Unable to display engine RPM

[Kupofty]

Security Priority

• This is a report related to Security

Installation checklist

I have installed the software for which I am reporting the issues from:

• This repo's Releases
• Your own fork and build Link
• OpenCPN's plug-in manager
  • Plug-in manager issue reported in CF DashT thread

Specifications

• OpenCPN Version: 5.9.0
• DashT Version: v1.7.61
• Operating System :
  • Windows
  • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • RPI
    • Debian
    • Fedora
    • Other: ____
• Operating System Version : Xubuntu20

Problem

Publishing XDR sentence to OpenCPN from C++ software.
OpenCPN dashboard tactics is supposed to display the engine's RPM (Eng1 RPM) but nothing is displayed.

My NMEA sentence is the following (seen from NMEA Debug Window) :
$IIXDR,T,my_rpm_value,R,ENGINE#0*checksum<0x0D><0x0A>
I also tried with "ENGINE#1", "ENGINE0", "ENGINE1" but nothing changed.

I didn't find any documentation for this XDR sentence & plugin (links are dead or does not provide an example with the desired values like type, unit, name) so I used the following doc : SignalK/signalk-to-nmea0183#99 thinking it would work the same way.
Any help would be appreciated !

NB : This works fine with the "Main RPM" gauge from engine dashboard plugin

[rgleason]

Kupofty, This plugin is slowly becoming depreciated, however many of the Tactics features (similar to Sailsteer) need to be implemented in Dashboard and DashboardSK. I am very much hoping they will be implemented.

I am just a maintainer of this plugin and have managed to keep it built for multiple OS for quite awhile. I hope that more capable programmers will move this code into Dashboard and DashboardSK soon!!!

Then perhaps we can move the relevant documentation into those plugins documentation.

Thanks for your report.

[Kupofty]

Hello rgleason,

Thanks for maintaining this plugin.
I understand, I'll wait and hope these features will be integrated in the dashboard plugin ! Some of the widgets are super useful and missing from the main dashboard..

Best regards