wifi sounder to your smartphone or tablet

[myusernam]

http://www.fishusa.com/Product/Vexil...e-Sonar-System

check it out - click on video on the left.

[chocolatemoose]

its begun!!! o-O

[JulianDeMarchi]

raymarine have had this for awhile. While the units costs 1.5K upwards, it does wifi transmit to your phone with the raymarine app. I think I'd prefer my 7inch touch screen with the option of wifi.

[myusernam]

in a few years you'll be able to buy super cheap waterproof tablets with huge screen sizes and wifi to your transducer and just pay navionics their $15 a year for gps functionality.
Wont be beholden to companies charging big bucks to use their proprietry MFD's or combo units.

[Fed]

I downloaded the app & gave it a run, very cool.
Here's a couple of screenshots & camera shots along with navionics HD running on a nexus 7.

[fandtm666]

raymarine have had this for awhile. While the units costs 1.5K upwards, it does wifi transmit to your phone with the raymarine app. I think I'd prefer my 7inch touch screen with the option of wifi.

yep my raymarine e7d has this option and works well

[myusernam]

yep my raymarine e7d has this option and works well

lowrance even have wifi display mimicking and control. But you need to buy it all first.

This is a wifi transducer. No black box unit even. just a normal looking transom transducer with a power cable. SO all you need to buy is the transducer

[eugah]

I have it on my Raymarine C127, can also control my gps/sounder from my phone or ipad as well via the rayremote app

Adrian

[Fed]

But can you do it without the sounder head unit Adrian?

That's the whole point, if you have a tablet then all you need is a transducer at USD $140 by memory.

Same with Navionics at about $40.

The hunt is on for the cheapest wifi gps 10" android tablet.

[honda900]

Garmin and lowrance have the capabilities as well, Garmin free, lowrance a couple of hundred to get the same kind of features.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...lowrancegofree
Might be kinda fun, playing with some of the Blowflies, devices remotely...


Regards
Honda.

[thelump]

You're an evil nerd Honda!

[chocolatemoose]

i really urge all people considering it to see if the lag of wifi is ok. if you can put up with it.. cool go for it.

[ozscott]

What is the lag time...a second? I don't know

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[myusernam]

What is the lag time...a second? I don't know

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I doubt there woud be anything in it. Processing wise any tablet would pretty well blow away any sounder nowadays/ particulary a basic colour sounder. Then there is just the wifi propegation delay which is no worse than a wired transducer .

[Fed]

My house runs on wifi and it seems fast enough, get onboard Moose and import some samples.

I found a 10" gps android tablet for ~$150 delivered.

Looks like the whole deal could be done for around $350, not bad for a 10" GPS plotter/depth sounder.