Launch Triton Nav, the display should look like this:
The Survey Control Panel on the right side should be visible - if it is not go to the View Menu and check the settings, if you are unable to turn it on because the option is grayed out, this is a licensing issue - contact Triton.
Click the serial port setup button:
The Serial Ports setup dialog appears:
Notes:
In this configuration we are using COM1, the data type is NMEA0183.
Important: The entry "NOCLOCK" should be made as shown if the same PC is being used for Isis acquisition, to prevent the PC clock being synched from two sources. (Isis / MBSS by default will set the local PC clock to the navigation time)
It is also a very good idea to set all system times to be UTC (Choose Casablanca/Monrovia in the Windows time Zone setting)
Click the Show Server button to launch the serial server:
Initially the server launches minimized to the windows task bar, click the Icon to display the server:
1. For the selected COM port (in this case COM1) hit the Setup button:
Select the correct Baud rate and other settings as shown (default baud rate for NMEA0183 is 4800)
Hit OK,
2. Turn the Com Port On:
3. Click the Spy button to display the raw NMEA0183 information in the Serial Server window. The information will scroll for aboput 1 minute as a check that data is being received from the COM port.
In this case we are sending $GGA, $VTG, and $HDT
The minimum required string would be GGA for position (or GLL, RMA, RMC),
$VTG gives Course and Speed, $HDT gives vessel Heading.
Back in the Triton Map main window Click the Connect button:
This activates the output of data from the Serial Server to TritonMap. The following dialog will appear:
All information in the Triton Map window is projected - the default projection used is UTMs click Next
In this case the Longitude of the navigation is 133deg W - we select Zone 8.
And also WGS84 (almost all GPS receivers use the WGS84 datum)
If all is well the default vessel shape will appear in the middle of the screen, and the position will begin to update.
The default behavior for the vessel heading is to compute the orientation of the vessel from the navigation, if Heading information is being sent (as in this case using the $HDT string) we can choose to use this for the vessel orientation. Click the Heading Icon to display the compass window, then RIGHT click in the Compass window to display the heading options:
