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AISradar View

This document is about AIS Radar View plugin (Ais-radar)

• What and Why
• Installation
• Standard Actions
• Operation
• Remarks

Links

• Source: Github Repository - Nohal branch "Packaging"
• Source Original:Original Github Repository
• Forum: AIS Radar Plugin

What and Why

A. What does AIS Radar-pi do

AIS RADAR is a plugin that allows you to display AIS targets in the way ships are displayed on a radar screen.

Note: Do not confuse this with the additional supplements that overlap the Ship's radar screen on the OpenCPN screen.

B. Why should I want it?

If you want a simple screen, showing only the AIS targets, AIS Radar can be just what you are looking for.

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Installation

Note: In this section the instructions are specifically for AIS Radar-pi, but there is a dedicated page in the manual with information about Downloading, Installing and Enabling Plugins in general. That dedicated page can be found here: Plugins - Install and Enable.

AIS-Radar-pi can be downloaded from https://www.opencpn.org/OpenCPN/info/downloadplugins.html

Click "Downloads"

Click "Plugins for OpenCPN 4.2 & 4.4"

Look for "AIS Radar View""

B. How to install the plug-in

Make sure you choose the file that is compatible with your computersystem. In this manual we presume it's Windows, so we choose the Windows setup-package.
Download the file (double-click).

We assume you know where to find the files you download from the Internet (if you don't: quit now and read the manual of your computer before doing anything else with it m(.

Double-click the downloaded file and follow the set-up instructions.

That's it. But before you can actually use the plug-in, you first have to enable that plug-in in OpenCPN.

Enabling the plug-in in OpenCPN

Open (or restart) OpenCPN.

Click Tools-Options-Plugins

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