Is there a method to listen for data over Wifi?

I see makeWebRequest and I might be able to make that work but it would be slower than what I would expect from sensor data.

Basically I have nmea 0183 and nmea 2000 (message protocol typically used on boat networks that includes GPS, wind, depth, cog, heading) broadcast on my wifi. It would be really convenient to be able to view this data on my watch or 86sci. Currently I have not found any apps that do this and haven't been able to locate a method yet that seems like it would work for this.

I might be able to use make WebRequest but the yachtdevices bridge doesn't seem to offer an API so I would need to scrap the device page to try and get this data.

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0 6949985 over 1 year ago in reply to jim_m_58

that is stated in the original post ... NMEA 2000 / NMEA 0183 NMEA 2000 - Wikipedia. While NMEA 2000 / 0183 describes physical network and protocol, the https://www.yachtd.com/products/wifi_gateway.html connects physically to NMEA 2000 then broadcasts / allows a listener to it's IP

0 6949985 over 1 year ago in reply to jim_m_58

Yes, I understand what those methods do. Was hoping there was another method I had not found in the docs that allowed listening, or that there is a way to 'listen' or otherwise get data from a phone app

0 jim_m_58 over 1 year ago in reply to 6949985

You could do a companion app on the phone using one of the CIQ mobile SDKs, then use the APIs in Communications to talk to the companion app.

0 6949985 over 1 year ago

Been messing around with SignalK which would provide API for this - but Garmin doesn't allow HTTP even to local network or localhost which is silly. I get best practices over the internet should be HTTPS but on a local network for consumer stuff? it's pretty hard to get signed certificates on stuff like this.

Developing on Connect IQ is really disappointing. Probably why there aren't really great apps to add

0 steveg3152 over 1 year ago

I'd go the route of a companion app on your phone. Something that could be backgrounded and listening for the NMEA data, and then sending it through the companion app messaging protocol.