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dAISy AIS Receiver

Wegmatt LLC

$59.00

dAISy 2+ dual-channel AIS Receiver with NMEA 0183

Wegmatt LLC

$89.00

dAISy HAT - AIS Receiver for Raspberry Pi

Wegmatt LLC

$65.00

NMEA 0183 / RS-422 Adapter for dAISy

Wegmatt LLC

$25.00

Raspberry Pi Case for dAISy HAT

Wegmatt LLC

$15.00

TAI-SAW TA0395A SAW Filter

Wegmatt LLC

$5.00

About

Nighttime tinkerer with a passion for small electronics and software projects that are measured in kilobytes.

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Reviews

Review Breakdown

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Average Ratings

Product: (4.79)

Documentation: (4.48)

Shipping: (4.64)

Communication: (4.77)

Ricardo | Feb. 6, 2019

Great product!

For dAISy HAT - AIS Receiver for Raspberry Pi

I'm really happy to have found dAISy HAT: I wanted to have a new hobby but was reluctant to pour hundreds of dollars into it, without even knowing whether it would work. The Raspberry Pi 3B + dAISy HAT combo (plus a 2nd hand antenna) is affordable and a provides a great way to enter the AIS world. There's only one glitch at the moment: even though I receive messages continuously, my feed to sites like AISHub halts sometimes. Restarting the Pi fixes the problem. For my purposes, this is not a big deal. Thanks for creating this product!

Response from Wegmatt LLC | Feb. 8, 2019

Thank you for the review! :)

To clarify for others reading: From my communication with Ricardo, it looks like the issue is with the software transmitting to AISHub, not the HAT itself.

Abu Syeed Md. | Jan. 8, 2019

Products Received

For dAISy 2+ dual-channel AIS Receiver with NMEA 0183

Product received but not yet test. Need More imprisonment about setting of this device with tablet, compute, mobile etc. Seller can provide a video tutorial for installation.

Fabio | Dec. 30, 2018

Great product, easy to install and with great performance

For dAISy 2+ dual-channel AIS Receiver with NMEA 0183

I am very happy with my purchase of dAISy 2+

It was shipped out of US with no problems and I was able to install it by myself following the instructions. Adrian Studer @wegmatt offer additional help and advice by email and answered promptly to few questions.

I used dAISy 2+ during a 1700nm trips from Panama to Georgia (USA) and it proved helpful sailing through busy areas such as the entrance of the Panama Canal and the Straits of Florida. It was connected to the VHF antenna on top of my sailboat's mast (37ft) via an antenna splitter and during the sailing I was able to pick up AIS targets as far as 17nm. I was able to both operate the radio and receive AIS without any problem. I connected dAISy 2+ with an OTG cable to my Android tablet. While it worked good with certain applications (BoatBeacon) it did not showed up on OpenCPN but that was because of Android version issues on my OpenCPN app. I suggest to use a WiFi module that plugs in the dAISy to avoid such problems.

I highly recommend this product because it's inexpensive, easy to install and it performs very well.

Paul | Nov. 26, 2018

dAISy HAT - AIS Receiver for Raspberry Pi

For dAISy HAT - AIS Receiver for Raspberry Pi

Great product for tracking ships. Easily installed. Used it on a recent ocean cruise to track the ship I was on and those nearby.

Product issue: Wished that some of the serial pins were brought out from the daughter board. I want to connect some other devices and it looks like I'll be soldering.

Documentation issue: It told me to connect to /dev/serial0 when in fact it connected to /dev/TTYs0. (Latest Raspian Jessie on a new RPI 3)

Response from Wegmatt LLC | Nov. 26, 2018

Thank you for the review and your detailed feedback.

I don't populate the broken out serial interface (I2C, UART) to avoid conflicts with enclosures. A GPIO shim may be useful if you don't want to solder on the HAT. But as mentioned, soldering directly on the dAISy HAT won't void the warranty. I'm happy to see my customers experiment and hack. :-)

The UART situation on the Raspberry Pi 3 is a bit complicated. /dev/serial0 refers to the primary UART, which when using the shell script mentioned in the documentation, is an alias for /dev/ttyAMA0. /dev/ttyS0 is the mini-UART which may show timing issues depending on clock configuration of the RPi.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/uart.md

Charles | Nov. 21, 2018

dAISy is easy to install, low cost, and works great

For dAISy HAT - AIS Receiver for Raspberry Pi

My purpose for dAISy Hat was to set up a feed for AISHUB, the open data AIS source. I used their dedicated distribution, rPiAIS, that contains all the software to receive, process, and monitor AIS data. The combination of this distribution and dAISy worked straight away, also thanks to the clear configuration documentation. The whole system was operational in less than a day and the performance is good. Shipping took more than two week, mainly due to Dutch customs.

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