The PiLot is a Raspberry Pi based system for boating. It's used with any device having a browser and wifi. It's completely autonomous and works perfectly without internet access. All data is fully controlled by the owner, as it's stored locally in simple formats and thus easily accessible.
Maps
- Offline maps (osm and openseamap)
- GPS Position on the map
- Historic track on the map
- Course and speed over ground vector
- Waypoints on the map, showing distance, bearing and ETA
- POIs (points of interest): manage manually and import from OSM
- Anchor alarm
Routes
- Define an unlimited number of routes
- Each route can have any number of waypoints
- The route shows total distance, distance and bearing between each waypoint
GPS data
- Position
- COG (course over ground)
- SOG (speed over ground)
- VMC (velocity made good on course)
- XTE (cross track error)
Logbook
- Create logbook entries automatically fed with meteo and GPS data
- Select boat setup (engine, sails etc, freely configurable) for each logbook entry
- Create a logbook entry with one click, e.g. when leaving port or setting sails
- Visualize the boat setup with freely configurable boat images
Diary
- Show logbook, diary text, track and photos for one day on the diary page
Meteo
- Show actual and historic sensor data
- Temperature
- Air pressure, with 48h barograph and trend indicator
- Humidity
- Moon phase
Entertainment
- Games
- eBook library
Other
- User interface language: english or german
- Export track as GPX, CSV, JSON or tabular data
- Import TCX data
- Download offline maps for any desired region and detail level
- Publish diary data to any other pilot
- Online live tracking
- Configurable Boattime (when moving from one timezone to the other)
- User management with specific permission levels
- Night mode
- Responsive user interface adapting to all sizes of screens
Map with route, waypoint information, track, position and cog-vector:
Navigation data with waypoints:
Diary page:
Meteo page with all environment sensor data:
If you have a bit of time and curiosity, you can set up your own PiLot at no cost (except the hardware). You will end up having a free and open system to plan, track and relive your adventures on the water.
BE AWARE that the PiLot does in no way replace neither reliable, professional navigation equipment nor up-to-date charts. The PiLot might be wrong, or might even fail entirely.
See Getting started for Users for further details.
If you feel like contributing to the PiLot ecosystem, then you are more than welcome. It's just HTML, vanilla Javascript and dotnet core with C#. No bloat, no frameworks, just straightforward code. All you need is your favourite IDE, the dotnet SDK, a webserver (such as nginx) and git. See Getting started for developers for further details.
Using the PiLot on a kayak at night (for those who can't afford a proper yacht):
