Cold, wet and thundery

It's cold, wet and thundery here in Cyprus. Not the weather for being outside doing woodwork or in King Malu sanding woodwork with the for'ard hatch open letting in the rain.

So today I will try to rebuild the position plotting system having moved it to another server. Basically when you click the button on the spot device it receives a code at the control centre and you can configure it to send out either SMS or emails to whoever you want. One of the addresses will be a specially set up gmail account.

So I will then download that formatted email message, setting it up to check every 15 minutes for new emails, extract the lat/lon and using gmapez plot the position on Google maps,  which displays at the top of this blog.

We are very impressed with the Spot Locator system buying into the technology very early on. Recently Spot have brought out a new system called HUG, which is specifically designed for boats.

This system can be integrated into the yacht system to also send alerts if the boat is stolen and also four monitors for things like battery, water increase in the bilges or other sensors of your choice.