Maretron nmea 2000 display software#
Maretron nmea 2000 display series#
Maretron nmea 2000 display windows#

(That transducer, incidentally, works better than many predicted, holding 300 feet of bottom at up to 14 knots in testing so far.) A Garmin MFD can set a keel offset on the DST2000 (also called the DST800, I think), but I found that both it and Maretron got confused about such configurations if both transducers were online at the same time. Maretron NMEA2000 USB Gateway - USB100-01. Do not tap away at those four keys to painstakingly write a long description and then just Back out without going to “Save & Exit”! Maretron also doesn’t seem to recognize the DST2000 I mounted near Gizmo’s bow as something it can configure, which seems odd as Airmar built the DST100 as well. Unfortunately, the oldish Maretron DST100 I’m using doesn’t support this feature and I had to resort to the DSM250’s custom name feature (below), which is nice to have but painful to use.

You can type them right into Analyzer for storage in the sensor and then when you’re building a screen on the DSM250 or in N2KView you can simply use the custom label as a data description. As you can see on this N2KAnalyzer screen, many Maretron sensors accept Labels. But they’re definitely cool when they work. Frankly I don’t even know if they are a mostly-unused N2K option, or only a Maretron feature. Instances is one of those areas of N2K that most users will never need to know about, and I find confusing, but it seems to have powerful possibilities.

Maretron nmea 2000 display software#

Not every manufacturer gives you the ability to change Instance, though Maretron is great about it, and you almost invariably need a same manufacturer display or software to make the change. The trick was to change the “Instance” of one transducer from the default “0” so I could then select different instances of Depth when setting up the screen. So you can often get double depth read-outs by setting different displays to different sources, but maybe only Maretron supports the screen above.

Maretron nmea 2000 display series#

Some Lowrance MFDs are an exception, but I’m not sure that feature migrated to the HDS series (I’ll check), and I recall that it did not apply to depth for some reason. Most of N2K displays I’m testing let a user choose the source of a particular data type if there is more than one on the backbone, but they don’t let you show two of the same type, except for items that are commonly multiple like engines and tanks. Unfortunately this level of N2K data management is not yet available elsewhere, unless I’ve missed something… I think the screen will be useful in some tight gunkholing situations, and would be even more so on a larger vessel or a multihull.

Maretron nmea 2000 display windows#

There’s a lot to say about this screen and how the values got there, or didn’t, but what I like the most is how Maretron’s DSM250 is displaying the outputs of two NMEA 2000 depth transducers at once, and that I was even able to name their data windows in an informative way.