Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎Why yes, Garmin did use a box, a padded sleeve, a cardboard sleeve, and some airbag packaging to send me an SD card. 🙄
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That's so mysterious. Were the one handling tbe cost of that delivery?
That's so mysterious. Were the one handling tbe cost of that delivery?
@nuwagaba2 Shipping was free but the card cost $119 + tax. It has chart updates for all of North America.
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That's also a big pay it's over 400000ugx which has a very big purchasing power. How often do you pay for that?
That's also a big pay it's over 400000ugx which has a very big purchasing power. How often do you pay for that?
Bredroll@Bredroll I used to be able to download it and use a specialized app to get it on a compatible SD card. But now the app doesn't work and this is the only option. What a total waste of time, materials, and money.
Bryan Haskin@bhhaskin @Bredroll All my devices on board are Garmin. I actually LIKE Garmin’s Interface. I don’t know what OpenCPN is, but I do know that Navionics won’t interface with my autopilot to drive my boat or my engine computer to provide fuel consumption and range info.
And you know Navionics is a Garmin product, right?
I was just pointing out the waste of using so much packaging material and obviously overpaying to ship an SD card, especially when I used to be able to download the product.
@mlanger @Bredroll I do know that Navionics was bought by Garmin. OpenCPN is an open source chart plotter. It can interface with most things as well. (Mine has AIS targets and hooks up to the autopilot. I don't have radar currently, but when I add it, it will be OpenCPN compatible.
Don't get me wrong; Garmin's stuff is generally great, just spendy. I choose to go with openCPN due to it running on consumer hardware like tablets, phones and raspberry pis.
@bhhaskin @Bredroll I just want it to work. My days of playing with hardware and software to make it jump through hoops are long gone.
One of the hardest parts about selling this boat and buying a new, bigger, likely older one is that I’ll lose the amazing system I have now, a system I have not seen on any other boat. I don’t want to have to rebuild this system on another boat; it would likely cost in excess of $50K to be done right.
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