We started developing iKommunicate back in 2015 to be the first commercial Signal K (Marine Open Data Format) on the market, as part of a successful Kickstarter Campaign. Signal K was at a very early stage of its development and had not even reached a stable V1.00.

Digital Yacht were the first commercial company to support Signal K and we helped the core team of open source developers to make the final push to release Signal K V1.00, actively working on the specification, branding and website development.

Unfortunately, this level of involvement was unsustainable and when one of our iKommunicate Engineers retired and another went off to start his own business, we had to “freeze” further development. iKommunicate is still a good gateway product and for many people who just want a unit that works but do not want the latest cutting edge functionality, it is a good choice. It is also a very good gateway for the popular Rosepoint Coastal Explorer software for PCs.

In recent years, we have had reports that a change in the way the Signal K server initiates a websocket connection has broken compatibility with iKommunicate which uses the V1.00 Signal K APIs. We believe there is a work around to this, but you would need to contact Teppo Kurki or Scott Bender, on the core SK development team to discover what that is.

For anyone wanting to keep up with the cutting edge functionality of the latest Signal K developments, we have an upgrade program for all iKommunicate owners, that provides a 30% discount voucher for one of our iKonvert or NAVLink2 gateways. Both of these units are NMEA 2000 certified gateways which the Signal K developers have implemented and which work very well with the Signal K server…..

https://digitalyacht.net/2021/02/23/signal-k-opencpn-digital-yacht/

Please contact sales@digitalyacht.co.uk if you would like to know more about the upgrade program.

Hi Paul,

We started developing iKommunicate back in 2015 and it was the first commercial product to support Signal K. Digital Yacht also helped with the final push to release Signal K V1.00, actively working on the specification, branding and website development.

Unfortunately, this level of involvement was unsustainable and when one of our iKommunicate Engineers retired and another went off to start his own business, we had to “freeze” further development. iKommunicate is still a good gateway product and for many people who just want a unit that works but do not want the latest cutting edge functionality, it is a good choice.

It is clear that you want more functionality than iKommunicate can really provide and I think you would be better off using Raspberry Pi type hardware, running the latest Open Source Signal K Server, being supplied NMEA 2000 data via one of our iKonverts or NAVLink2. Both of these units are NMEA 2000 certified gateways that the developers of CANBoat and CANBoatJS have implemented and which work very well with the Signal K server…..

https://digitalyacht.net/2021/02/23/signal-k-opencpn-digital-yacht/

You will then be able to access pretty much all of the data on the NMEA 2000 network and access it via HTTP RestAPIs.

We know how much you like to tweak, change and fiddle with settings, but sometimes it can create problems and to ensure that you can recover your iKommunicate, we have devised a simple way to reset the unit back to its original factory defaults. Only the settings will be reset, any new software update will still be applied.

There are two methods to factory reset an iKommunicate.

1. Manual Factory Reset. Click here to download the instruction.
2. Factory Reset via Telnet. Click here to download the instruction.