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To program the Device, enter a special string starting with “YD:” to the installation description field 2
in the Device properties. For example, “YD:DEV 1” (without quotes) will change the NMEA 2000 device
instance of the Device to 1. If the command is accepted by the Device, it will add “ DONE” to the entered text
and “YD:DEV 1 DONE” will be displayed in the case of our example. Note that the Device always accepts
correct strings regardless of the current settings, etc.
In Figure 1 on the previous page, you can see the process of programming the Device with free
CAN Log Viewer software (to open this window, select the item "NMEA 2000 Devices" in the "View"
menu, refresh the list of devices, select the device and click "Properties" button). You can download
this program (runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux) at
http://www.yachtd.com/downloads/
,
Yacht Devices NMEA 2000 Wi-Fi Gateway or Yacht Devices NMEA 2000 USB Gateway is required
to connect the PC with NMEA 2000 network.
In the software you can also modify the NMEA 2000 device instance by entering a value in the dedicated
field (see "Address Claim" group on the screenshot).
After entering the command as shown in Figure 1 (click "Update" button to apply changes), the value
in the "Device Instance" field will be changed to 1, and “Installation Details 2” field will be changed
to “YD:DEV 1 DONE”.
The full list of special strings is in Table 1. Please see the PGN description in Table 2 of previous chapter.
Note 1:
This setting stops the transmission of data, but does not stop the transmission
of corresponding messages. Please see previous chapter for details.
