How to interface the KBox and signalk-server-node?

1. Make sure canboat is installed on your linux host.

   $ analyzer
   INFO 2017-09-01T03:22:35.813Z [analyzer] N2K packet analyzer
   (C) 2009-2015 Keversoft B.V., Harlingen, The Netherlands
   For more information see https://github.com/canboat/canboat
   
   This file is part of CANboat.
   

2. Configure signalk-server-node json configuration file in settings/my_little_boat.json (see example below)

3. Start signalk-server-node!

   ./bin/my_little_boat
   

Troubleshooting

If you need to troubleshoot your setup, you can get signalk debug data by exporting a DEBUG environment variable before starting signalk:

 export DEBUG=signalk-provider-tcp

Or if you want more info:

 export DEBUG=*

Configuration file

Example configuration file to enable receiving NMEA and NMEA2000 sentences from KBox:

{
        "vessel": {
                "name"  : "Hotel Catalina",
                "brand" : "Catalina",
                "type"  : "36",
                "uuid"  : "urn:mrn:signalk:uuid:c0d79334-4e25-4245-8892-54e8ccc8021d"
        },
        "interfaces": {
                "rest": true,
                "ws": true,
                "bower": true
        },
        "pipedProviders": [{
                "id": "nmeaFromTCP",
                "pipeElements": [
                {
                        "type": "providers/tcp",
                        "options": {
                        "host": "192.168.32.10",
                        "port": "10110"
                        }
                },
                {
                        "type": "providers/liner"
                },
                {
                        "type": "providers/n2kAnalyzer"
                },
                {
                        "type": "providers/n2k-signalk"
                }
                ]
        }]
}

Credit

Page contributed by ludo. Thanks a lot!