stateOfCharge |
ratio | State of charge, 1 = 100% |
electrical.solar.* |
Solar measured | |
tanks.*.currentLevel |
Level of fluid in tank 0-100% | |
tanks.*.capacity.* |
Total capacity |
The signalk-derived-data and signalk-path-mapper plugins are both useful to remap available data to the required canonical paths.
Cloud
Optional a free account on iot.openplotter.cloud.
Cloud development
A full-featured development environment ready to test and code.
With DevPod
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