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 navigation entry to a PostgSail server.

Demo

demo.mp4

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, with or without time control.
• Add custom notes to your logs.
• Export to CSV, GPX, GeoJSON, KML and download your logs.
• Export your logs as image (PNG) or video (MP4).
• 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.
• History: view trends.
• Alert monitoring: get notification on low voltage or low fuel remotely.
• Notification via email or PushOver, Telegram.
• Offline mode.
• Low Bandwidth mode.
• Awesome statistics and graphs.
• Create and manage your own dashboards.
• Windy PWS (Personal Weather Station).
• Engine Hours Logger.
• Polar performance.
• Anything missing? just ask!

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.state		use for trip start/end and motoring vs sailing
navigation.courseOverGroundTrue	Course
navigation.headingTrue	Heading
navigation.speedThroughWater
navigation.speedOverGround	Speed
environment.wind.directionTrue	Wind
environment.wind.speedTrue	Wind
environment.wind.speedOverGround	Wind
environment.*.pressure	Baro	Pressure in zone
environment.*.temperature	Temp
environment.*.relativeHumidity	Ratio	1 = 100%
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.*.current		Current 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, create a free account on iot.openplotter.cloud.

Self-hosted

Host your own PostgSail server.

Development

Cloud development

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