A remote control and display for your Vesper Marine WatchMate Vision or XB-8000.
Not recently updated — last update was on 2022-06-16.
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About WatchMate
WatchMate is a tools app developed by Vesper Marine.
Download Statistics
WatchMate has been downloaded 17 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 49 times.
User Ratings
WatchMate is rated 3.11 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 44 ratings.
App Information
WatchMate is FREE to download. The APK download size is 5.84 MB. The latest version available is 2.7.5. The last update was on June 16, 2022.
Technical Requirements
WatchMate requires Android 4.4+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play November 2014.
Description
The WatchMate app connects to your 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 we do 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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This is an excellent app that has continually been improved (as has the firmware in our Watch Mate 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 Ray marine C80 chart plotter. Thank you.
★★★★☆Ken Yap· Mar 10, 2016
Must have onboard Would get 5 Stars from me if it could use my Android tablet audio function to sound alarm for CPA.
★★★★★Richard Sutton· Aug 18, 2015
Works perfectly with the XB8000 and is clearer and easier to use than any of the other Wi-Fi AIS apps I have installed over the last couple of years. Once you have tried the VM app you will not use any other.
★☆☆☆☆Rudy Kruger· Nov 30, 2019
Come on Vesper, your Android app is terrible compared to your IOS app. A simple example is firmware updates. The Android app gives no feedback about install status and even if the current firmware is up-to-date. Just a big red "Update" button that looks like it does nothing when you press it. It's almost like a professional developer worked on IOS and the Android app was a "Learn to Program 101" project.
★☆☆☆☆Bradley Flowers· Jun 19, 2023
Not possible to remotely monitor AIs or nema 2000 data. Don't waste money on the xb 800 it can only LOCALLY monitor your AIs and nema data. If you have any need to remotely monitor your vessel info this will not work. Just buy the vesper cortex don't be an idiot like me.
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