The WatchMate app connects to your WatchMate Vision® or XB-8000 over WiFi to place remote control functionality and AIS situational awareness in the palm of your hand.
Features when connected to your WatchMate Vision or an XB-8000:
- Displays your AIS targets on an AIS plotter screen in heading or north up orientation.
- Mange your collision prevention alarm profiles.
- Graphically displays the crossing situation for each vessel's CPA and TCPA.
- Generates MOB alarms from received AIS SART, MOB and EPIRB targets.
- Instantly acquires target details including cached vessel names.Displays your AIS targets in a list view enabling sorts by priority, CPA, TCPA and range.
- Anchor Watch alarming.
- Display and control your Anchor Watch alarm settings.
- Continuously monitor Collision Prevention, MOB and Anchor Watch alarms generated from your WatchMate Vision or XB-8000, even when the app is closed.
- View your own GPS position, course and speed.
- View your NMEA 2000 or NMEA 0183 data (e.g. depth, wind speed, heading).
- Control the type of data on your NMEA 0183 output.
- Switch easily between AIS silent mode and normal transmitting mode.
- Configure your vessel's AIS Static data. (MMSI, call sign, vessel type, vessel size).
- Diagnostic tools to help with GPS and AIS antenna installation.
- Diagnostic tools for connectivity to other devices over NMEA 0183 or NMEA 2000.
- Test your external alarm is working.
- Run simulations to get familiar with device and app features.
- Perform firmware upgrades.
Additional features when connected to a WatchMate Vision:
- Filter vessels of low priority to reduce clutter on the plotter view.
The complex nature of our innovative WatchMate app makes coding mishaps difficult to eliminate despite the superhuman efforts of our developers, so please remember we do not warrant that this product is error-free. As the adventurous user it’s your job to exercise common sense and the best navigational judgement you can muster up. Although we think the WatchMate app is awesome nothing beats using all your human senses, so rely on these as much as you rely on the WatchMate app for making navigational safety decisions. Our advice is; even with the WatchMate app it’s still a clever idea to maintain a permanent watch and use more than one aid for navigation.
All good. Great product and app
Android app alarm is almost inaudible. I have been using this for many years, and just learned how to set the anchor alarm--by reading the detailed instructions only the for iOS app! I would like to use the alarm on the phone near me when I sleep at anchor, but the alrm sound is a single beep and 3 vibrations. NOT LOUD ENOUGH!. I seem to remember the under weigh alarm for nearby vessels being a loud ship's horn sound. How do I get a louder anchor alarm on the Phone?
Not possible to remotely monitor ais or nema 2000 data. Dont waste money on the xb 800 it can only LOCALLY monitor your ais and nema data. If you have any need to remotely monitor your vesel info this will not work. Just buy the vesper cortex dont be an idiot like me.
Great app but I Uninstalled it after it repeatedly shut down. My phone says it has a bug.
Another company that just doesn't take their responsibility to their customers seriously. Firmware update does not work. When you enable automatic updates, the app crashes on startup. I won't be purchasing any more Vesper Marine products, and will be telling all of my fellow mariners to avoid the company at all costs.
Another company that just doesn't take their responsibility to their customers seriously. Firmware update does not work. When you enable automatic updates, the app crashes on startup. I won't be purchasing any more Vesper Marine products, and will be telling all of my fellow mariners to avoid the company at all costs.
Very limated functions. Firmware update is a black whole best guess did anything take place? Not new situation been like this for years. Since i used this app to check and update firmware my screen has been nothing but trouble needing calibration regularly. Unable to reload old firmware or reset unit. Vesper has unloaded problems to Germin another sellout real option on firmware unlikely.
Misc bug fixes
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