| Garmin (Fmr. Vesper) Cortex Marine VHF and AIS system. In 2022 Garmin [[https://www.garmin.com/en-US/newsroom/press-release/corporate/garmin-acquires-vesper-marine-a-leading-provider-of-marine-communication-equipment-and-services/|purchaced]] Vesper Marine and with that, development slowed. Cortex system owners are far and few, but the majority seem to find the integration of VHF 2-way radio, AIS, WiFi, and NMEA interfaces compelling. However, the hardware and software is a bit lacking. We seek to unlock functionality original to the Vesper roadmap and beyond. Unlike the typical marine hardware from Garmin, closed source with proprietary interfaces, the Cortex was built with a relatively open stack of extensible software. The speaker mics handsets (the main user interface for this radio) runs a vanilla Android SBC and the interface to the Hub is standard WiFi Ethernet. With APK binaries are available, aka, Cortex Onboard, it's worth investigating what features can be harnessed, reimagined or simply integrated to other systems. | Garmin (Fmr. Vesper) Cortex Marine VHF and AIS system. In 2022 Garmin [[https://www.garmin.com/en-US/newsroom/press-release/corporate/garmin-acquires-vesper-marine-a-leading-provider-of-marine-communication-equipment-and-services/|purchaced]] Vesper Marine and with that, development slowed. Cortex system owners are far and few, but the majority seem to find the integration of VHF 2-way radio, AIS, WiFi, and NMEA interfaces compelling. However, the hardware and software is a bit lacking. We seek to unlock functionality original to the Vesper roadmap and beyond. Unlike the typical marine hardware from Garmin, closed source with proprietary interfaces, the Cortex was built with a relatively open stack of extensible software. The speaker mics handsets (the main user interface for this radio) runs a vanilla Android SBC and the interface to the Hub is standard WiFi Ethernet. With APK binaries are available, aka, Cortex Onboard, it's worth investigating what features can be harnessed, reimagined or simply integrated to other systems. |
| Wouldn't it be nice to have a H1P handset in your pocket. A handset that is actually waterproof and not full of terrible buttons that fail after a year out at sea? How about being able to stream the VHF radio audio to any device via WiFi Ethernet? Or do you simply want to read some sensor data that the M1 hub is capturing already and integrate it to your boat's SignalK network? The flaws of the OEM software and hardware should not stop us from utilizing the good parts of the system that we already own. | Wouldn't it be nice to have a H1P handset in your pocket. A handset that is actually waterproof and not full of terrible buttons that fail after a year out at sea? How about being able to stream the VHF radio audio to any device via WiFi Ethernet? Or do you simply want to read some sensor data that the M1 hub is capturing already and integrate it to your boat's [[https://signalk.org|SignalK]] network? The flaws of the OEM software and hardware should not stop us from utilizing the good parts of the system that we already own. |
