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Support – Questions and Answers to Logbook Suite

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Do you have any ques­ti­ons about Logbook Suite or pro­blems? On this page we have coll­ec­ted some troubleshootings.

If your ques­ti­ons are not ans­we­red here, the sup­port of 2K Yacht­ing will help. You can reach our tech­ni­cal sup­port best if you send an email to: . We respond as quickly as pos­si­ble, usually within a few hours.

If Logbook Suite should start with a German user inter­face, simply tap the button Vor­ga­ben in the Logbook Suite Mana­ger and select your desi­red lan­guage from the list.

Please note our current important instructions

Via the Update func­tion of the Logbook Suite Mana­ger we pro­vide updates for the dif­fe­rent modu­les and also for the Logbook Suite Mana­ger if requi­red. These updates should always be exe­cu­ted promptly, as they often fix minor bugs.

In order to dis­play the cor­rect ver­sion number of the instal­led modu­les in the dialog Updates, you should press the Refresh button (top left in the dialog) again.

In some cases, the exe­cu­tion of the auto­ma­tic updates does not work as smoothly as expec­ted. Please cont­act us in this case. Please also send us a screen­shot of the dialog Update so that we know what you have instal­led. We will send you ins­truc­tions for an alter­na­tive update pro­ce­dure as soon as possible.

Updating Logbook Suite 2.4 to a newer ver­sion is only pos­si­ble with the cur­rent instal­ler (from your store account) or with an update from the App Store.
Important: Just do the instal­la­taion, do not delete any exis­ting data.

In case of pro­blems, always cont­act our sup­port first before dele­ting or reinstal­ling anything.

 Occasionally, Logbook on the iPad has difficulty connecting to the LogbookNMEA connect app when Auto-NMEA is started. You will get an error message that the app is not set up correctly.

In this case there is a simple solution:

  1. Acti­vate the split screen mode of the iPad and show the app LogbookNMEA con­nect in addi­tion to Logbook.
  2. Now start Auto-NMEA and wait until the start entry is entered.
  3. After that you can show Logbook in full screen mode again.

During the instal­la­tion of Logbook Suite for Win­dows all virus scan­ners must be com­ple­tely deac­ti­va­ted – even the inter­nal virus scan­ner of Win­dows 10/11. Virus scan­ners change the data­base files of Logbook Suite during the scan so that they become unusable.

Important note for the simul­ta­neous use of a USB con­nec­ted NMEA device with Logbook and a navi­ga­tion software:

With USB con­nec­tions, in most cases it is not pos­si­ble to acti­vate devices that are alre­ady used by a navi­ga­tion pro­gram also for Logbook, because the navi­ga­tion pro­grams occupy the port of the device per­ma­nently and do not release it for other programs.

To use Logbook Suite on Mac it is important to avoid that the Logbook Suite data folder moved to iCloud Drive. Saving the files auto­ma­ti­cally in iCloud Drive can cause pro­blems with Logbook Suite – inclu­ding file cor­rup­tion. This is because the auto­ma­ti­cally wri­ting of opened files to the cloud col­l­i­des with the way data­base-based appli­ca­ti­ons auto­ma­ti­cally save the ent­ries.
MacOS Cata­lina by stan­dard copies the users Docu­ments folder to iCloud Drive. The­r­e­fore the data folder “Logbook Suite” is loca­ted directly in the top level of the user folder and not inside of the docu­ments folder.

Unfort­u­na­tely, the plot­ters from Ray­ma­rine, Furuno and Garmin don’t stream the stan­dard NMEA data via the inte­gra­ted WiFi. The WiFi only sends spe­ci­ally pre­pared infor­ma­tion for the own-brand apps in a vendor-pro­prie­tary, non-public data format. Unfort­u­na­tely the manu­fac­tu­re­res are not inte­res­ted in releasing the inter­face for use by third-party software.

This is why you need to have instal­led a NMEA mul­ti­ple­xer with WiFi func­tion in your ship net­work to access the NMEA data from any other device or application—even if you use a plot­ter with wire­less LAN function.

Our practical tips for Logbook

Pro­ceed as fol­lows if you have a time zone change during an over­night trip:

Sai­ling east with change of time zone or change to summer time — increase the time zone by 1:
This case is quite simple.

  1. Open the entry at 23:00 in the data entry dialog and press the “Start” button.
  2. Select “Yes” in the dialog.
  3. Logbook ends the cur­rent day and starts a new one. The time zone for the new day is also chan­ged immediately.

 

Sai­ling west with change of time zone or change to winter time — decrease the time zone by 1:

  1. Stop the auto ent­ries shortly before 24:00 (right or bottom button “Stop Auto”).
  2. If fur­ther ent­ries are requi­red in the fol­lo­wing hour, you can create these manu­ally from the auto­ma­ti­cally recor­ded data using the “Data” button.
  3. Create an entry manu­ally at 25:00, open it in the Data entry dialog and press the “Start” button.
  4. Select “Yes” in the dialog.
  5. Logbook ends the cur­rent day and starts a new one. The time zone for the new day is also chan­ged immediately.
  6. After the new day and the entry in line 0 have been crea­ted, the auto­ma­tic ent­ries can be star­ted again (right button “Start Auto”).

When using func­tions that access GPS or NMEA data, we stron­gly recom­mend that you first use the NMEA test func­tion to check whe­ther the con­nec­tion is still working after every inter­rup­tion in data recep­tion (for exam­ple, even after an anchor break). This avoids incor­rect or incom­plete entries.

Inter­rup­ti­ons in data retrie­val can lead to old data being recei­ved on the first retrie­val or the con­nec­tion first having to be reac­ti­va­ted. With GPS mice in par­ti­cu­lar, it often hap­pens that they first deli­ver data that was still buf­fe­red in the device after the interruption.

The NMEA test func­tion can be found in the gear button menu when the view Logbook is active.

If no data or incor­rect data is still recei­ved after a few attempts, the GPS device pro­ba­bly needs to be restar­ted. In the case of a GPS mouse, unplug the device and plug it in again. Then wait at least 2 minu­tes before test­ing again.
In any case, do not start Auto-NMEA until the test has been successful.

In Logbook, the Auto NMEA func­tion records the cur­rent posi­tion every 2 minu­tes and also cal­cu­la­tes the distance tra­ve­led since the last saved posi­tion.
If the option Distance (Log) from log instru­ment is deac­ti­va­ted in the dialog Defaults, GPS/NMEA or if no log value is con­tai­ned in the NMEA data, Logbook deter­mi­nes the value for the Log field from these par­tial distances.
This value is usually much more accu­rate than the value from the ship’s log.

Incor­rect set­tings in dialog Default, GPS/NMEA can cause that no data trans­fer is pos­si­ble or that it takes a long time until the data are ente­red in Logbook.

The­r­e­fore in the dialog Default, GPS/NMEA only the opti­ons for the data that really can be recei­ved should be enab­led. Other­wise Logbook will wait for unavailable data until the timeout.

This applies par­ti­cul­lary to the option iPad Pres­sure, which should be acti­va­ted only if the iPad has an inte­gra­ted baro­me­ter. In the app LogbookNMEA con­nect, which is used for the data retrie­val, you also need to setup and acti­va­ted the source iPad baro­me­ter in addi­tion to the source for recei­ving the navi­ga­tion data.
We recom­mend to use the option Use time from iPad only if the NMEA data source of the ship net­work does not pro­vide a relia­ble UTC value.

With USB con­nec­tions, in most cases it is not pos­si­ble to acti­vate devices that are alre­ady used by a navi­ga­tion pro­gram also for Logbook, because the navi­ga­tion pro­grams occupy the port of the device per­ma­nently and do not release it for other programs.

When Logbook is opened, the system checks whe­ther the motor ope­ra­tion is set to “finis­hed” for each com­ple­ted day. If not, an error mes­sage is dis­played.
For a cor­rect eva­lua­tion, you should check and cor­rect the ent­ries for the listed days.

Pro­ceed as fol­lows to com­plete the miss­ing entry:

  1. Change to the first date men­tio­ned in the error message.
  2. Acti­vate the Navi­ga­tion card.
  3. Open the Data entry dialog and switch to the last entry of the day.
  4. Check whe­ther the motor button for the motor in ques­tion is dis­played in blue or gray.

If the engine button is dis­played in blue:

  1. Click on the blue motor button to end motor operation.
  2. Pro­ceed in this way for all days listed in the error message.

If the motor button is dis­played in gray:

  1. Make a note of the time.
  2. Close the dialog again.
  3. Now acti­vate the tab Motor, Motor(s).
  4. Go to the field for the affec­ted motor under Motor — Ope­ra­ting times.
  5. Delete the ente­red time and enter the noted time.
  6. The motor should now no longer be listed on the right under Motor(s) swit­ched on.
  7. Pro­ceed in the same way for all days listed in the error message.

If the Auto NMEA func­tion has not recei­ved any usable data during a data retrie­val, a red mes­sage inclu­ding an error number is dis­played.
The cause of the error is usually the GPS signal or the GPS source itself.
This means the type number of the error:

T1 = no data
T2 = Posi­tion error — devia­tion too large (the posi­tion is too far away from the pre­vious one)
T3 = no com­plete posi­tion (e.g. only LAT and no LON)

Seve­ral media out­lets have recently repor­ted mas­sive GPS dis­rup­ti­ons, par­ti­cu­larly in the Baltic Sea and the eas­tern Medi­ter­ra­nean. This is pre­su­ma­bly caused by tar­ge­ted inter­fe­rence (GPS jamming) in con­nec­tion with the war in Ukraine.
If you are tra­ve­ling in this area and fre­quently receive the red error mes­sage while using the Auto NMEA, this GPS jamming may be the reason. This is because Logbook com­pa­res the posi­ti­ons with each data recor­ding and reports an Auto NMEA error if they are too far apart. Incor­rect posi­ti­ons are no longer used. <br>
If the GPS error is only tem­po­rary (as we have mostly seen with the errors repor­ted by our cus­to­mers in the past year), this also has no influence on your logbook ent­ries.
See also (unfort­u­na­tely only in German):

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/Ostsee-Raetselhafte-GPS-Stoerungen-behindern-Schiffs-und-Flugverkehr,balticjammer100.html

https://skipper.adac.de/gps-stoerungen-im-ostseeraum-und-mittelmeer/

What often helps with pro­blems with the iPad is a deep restart of the device. Unfort­u­na­tely, unlike the PC, the iPad is not com­ple­tely restar­ted even when a system update is per­for­med, which means that data and set­tings accu­mu­late and can lead to problems.

  1. First close all files in Logbook Suite.
  2. Then close all apps by swit­ching them out of the App Switcher.
  3. Restart the iPad. To do this, you have to hold down the keys men­tio­ned below until the apple appears. This can take up to 10 seconds. The pro­ce­dure is dif­fe­rent for the various models:
  • iPad (newer modells): Press the Volume Up button once briefly, then press the Volume Down button once briefly, and then press and hold the Standby button.
  • iPad with home button: Press and hold the home button and the standby button at the same time.
  • iPad Pro (old): Hold down the side button (standby button) and the quiet button at the same time.

If you don’t know how to cate­go­rize your iPad here: just try it out, not­hing can happen. You can tell that it is working because the apple will appear at some point. Do not select the slider that may appear in between.

Logbook Suite: Installation and Update

Please note that on Win­dows com­pu­ters you only can make ent­ries in data­base soft­ware from accounts with administrator’s right. The­r­e­fore it is neces­sary that you install Logbook Suite with an account with all admi­nis­tra­tor privileges.

Nevert­hel­ess, with some Win­dows instal­la­ti­ons the admi­nis­tra­tor account hasn’t got all rights that are requi­red for the use of a data­base soft­ware. This is par­ti­cu­larly the case for com­pu­ters with addi­tio­nal accounts. You may reco­gnize that every time Logbook Suite is star­ted, a mes­sage is shown, that an update of the data files has been exe­cu­ted, even when not­hing has been updated.

In this case there is a rather simple solution:

  • Start Logbook Suite using the con­text menu of the pro­gram and select “Run as administrator”.
  • Alter­na­tively you can set up the link to the pro­gram Logbook Suite thus the soft­ware auto­ma­ti­cally gets always the admi­nis­tra­tor pri­vi­le­ges. In the con­text menu choose the entry “Pro­per­ties”, click the “Short­cut” tab, then on “Advan­ced” and acti­vate the “Run as Admi­nis­tra­tor” check box. To finish click OK.
  • In some cases, in addi­tion to the step above the access rights of the data­ba­ses con­tai­ned in the pro­gram folder of Logbook Suite (the files with exten­sion fmp12) need to be manu­ally chan­ged to full access.
  • If the access rights of the data­base files in the pro­gram folder were not cor­rect, you should also check the access rights of the files in the data folder of Logbook Suite (the folder “Logbook Suite” is in the top level of your boot drive). Cor­rect the access rights of this files if neces­sary, too. Remove all backup files which have been crea­ted during your attemps to start Logbook Suite.

Occa­sio­nally it can happen that an inter­nal update of a module does not go through. There is a simple solu­tion for this:

  1. Load a new, empty file of the module.
  2. Then open it using the normal button …
  3. … and select the “Import all (update)” button in the Com­mu­ni­ca­tion menu.
  4. In the fol­lo­wing dialog, select the backup crea­ted during the down­load as the data source. You can reco­gnize the cor­rect file by the desi­gna­tion “down­load” and the date in the file name.

In order for Logbook will be able to receive GPS data on the iPad, you need to have acti­va­ted the Loca­tion Ser­vices for Logbook Suite and for LogbookNMEA con­nect in the Set­tings app of the iOS.

To trans­fer navi­ga­tion data from the iPad’s built-in GPS or from an NMEA data source, you need our free iPad app LogbookNMEA con­nect. This app estab­lishes the con­nec­tion bet­ween Logbook and the GPS or the instruments.

Please note, before you can receive data, you need to setup the appro­priate data source in LogbookNMEA con­nect. For more infor­ma­tion, read the Logbook manual.

  • Mac: macOS 10.13 and newer
  • Win­dows: Window 8.1 Standard/Pro, 10 Pro/Enterprise, Win­dows 11
  • iPad/iPhone: iOS 15 and newer, mini­mum 1.5 GB free memory

Logbook: Tips on the NMEA connection

While Logbook is in demo mode and there are less then five days in the logbook, you can test the NMEA fea­ture for PC and iPad. We stron­gly recom­mend to test the NMEA con­nec­tion bet­ween Logbook and your equip­ment before purcha­sing the PC NMEA License.

The con­nec­tion should work with all NMEA and GPS devices that are con­nec­ted to the PC using USB, Bluetooth or WiFi. Nevert­hel­ess there could be some devices on the market that are not com­pa­ti­ble with Logbook.

We are very gra­teful for any feed­back – regard­less of whe­ther the con­nec­tion is working or not!

While Logbook is in demo mode and there are less then five days in the logbook, you can also test the Logbook NMEA func­tion for iPad. Once you have crea­ted more than five days, the fea­ture is only available if you have ente­red a NMEA serial number for iPad.

The fol­lo­wing list shows the hard­ware, for which the app pro­vi­des preset con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons.
If you want to use a hard­ware that is not listed, please cont­act our support.

Our NMEA func­tion for iPad uses the app LogbookNMEA con­nect, which has been deve­lo­ped exclu­si­vely for Logbook, to con­nect Logbook to NMEA data sources. LogbookNMEA con­nect offers pre con­fi­gu­red set­tings for the fol­lo­wing devices or connections.

Inter­nal

  • iPad Baro­me­ter
  • iPad GPS

WiFi

  • Acti­sense NGT‑1 (IP)
  • Acti­sende W2K‑1
  • Astra­Yacht
  • Bon­jour
  • comar i300W/i320W
  • comar NMEA-2-Wifi
  • Digi­tal Yacht (Nav­Link 2, TCP, UDP)
  • DMK Box (NMEA 0183 & NMEA 2000)
  • DY: iAIS / WLN10
  • EKI-1351
  • Expe­di­tion
  • ezTCP CSW-H80
  • GMM (NMEA 0183, NMEA 2000)
  • GoFree™, GoFree™ Bonjour
  • iMux (AdHoc) & iMux / eMux (DHCP)
  • nke NMEA Wifi Interface
  • NMEA over IP
  • NME­A­connect Server
  • NMEA­re­mote Server
  • Pilot­Tech — AIS Pilot Plug WiFi
  • Quark-elec
  • RedBox
  • Sailmon
  • Sea­M­ate Ch.1, Sea­M­ate Ch.2
  • SeaSmart.NET (NMEA 0183, NMEA 2000)
  • Ship­Mo­dul MiniPlex-2Wi
  • Ship­Mo­dul MiniPlex-3Wi(-N2K)
  • SignalK
  • SignalK (NMA 0183)
  • vYacht
  • XB 8000 / Watch Mate Vision
  • Yacht Devices
  • Yacht Devices — YDWG-02 (N2k)
  • Yakker

You can also con­nect other devices via LogbookNMEA con­nect with Logbook, if you know the con­fi­gu­ra­tion set­tings which are used to con­nect your iPad to your GPS/NMEA device.

We have tested some WiFi mul­ti­ple­xers in prac­tice and can give you a very spe­cial recom­men­da­tion here:

Small, easy to install and fully com­pa­ti­ble with Logbook:
the NMEA 2000 WiFi Gate­way YDWG-02 von Yacht Devices.
The device is less than 6 cm long and has a dia­me­ter of only 20 mm. Tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion can be found here:
http://www.yachtd.com/products/wifi_gateway.html.

From now on you can also buy this gate­way directly from us in our online shop:
https://shop.2k-yachting.de/hardware/yacht-devices/yacht-devices-nmea2000-wifi-gateway-ydwg-02.
The sel­ling price is 249,00 €. We deli­ver free of ship­ping costs.

 

We also have had great expe­ri­en­ces with the GoFree Wifi‑1 Modul from Navico (Simrad, B&G, Lowrance) during our tests. This is available in nearly every well sorted ship supply store.

Please also note the tip on set­ting up the GoFree connection.

Bitte beachte auch den Hin­weis für die Ein­rich­tung der GoFree-Verbindung.

The LogbookNMEA con­nect iPad app offers the pre­de­fi­ned Yacht Devices source for the YDWG. Howe­ver, this source only works if the YDWG is used in access mode, i.e. with its own WLAN.

If the YDWG is con­fi­gu­red so that it is part of an onboard WLAN (client mode, see the YDWG manual), a sepa­rate source must be set up. Pro­ceed as follows:

  1. Open the app LogbookNMEA con­nect and choose Source, Edit, Add source.
  2. Choose NMEA over IP.
  3. Make the fol­lo­wing settings.
    • Pro­to­col: TCP
    • Host: the IP that was assi­gned to the YDWG when client mode was activated
    • Port: 1456
      1456
  4. In the top you can give this source a name, for exam­ple YDWG client.
    YDWG Client
  5. If you now save and acti­vate the source, data should be dis­played in the blue field.

With the latest iOS updates, the Bon­jour pro­to­col, which is used for the auto­ma­tic detec­tion of GoFree, has been updated seve­ral times. Howe­ver, since GoFree still uses an old ver­sion of the pro­to­col, the inter­face is no longer reco­gni­zed correctly.

This can be reme­died by manu­ally set­ting up the source. Pro­ceed as follows:

  1. On your plot­ter go to the plot­ter con­fi­gu­ra­tion page. Look for the IP of the plot­ter, which is also dis­played here. Write this down.
  2. Open the app LogbookNMEA con­nect and choose Source, Edit, Add source.
  3. Choose NMEA over IP.
  4. Make the fol­lo­wing settings.
    • Pro­to­col: TCP
    • Host: IP of your plot­ter (it is shown on the info screen of your plotter)
    • Port: 10110
  5. In the top you can give this source a name, for exam­ple GoFree manu­ally.
  6. If you now acti­vate the source, data should be dis­played in the blue field.

The Logbook Suite com­mu­ni­ca­tion app LogbookNMEA con­nect from ver­sion 2.3 on can detect and ignore errors in the NMEA data so that the data is passed to Logbook wit­hout errors. This is espe­ci­ally hel­pful when using the Auto NMEA func­tion, because NMEA data errors could lead to aborts of the data trans­fer to Logbook.

If there are still aborts during the data recor­ding with LogbookNMEA con­nect 2.3, you can use the option Vali­date (in the set­tings of your source) to acti­vate a second step of error correction.

Update from an older version to Logbook Suite 2.5

If you alre­ady own a PC license for Logbook for Mac or Win­dows, you can simply down­load the new ver­sion of Logbook Suite for your ope­ra­ting system from your 2K Yacht­ing Shop account wit­hout fil­ling out the down­load form again.

To down­load the instal­ler from your shop account select at “Instant down­loads” the down­load button that is dis­played next to your Logbook PC license. All other down­load but­tons do not have an instal­ler because they are valid for all plat­forms.
Just ignore the ver­sion number that is dis­played in your account! For all ver­si­ons of Logbook the down­load button is linked to the latest instal­ler of Logbook Suite. All updates are for free.

The update for iPad can be loaded from the Apple App Store as usal.

When instal­ling Logbook Suite 2.5 your data files from older ver­si­ons of Logbook Suite are auto­ma­ti­cally updated. Howe­ver, the auto­ma­tic update affects only files with default file names in the default data folder, other files need to be updated manu­ally to ver­sion 2.5.

If you have alre­ady used an older ver­sion of Logbook (Logbook ver­sion 2.0 or newer) or Logbook Suite, you can open your files from Logbook and the Add-ons crea­ted in the older ver­sion of the soft­ware also with Logbook Suite 2.5. But the file will only pro­vide the func­tions of the ori­gi­nal ver­sion of the program.

After instal­ling Logbok Suite 2.5 you can import your old data files into Logbook Suite so all the new fea­tures will be available. 

The fol­lo­wing ins­truc­tions explain all the neces­sary steps on the PC or the iPad.5

If you want to update older data files (Logbook mini­mum ver­sion 2.0, Add-ons all ver­si­ons) to the cur­rent ver­sion of Logbook Suite, you can do this very easily using the auto­ma­tic updating function.

  • Copy your data files from older ver­si­ons into a folder. All files need to use the stan­dard file names and the exten­sion .fmp12. If neces­sary, you should edit the file names using the Finder or the Explo­rer before start­ing the func­tion. Please note that all files need to be closed when per­forming the update.
  • In Logbook Suite Mana­ger choose the button More… and then the button Import data from 3.7 or older.
  • When you have sel­ece­ted your folder the update pro­cess is star­ted. After a few secu­rity mes­sa­ges, the data from the old ver­si­ons are impor­ted into the files of the the cur­rent ver­sion of the cur­rent ver­sion of Logbook Suite.

A step-by-step ins­truc­tion for a manual updating is pro­vi­ded in User Manual Logbook Suite Basics.

Using the button Import data from 3.7 and older from the menu of the button More… of the Logbook Suite Mana­ger you can per­form an auto­ma­ted update of your data from older ver­si­ons (Logbook mini­mum ver­sion 2.0, Add-ons all ver­si­ons) to the cur­rent verion of Logbook Suite. Please note that all files should not use the stan­dard file name and should be closed while per­forming the update.

  1. Copy the old data file to Logbook Suite.
  2. In the Logbook Suite Mana­ger tap the button More… and then the button Import data from 3.7 and older.
  3. In the popo­ver choose from the first list which module you want to update.
  4. Then select from the second list the file con­tai­ning the data to be impor­ted from. The list con­ta­ins all files stored in Logbook Suite except the default files.
  5. Tap­ping the button Update starts the import pro­cess of the data.

Because of the file system on the iPad, the update must be exe­cu­ted one by one for each file. 
A step-by-step ins­truc­tion for a manual updating is pro­vi­ded in User Manual Logbook Suite Basics.

Internal updates of the modules via the Logbook Suite Manager

Logbook Suite is con­stantly being deve­lo­ped and impro­ved. We pro­vide updates for down­load via the Update func­tion in the Logbook Suite Mana­ger as soon as they are available.
The update updates the cur­rent module file to the latest ver­sion. During the update pro­cess, Logbook Suite always saves a backup of the last ver­sion before the update.

We stron­gly advise you to carry out the offe­red updates as soon as possible.

Current version numbers of Logbook and the Add-ons starting with version 2.5

If you are using an older ver­sion and have pro­blems with the file, you can down­load the new ver­sion from our web­site into Logbook Suite by cli­cking the Update button in the Logbook Suite Mana­ger and update your cur­rent file auto­ma­ti­cally. The Update dialog will always show you the ver­si­ons you are using and the latest available versions.

Ver­sionChange
6.8.3Fixed pro­blem where an inter­nal window was dis­played at startup
6.8.2• Fixed pro­blem with sen­ding the sup­port mail wit­hout a sup­ported mail program
• Opti­miza­tion for Win­dows: inter­nal win­dows are no longer visi­ble (espe­ci­ally affects data recording) 
• Fixed bug that some of the newer set­tings were not applied during the update 
• A last entry is now pos­si­ble when exi­ting Logbook while data coll­ec­tion is running
6.8.1• Fixed errors in the cal­cu­la­tion of Speed and auto­ma­tic cor­rec­tion of exis­ting data with errors
• Various small cor­rec­tions and addi­tio­nal func­tions for the cor­rect eva­lua­tion of incor­rect NMEA data
6.8.0• Opti­miza­tion of various Auto-NMEA func­tions and auto­ma­tic entries 
• Opti­miza­tion of the over­night jour­ney with change of time zone
6.7.6• Cor­rec­tion of an error that could occur in cer­tain cases when sai­ling overnight
• User gui­dance for chan­ging the time zone
• Auto­ma­tic repair of incor­rect rem­ovals from 6.7.4
6.7.5back to 6.7.3, due to an error in the cal­cu­la­tion of the distance, the next update will also auto­ma­ti­cally cor­rect all incor­rect distances — no manual cor­rec­tion of the values required
6.7.4• Error fixed if the user has swit­ched to ano­ther day while an auto NMEA entry is being created
• Motors tab: Sum of times under list added
6.7.3• Error fixed when sai­ling over­night with Auto-NMEA set­ting off engine for 2 engines 
• Default set­ting for first log value (0 or last log) when start­ing Auto NMEA if log value is cal­cu­la­ted automatically 
• Various minor corrections
6.7.1, 6.7.2PC Auto-NMEA: occa­sio­nal error with motor speed fixed if 2 motor active but only motor 1 in operation
6.7.0• Search func­tion for any time peri­ods incl. evaluation
• Opti­miza­tion import of serial num­bers during update
• Auto-NMEA: Error fixed that end break was not reco­gni­zed correctly
6.6.7• Fixed bug that motor on ent­ries were crea­ted every 2 minu­tes during over­night trips
• Motor buttons: 
— impro­ved behavior
— Black labe­l­ing indi­ca­tes activation
— Ent­ries car­ried over from the pre­vious entry under “Sail|Engine” are remo­ved so that chan­ged set­tings can be entered
• With the auto­ma­tic entry for start/stop, the breaks are also recor­ded on the Breaks card
• Sail and engine distance are now also cal­cu­la­ted cor­rectly when the engine is running
• Auto NMEA end entry: Engine off is recor­ded correctly 
6.6.6• Opti­miza­tion sail/engine trans­fer from pre­vious entry
• Sup­port mail is sent directly from Logbook if no com­pa­ti­ble mail pro­gram is set up
• Various small improvements
6.6.5• Auto-NMEA: Option “Use values Sail|Motor from pre­vious entry” only affects sail posi­ti­ons, not engine speed
•Various small improvements
6.6.4Fixed issue with manual retrie­val of GPS/NMEA data
6.6.3Fur­ther impro­ve­ments in the eva­lua­tion of incor­rect or incom­plete NMEA data
6.6.2• Fixed pro­blem that but­tons are some­ti­mes grayed out
• NMEA PC: Opti­mi­zed data eva­lua­tion for GPS mice, as these often pro­vide incor­rect data at the begin­ning of the data retrieval
• NMEA PC: incom­plete wind data no longer leads to incor­rect wind direc­tions, but is igno­red completely
6.6.1PC: NMEA set­tings are dis­played cor­rectly again
6.6.0• NMEA PC: Data retrie­val wit­hout LogbookNMEAconnect.fmp12
• Impro­ved error hand­ling Auto-NMEA
• Pre­fe­ren­ces dialog with sepa­rate maps for NMEA set­tings and Auto-NMEA
• Mes­sa­ges for NMEA test
6.5.3, 6.5.4Auto-NMEA PC: Cal­cu­la­tion of wind data fur­ther optimised
6.5.2• Auto-NMEA: Entry for motor on/off — text also con­ta­ins number of swit­ched motor
• Auto-NMEA PC: Fur­ther spe­cial case for baro­me­ter data taken into account
• Auto-NMEA PC: Impro­ved rea­dout of tem­pe­ra­ture and humidity
• iPad: Error fixed for water temperature
• Various minor corrections/optimizations
6.5.1• PC: Cal­cu­la­tion of wind data optimized
• Various small improvements
6.5.0• Entry for motor on/off via motor speed
• Work­around for rea­ding out faulty wea­ther data
6.4.1• Auto-NMEA PC: Sup­port for additional 
• Over­night drive Auto-NMEA: Engine off is now set correctly
• Various small inter­nal improvements
6.4.0• Func­tion for test­ing the recor­ding of NMEA data wit­hout crea­ting an entry
• License limi­ted to 30 days possible
6.3.1NMEA PC: Impro­ve­ment in rea­ding out baro­me­ter data
6.3.0• New lan­guage: Spanish
• Trans­fer of serial num­bers to new file optimized
• iOS on Mac is reco­gni­zed, license for Mac applied
- Office Mode- Office Mode
- Sub­se­quent eva­lua­tion of down­loa­ded data if this was not car­ried out automatically- Sub­se­quent eva­lua­tion of down­loa­ded data if this was not car­ried out automatically
2.5.7• Exten­ded SYNC dialog
• Dis­play during SYNC if down­loa­ded data has not yet been evaluated
• Func­tion to later eva­luate data that has been down­loa­ded from the SYNC server but not fully evaluated
• Office mode for SYNC: Set­tings for cases where devices are loca­ted in the office and on the ship, but ent­ries are only to be made on the ship
2.5.6Impro­ve­ments in the manage­ment of ver­sion numbers
Saves con­sidera­ble working memory
2.5.5Impro­ve­ments in the manage­ment of licen­ses and ver­sion numbers
2.5.4In case of dis­play pro­blems on older iPads, the module name is dis­played ins­tead of the module icons
2.5.3Update for Log­bookNME­A­connect removed
2.5.1., 2.5.2Bugfix ver­sion numbers
2.5.0• New lan­guage: Spanish
• NeW Add-on Provisions
Biography
2.5.0New lan­guage: Spanish
BoardCash
4.0.1Fixed an error when crea­ting the per­so­nal expenses
4.0.0Chan­ged cal­cu­la­tion methods for pri­vate purcha­ses and for expen­ses that do not involve the entire crew, impro­ved — wit­hout vir­tual depo­sits. “Per­so­nal” shows the actual expen­ses incur­red for each person.
3.7.1• New func­tion for import­ing cate­go­ries from ano­ther BoardCash file (Com­mu­ni­ca­tion menu)
• Fixed small bugs in the iPhone layout
• Title of the delete dialog corrected
• Incor­rect texts in Dutch and Swe­dish corrected
3.7.0New lan­guage: Spanish
Budget
1.5.0New lan­guage: Spanish
1.4.4Module now starts faster
Crew
2.2.7/2.2.8Impro­ved cor­rec­tion of errors with ins­truc­tion items
First-Aid Kit
2.5.0New lan­guage: Spanish
Inventory
2.6.3• New field Note with search function
• Incor­rect texts in Dutch and Swe­dish corrected
2.6.2Fixed an error when syn­chro­ni­zing text with quo­ta­tion marks
2.6.1• Bugfix for price and unit
• Opti­miza­tion for PDF with Win­dows 11
2.6.0• New lan­guage: Spanish
• New func­tion: Import of all lists
Maintenance
2.4.1• Dupli­cate job: all dates are now deleted
• Incor­rect texts in Dutch and Swe­dish corrected
2.4.0New lan­guage: Spanish
Pro­vi­si­ons
1.1.0• New lan­guage: Spanish
• Daily plan­ning: delete seve­ral items and entire recipes 
• Rest­rict the sel­ec­tion of artic­les to favorites 
• Favo­ri­tes can be edited for artic­les and defi­ned during selection
Scheduler
3.5.1Fixed a pro­blem when dis­play­ing the time­line under Win­dows 11 and iPadOS 17.5
SYNC
2.5.4Manger 2.5.7 required!
• Office Mode
• Sub­se­quent eva­lua­tion of down­loa­ded data if this was not car­ried out automatically
2.5.3Syn­chro­ni­sa­tion now also works across time zones
2.5.2Various small improvements
2.5.1Fixed an error when syn­chro­ni­zing text with quo­ta­tion marks
2.5.0New lan­guage: Spanish
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