WatchMate

Vesper Marine

About this app

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.

Ratings and reviews

There was a bit of a learning curve trying to figure out how to get the wjfi connection to work, but once I figured out that "not connected to Wi-Fi " really means "not connected to internet" and ignored the warning the connection has worked well. The portability is very handy. I have do have a question though ... my AWS reading sometimes shows a small s or small p next to the degrees for wind angle. What do those symbols mean? Okay, got it. P for Port, S for Starboard! Thanks!

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.

Android app alarm is almost inaudible. I have been using this for many years, and just learned how to set the anchor alarm--by reading the detailed instructions only the for iOS app! I would like to use the alarm on the phone near me when I sleep at anchor, but the alrm sound is a single beep and 3 vibrations. NOT LOUD ENOUGH!. I seem to remember the under weigh alarm for nearby vessels being a loud ship's horn sound. How do I get a louder anchor alarm on the Phone?

What's new

Misc bug fixes