October 6, 2022

Expedition now Supports Digital Yacht Gateways

Offshore yacht racing is the ultimate test of equipment, software and functionality. When milliseconds can be the difference between winning or losing, the top helmsmen and navigators really rely on their instrumentation and software to make those critical decisions. Industry leading sensors, instruments and software combine to monitor, calculate and […]
October 28, 2021
NMEA 2000 data on navigation software & app

Receiving NMEA 2000 on a navigation software & app

  The navigation software ScanNav released an update a few weeks ago as it now accepts raw NMEA 2000 data from our iKonvert or NavLink2. A list of PGNs (Message format and parameter group numbers) is preconfigured for commonly used instruments (GPS, COG & SOG, wind, depth, compass, loch, AIS, […]
February 23, 2021

Signal K + OpenCPN + Digital Yacht

The following article explains how to use Signal K on a Windows PC to interface Digital Yacht’s iKonvert (wired) or NavLink2 (wireless) NMEA 2000 gateways to the popular OpenCPN navigation software. Both gateways are NMEA 2000 certified, galvanically isolated and support full Signal K functionality. Until recently, Signal K had […]
September 17, 2019

All set for the NMEA Conference 2019

It is going to be a busy week for Digital Yacht, with the Southampton Boat Show in the UK, La Rochelle Boat Show in France and the NMEA Conference in the US, all happening at the same time. Paul Sumpner our CTO has just sent in this photo of the […]
September 3, 2019

Building a Bridge Between Old and New

With the Southampton Boat Show coming up, thoughts turn to the latest kit and perhaps that new Multi-Function Display that you have been promising yourself. However, “buyer beware” as some of the latest new systems only have NMEA2000 interfaces and connecting your shiney new plotter to your existing GPS, Instruments, […]
May 15, 2019
iKovnert is a NMEA 2000 NMEA 0183 converter

iKonvert NMEA 2000 NMEA 0183 Converter

Digital Yacht have just launched iKonvert, a new NMEA 2000 NMEA 0183 converter designed to make interfacing new and old devices in your boat’s electronic system possible.  It allows older, legacy NMEA 0183 instruments to work with modern multi function displays which now almost exclusively utilise NMEA 2000.  It can also […]
December 17, 2018

Signal K Server V1.10.0 Now Supports iKonvert Gateway

Digital Yacht’s new iKonvert gateway, which was only announced last month at the METS trade show in Amsterdam, has already been implemented/supported by the “cutting edge” Signal K Server open source project. Signal K is the open marine data standard, that aims to make all marine data formats, including NMEA0183 and […]
November 1, 2018

New NMEA2000 Gateway with Developers Guide released

Here is a sneak preview of our latest iKonvert NMEA2000 Gateway which we will be officially launching at METs 2018. Designed to make it easier to interface computers and embedded systems to NMEA2000 networks, iKonvert will compliment and expand our existing range of gateways and converters. Aimed at navigation software […]