I visited the Raymarine booth at the Toronto boat show. No firm answers, comments were made that the display portion may be based on Android, someone else thought that the base OS was a Linux variant BusyBox. I could understand BusyBox, it has been used for a while as an embedded OS in things like routers and TV set top boxes.
The new "Lighthouse" interface looked very good. I asked the rep about the use of touchscreens during heavy weather. I guess this had come up before, I got a demo of the Hybrid Touch units and how easy it was to lock / unlock the touch part. The suggestion was the dedicated fixed buttons had an advantage in some conditions. I was also interested in the night mode. From my experience mounting a chartplotter at the helm and using it at night quickly affects my night vision. Even with the screen switch to black / white or black / red ( full color at night is not very useful ) with the night reverse mode on ( background dark ) looking at it for a few moments causes a very noticeable reduction in night vision. How readable are the iPads / Android tablets at very low light levels? Can the apps be set down to monochrome and still be usable? Michael Brown Windburn C&C 30-1 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 09:18:32 -0500 From: "Marek Dziedzic" <dziedzi...@hotmail.com> To: <CnC-List@cnc-list.com> Subject: Stus-List Marine systems Message-ID: <blu177-ds7884458f7c35670c42734ce...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Steve, I think that the big issue is that the dedicated device is a much better controlled environment. For recreational boaters, this may not matter that much, but if you are a commercial boat skipper, you may want to have confidence that this particular instrument won?t go suddenly into a BSOD only because you installed an app for watching movies or playing music. So it is a question of controlling the environment well. >From what I have seen, I don?t think Garmin and al develop their own OSs. More >than likely they get commercially developed OSs (like the Blackberry?s QNX) >and modify it slightly (or more than slightly) to fit their needs. Having said all of the above, I fully agree with you. Marek
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