WatchMate
Free App
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About WatchMate
The WatchMate app connects to your Vesper Marine 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 Vesper Marine does 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.
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 Vesper Marine does 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.
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
- stability improvements for Anchor Watch
- stability improvements for Anchor Watch
Version update WatchMate was updated to version 2.4.16404
Version update WatchMate was updated to version 2.0.1460771353
More downloads WatchMate reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads
More downloads WatchMate reached 100 - 500 downloads
What are users saying about WatchMate
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Works great! And it'd improving release after release. Keep up the good work !!
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Only connects once for me, then will never connect again. Wifi on phone sees the vesper box, but will just not connect to it after initial pairing. Left it a few months and reinstalled, and has done the same, only working the first time.
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Brilliant. ..constantly improving
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Crashed on wifi connection on Z4 xperia, Moto 3G and HTC M8. I.e. It doesn't work on android.
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Would get 5 Stars from me if it could use my Android tablet audio function to sound alarm for CPA. I've the XB-8000. After upgrade XB-8000 to version 3.0 and WatchMate to version 2.0.1.46xxx. All is working great !
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Worked out of the box.
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Very handy and simple app to check for other boats around
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Works well, very useful to check status of XB8000
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Works perfectly with the XB8000 and is clearer and easier to use than any of the other wifi AIS apps I have installed over the last couple of years. Once you have tried the VM app you will not use any other.
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All worked first time. It would just be helpful to have a CPA and anchor alarm function for the XB-800. This would be perfect for added backup when at anchor. In any event many thanks for the APP
by R####:
This is an excellent app that has continually been improved (as has the firmware in our WatchMate Vision). We really like the anchor watch ancillary feature - that's been a great bonus. We find the app easier to use to track AIS targets than the NMEA fed data on the Raymarine C80 chart plotter. Thank you.