htool/signalk-icom-ct-m500-plugin

Emulate Icom CT-M500 to send/receive NMEA0183

Icom IC-M500 plugin

The plugin reads nmea0183out and relays this info to the IC-M510E. This enables a non-AIS model to still show AIS targets on the display.

To enable nmea0183out, install:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/@signalk/signalk-to-nmea0183

To enable the sending of AIS messages to nmea0183, install:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/signalk-n2kais-to-nmea0183

Plugin config

The config allows you to filter out nmea0183 messages coming from the IC-M510E. To receive the messages, you need to add a nmea0183 UDP listener connection in SignalK's connections and configure the port number.

SignalK info

Radio info is written to:

communication.vhf.ip        string      IP address of Icom M510E
                 .port      number      UDP source port
                 .busy      boolean     Is channel busy?
                 .channel   string      Active channel
                 .hilo      boolean     Allows changing High/Low?
                 .watt      number      1 or 25 Watt