How do I add my ship to be a station ?

[William Krukowski]

I recently met a couple on a sailing catamaran. Their anemometer data shows up on Windy.com. What equipment do i need to have my own vessel show up on Windy.com

[Lure]

@William-Krukowski This is very easy if you have Signal K on your boat network.

I have Victron Cerbo GX to monitor my boat electrical system and it has special Large firmware which includes Signal K open source software.

What I did:

• connect Cerbo GX to Garmin NMEA2000 via VE-Can to NMEA2000 cable
• install Large firmware on Cerbo, enable Signal K
• I have my Garmin network always on (I just turn off all GMI displays and plotters with power off key): this provides me heading, wind, depth and AIS data on NMEA 2000 network
• On Signal K I had to
  • install Signal K Windy plugin
  • install Derived Data plugin to calculate wind.directionGround
    (from boat heading and wind angle)

And now I have my own windy station and I always know exact situation on my boat from Windy.