Wegmatt LLC

2,809 orders since May 20, 2015

Redmond, WA, United States of America

Ships from United States of America.

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Product: (4.77)

Documentation: (4.48)

Shipping: (4.62)

Communication: (4.78)

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Benjamin | Sept. 11, 2018

Simply works

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Tested using usb on a laptop with a low grade VHF antenna and it worked flawlessly first time.

Looking forward to wiring it into the NMEA Navnet when our boat is next alongside.

Maury | Aug. 14, 2018

Great little Receiver.

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Get great AIS reception from this little box connected to lap top. Easy to hook up and quickly ID's boats. Helps spot the shrimp boats in the Gulf before we head out to go fishing.

Guido | July 19, 2018

VHF receiver sensitivity

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We used the unit onboard a pleasure craft, powered through USB connection, displayed by open CP 4.0.0, connected to different VHF antennas:
the unit cannot receive signal beyond 2 nmiles
in this condition it is useless to us

Sincerely,
Guido Gay

Response from Wegmatt LLC | July 20, 2018

Hi Guido,

I'm sorry to hear about your disappointment. I agree that 2 NM is below the expected performance. There are several reasons that could limit range, including the possibility of a defective unit. I will reach out to you by email to discuss further.

Best Regards,
Adrian

Trevor | July 18, 2018

A very happy customer.

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Hi Adrian,

I would just like to share my thoughts on your dAISy AIS receiver. I have now had some time to play with it and have found it to be very good. It was easy to set up, just follow the instructions and you can't go wrong. I also bought a WiFi transmitter from Ali Express for a few dollars which also works well. As I have no experience with other AIS receivers I can't compare its functionality but I have been using it with Open CPN and it works well on my laptop, android tablet and Samsung phone. It seems to acquire targets fastest on my phone. Thanks for a very nice product at an affordable price.

Regards

Trev

William | July 10, 2018

I used the dAISy HAT to build a OpenPlotter

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I found the HAT to be well documented my only wish was that the i2c and 2nd serial had their pins pre soldered (I hate soldering small things)

But everything went smoothly for my project and I will probably be building another OpenPlotter for a mate.

ps. along with i2c and 2nd Serial, why not also add the 2x10 male pins on top of the HAT so that users can stack HATs on top of the current HAT.

Klaus | July 2, 2018

Excellent product

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I am really happy with this tiny little AIS receiver. There is only one point which could be improved: I have written a software which automatically detects connected receivers like GPS, AIS etc. independent of port and baudrate. This is easy with GPS because GPS sends every second a message even if no satellites are in view. Unfortunately dAISy does not send any message when no AIS message is received. It would be much easier to detect the dAISy port, if at least a state message would be send every 5 seconds. Currently I detect dAISy by sending an ESC character to the available ports to get an answer. But this is not a very safe method because I have to ensure to reset dAISy to receive mode.
Nevertheless an excellent product!

Response from Wegmatt LLC | July 5, 2018

Thank you for your review and feedback. Sending a regular status message is a good idea! I will think about how I can incorporate that into a future version of the firmware.

James | June 27, 2018

Tiny but packs a huge punch

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We waffled about buying a dAISy for an upcoming trip. We thought of all the people who don't have AIS reception and figured that we would be fine without spending the extra bit of cash. A friend convinced us to go ahead and pull the trigger with a story about sitting in thick fog with an invisible container ship only half a mile away.

So we went ahead and bought it. It was incredibly easy to hook up to OpenCPN (running on a Chromebook in a Linux environment). The documentation was clear and concise, and we saw ships miles away within minutes. Now, a week into our trip, we've been thankful for the AIS reception on multiple occasions.

John | June 4, 2018

best value over other ais systems

For dAISy 2+ dual-channel AIS Receiver with NMEA 0183

Was easy to install and wire up. instructions were helpful. is working and showing targets clearly, have not used extensively as yet. will update after a long sailing voyage. shipping was wierd and long. i live in vancouver canada , went from redmond to seattle to los angeles . ??? then to vancouver.

Ron | May 16, 2018

Would recomend

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Excellent Value for money I have only had it installed for a few days and have found it works just as expected through an ariel splitter. The only area that I haven't tested properly yet is the bluetooth function as the module I purchased seperately appears to have pins in a differen't sequence to the output on the Daisy. I will investigate further when I get the time. In the meantime the hardwired outlets to computer and plotter are all I need and working well.

Response from Wegmatt LLC | May 16, 2018

Thank you for your review :-)
Note, that serial pin connections are typically labelled from the perspective of the device. TX on dAISy denotes, that data is transmitted from this pin. RX on the Bluetooth module indicates, that it expects to receive data on that pin. Therefore RX/TX need to be crossed when connecting two devices, i.e. connect dAISy TX to Bluetooth RX, and dAISy RX to Bluetooth TX.

Sven | May 14, 2018

All time a success story!

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I bought daisy a few years ago, and it still performs well. No I ordered the filters, with fast shipment.
All time perfect support!

Thanks a lot!

Weld | May 11, 2018

excellent response to my needs

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I bought the daisy 2+ on a recommend from a friend who is very satisfied with his. my more techie friend additionally reported excellent guidance from Adrian on tech issues.
Unfortunately I ended up not being able to use the device. I decided instead to install an AIS B transponder which Adrian does not carry.

Adrian immediately responded, i returned the daisy to him and he refunded my money right away. you can feel comfortable doing business with Adrian.

weld

Art | May 6, 2018

A fantastic little device!!

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Connected device to my laptop, and fitted a small tuned aerial from London Chartplotters to the dAISy. I stuck the aerial on the sprayhood of the boat. It was a simple configure to set up the usb port on Polar Navy software..... Hey Presto!! Out in the Solent 5NM range... loads of ships, ferrys etc all over the chart!! Weĺl done Adrian and thanks to Steve for advice. I fully endorse this product.

Klaas J | May 1, 2018

Good and easy to install!

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I bought this product in order to function as a stand-alone AIS receiver, by using Wifi and a tablet. I ordered a Wifi module as suggested in the documentation, which arrived a few days after the dAISy. Installation of the dAISy was very easy: slide in the Wifi module, power the module from the USB on board, connect a VHF antenna and ready! The biggest problem was finding an appropriate app on the tablet or iPad that could plot the data without using charts, in other words, as a sort of radar. On the tablet, I installed OpenCPN (without charts; free); it can show the position of your ship in the center of the screen and installation is very easy. On the iPad, I installed "AIS Radar" (€7,99), which appears to be the only app available for the iPad if you want to plot the data on a radar-like screen. Installation was easy and it functions well. Both tablets use their internal GPS (you have to enter that in the settings of the app). With the VHF antenna in the mast, I received AIS signals up to more than 24 km distance. With a VHF antenna at 3 m height, reception was up to about 12 miles, which I think is quite good! Overall, the value for money of this product is very good, even with shipping to Europe and taxes. Commercial products are about 3 times more expensive!

Johannes | April 23, 2018

Amazing

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Works perfect with Glomex RA 201 and Raymarine A50 Plotter. Communication to the plotter with simple two wire connection via NMEA 0183. Shipping to Germany was good. The package was helt at Customs in Frankfurt Airport for about 2 weeks, but i didn't had to pay any taxes or customs.

Neil | April 11, 2018

Great receiver at an amazing price

For dAISy HAT - AIS Receiver for Raspberry Pi

The dAISy Hat is an easy to use AIS receiver with great range. For the cost of the dAISy Hat and Raspberry Pi you can duplicate networked AIS receivers that cost $400+ with the same range. The developer is awesome when it comes to communication and support for the project. There is a lot of documentation Online making it easy to up even if you have never worked with Raspberry Pi before.

Jose | April 9, 2018

Very good. OK

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My experience has been good with Tindie.
The attention, exquisite, good service and very good product.
The only thing that must be taken into account is the OpenCPN version, since from 3.2.0, it is more complicated to configure ports and plugins.

Jeffrey | March 21, 2018

E80 Chart Plotter install

For dAISy 2+ dual-channel AIS Receiver with NMEA 0183

Installed the dAISy 2 along with an antenna splitter on my older E80 chartplotter. Had to reprogram the baud rate on the dAISy 2. Works like a champ.

Ivan | March 18, 2018

Great product!

For dAISy 2+ dual-channel AIS Receiver with NMEA 0183

Works without any problems on computer using USB connection. Also, I have tested it on Garmin GpsMap 421s, using NMEA connection - with success.

Mark | March 18, 2018

Great AIS receiver!!

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This Daisy receiver Is amazing, easy to hook up, Very sensitive using a metz Marine antenna I am getting well over 60 nm! Service was awesome,

Markus | March 14, 2018

dAISy is perfect with OpenCPN

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Hi
I'm running OpenCPN on Raspberry Pi and wanted to get AIS traffic visible.
dAISy was easy to set up .. on linux screen I went to dAISy settings and chose only channel A ..saved settings.
Then new connection ... OpenCPN / connections / new /dev/tty/ACM1 baudrate 38400
and wait some time to get AIS targets visible. At the time of testing I have no proper antenna ... just one meter or about three feet of copper wire as antenna and I can see traffic 11 kilometers away.
Good product .. I will buy another when I need it .. and I will recommend this to a person who is looking AIS receiver.
Cheers ... M.Kantola ...Finland

Robert | March 10, 2018

Correction to previous review

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I just wanted to correct one comment on my previous review. This unit DOES visually show CPA. I don't know why I missed this but I am very happy with this unit and would highly recommend it.

Robert | March 9, 2018

Great, inexpensive device

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Bought this to replace a device made in Uk that was enclosed in a cheesy thin plastic case that broke from the weight/pressure of antenna connection and shorted out. To be fair had I been aware of the thinness of the plastic I would have treated it like China. This device is encased in an aluminum housing that you could step on with no adverse effect. The best part is for $5 you can add a wireless card and have the functionality of a $300 unit! Those are all the pluses of this gem. My wish list would be to have the visual CPA that the English unit had as in a busy harbor visual information allows for quicker assessment of the big boys that are a danger to my punny craft.

Jay | March 7, 2018

Awesome device in such a small package!

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Connected this little baby to a old magnetic cell antenna, a FME to BNC coupler, the power and hooked it up to a Macbook running OpenCPN. Followed the directions to open a port, and Presto! Up and running in a matter of minutes.

Took it to work on a commercial vessel and used it to keep an eye on things while other mates were on the bridge.

I was so impressed with it that I showed it to others and they placed their orders.

Thank you for such an awesome little device!

Jay

Frank | Feb. 20, 2018

Plug and play out of the box - amazing

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Great little device that I now use with my Raspberry PI running kplex , a furuno GP32 and a glomex RA201 splitter to get AIS data to my ipad over wifi. Adding the dAISy to this setup was very, very simple. Just adding the /dev/ttyACM0 to the kplex.conf, restart the service and poof.. in business. AIS targets displayed..

Shipping was fairly quick, picked up the package at the post office after 10 days ro so to pay import duties, and documentation was clear. Even an email with additional instructions.

All in all great experience!

Paul | Jan. 27, 2018

Excellent product and service.

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I use the dAISY hat on a raspberry pi 3 with openCPN. I was pleased with the setup and got very prompt help from Adrian when I had a problem. (My own fault).
Delivery was good, my only complaint is the extra £18 I had to pay UK customs for the importation.

Cliff | Jan. 19, 2018

Great Product! Works Perfectly. Documentation Excellent.

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Can't say enough good things. Product works exactly as it should. Fantastic inexpensive AIS receiver with lots of options... USB and NMEA power sources make it perfect for on board USB connection to a lap top... or.... directly as a NMEA 0183 input to a larger network.

Adrian is available as needed and support was great to a couple of small questions I had. Prompt and Accurate support with great documentation.

If you are thinking AIS reception at a great price... this product is for you.

Roy | Jan. 8, 2018

Very pleased.

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Tested in my home. Received signals from boats up to 25 Nm. Used a good VHF antenna. Very pleased with the product.
Here in Norway there are lots of mountains, and I received signals from ships that were behind high mountains too.

Lauris | Jan. 1, 2018

everything works as expected

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Thank you

It was necessary to read the documentation several times, but otherwise all work as expected.

Lauris

Michael | Dec. 29, 2017

Does just what it is supposed to

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Worked great straight out of the box. Receiver is sensitive enough to pick up coded messages from 92nm away (OK I've got a good antenna, but the unit still needs to be low noise to be able to pick out the digital messages). Windows 10 and OpenCPN worked without a hitch. One thing you might find is that if you use the item plugged into a multiplexer powered only from the PC you might run out of power - works great on its own USB port, with external power or if the multiplexer has external power. Note this is not a fault on the DaisY, just something you might come across.

Shipping and enthusiasm from the suppliers was great.

Diego | Dec. 22, 2017

dAISy 2 Review

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Product is excellent! Easy to install, it´s working perfectly. Adrian answered inmediately and clearly all the questions.

Thomas | Dec. 20, 2017

The software drivers were too damn hard to set up!!

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I killed many hours over two days and it still does not sync with my Garmin 741xs. The 741 searches for it but does not find it. Yes, I do have the DT=06 WiFi moduale and the blue light works and the Daisy 2+ appears at the com port and the green lights flash at 5 seconds. The computer sees it but the 741 does not. I give up!!
The 741 does sync with the computer.

Response from Wegmatt LLC | Dec. 20, 2017

Hi Thomas,

I'm sorry to hear about your struggles. Please don't hesitate to send me an email if you need help resolving your issue (contact@wegmatt.com). Keep in mind, that the chartplotter will only see the AIS Receiver if there are AIS targets around you. Otherwise the receiver will stay silent.

Best Regards,
Adrian

Alfonso | Nov. 23, 2017

So easy to run

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I received the Daisy 2+, made a basic antenna (piece of wire abt 40 cm long ) conected to my tablet via OTG running OpenCPN and .....Thats all!!
All the ships in Cadiz bay (Spain) were there.
I had previously the Daisy 1 which also performs very well.
On the boat I will fit the Daisy 1 as the power consumption is so low.... although Daisy 2+ is low power consumption Daisy 1 is less than half.
I dont care very much to have a very long range reception on board, so Daisy 1 is my preferred option for the boat.
Now I want to connect Daisy 1 to my nmea network so I ordered the RS422 adapter but found is sold!!
I will wait for it!
Congratulations for so amazing products!!

Cameron | Nov. 17, 2017

dAISy 2+ is a great little AIS Reciever

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I'm very happy with my purchase of this little guy! Setup was quick and easy, the included instructions are great, the installation didn't break the bank, and I'm pulling in targets from 45 miles away!

I'm navigating my small (28') power boat on the Columbia river using the Open Captain software on my laptop. If you are planning on interfacing this AIS receiver with Open Captain, it couldn't be easier: A well written, and well illustrated procedure in the manual drives you through the process step by step.

I'm pulling AIS signals from the air with my 2M long VHF antenna. I'm using a Glomex RA201 splitter box which can be had for about $70 online:
http://www.glomex.it/leisure/eng/antenna-fm-RA201.php

Unlike its little brother, the dAISy 2+ is equipped with a 6-pin serial IO port connector on its panel that can connect to a DT-06 WiFi module. This was attractive to me as I wanted to connect the AIS receiver to my laptop wirelessly, no cables to run! I purchase the following module from Ebay for less than $5 for this purpose:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/DT-06-Wireless-Serial-TTL-WiFi-Transmission-Module-Bluetooth-HC-06-ESP-M2-Port/172808371440?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

Again setup for using this DT-06 module couldn't have been easier as the dAISy 2+ owners manual contains a a very thorough and complete treatment here as well.

I did a bit of pre-wiring of the three components together at home. I also pre-setup all the components using a 12V bench supply to power the various pieces. I spent an hour tops with all my pre-wiring and setup chores!

On the boat it was 5 minutes of plugging cables, adding a fuse to my panel, and I was then up and running. Bringing up Open Captain on my laptop I was seeing all of my AIS targets on screen: No futzing around, it just worked! And as I said, I was pulling in targets from 45 miles away.

If you are moderately handy with tools, and have a bit more than a very basic familiarity with computers, then getting the system working will be a total no brainer for you! Total cost of the installation for me was just $130 (as I got a very good real on the RA201).

I can't recommend this product strongly enough!

Response from Wegmatt LLC | Nov. 17, 2017

Thank you for the thorough review!

One caveat: There are AIS repeaters along the Columbia river, so the 45 miles of range may not be representative for different locations.

Jose | Oct. 25, 2017

Lots of features for an very reasonable price

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I am a marine roboticist and we have used this board to build portable AIS receivers (powerbank + raspberry pi 0 w) that we can bring with us on small vessels / vans to help us monitoring traffic around autonomous underwater vehicles.
The board has lots of features like monitoring RSSI, message filtering, baud rate selection, etc via simple user interface. You can see here a picture of the system we're using together with custom-made antenna: https://photos.app.goo.gl/k2eig6DBFqPIKgxJ2

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