Pyssel

Updated 2026-09-10 !  !! Another SW solution is available for RPi 5 here !  using the same HW. Thanks to Thomas, (the guy with the nice marine interface board ) ,  it's now possible  to decode, one way, the SeaTalk1(ST1) sentences in a pretty simple way. You just  use OpenPlotter(OP) and/or SignalK(SK) and an  Optocoupler . The thing that made it, is that Thomas   has released a "how to" and  Python source code , that will read the data from a GPIO pin on the Raspberry Pi, (RPi), and format it so the standard parser in SignalK can translate it to SignalK delta format. It is then  available as NMEA 0183. It's even possible to send the data in to a NMEA 2000 network, with a proper hardware interface. Don't miss Dons bidirectional solution found here ! 

During the years it has been a lot of tinkering..... So in this post I will make a list with links to products, software and blogposts describing my daily use. Since the family is Apple users it started up with HomeKit and an Apple TV as the Home hub..... Now I'm moving towards the new standard => Matter over Thread .

Updated 2026-09-01 As a part of one of my project,  the ultimate Weather site ? Weather34 , I needed a WEB-host with PHP. Log on, with ssh/terminal to the host,  in this case hostname "pws01",  and update the OS(skip " sudo " if using " root ") with sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade -y sudo apt clean go on and install the Apache server with sudo apt install apache2