Settings / Alarms & Sounds
Alarms & Sounds
Here you can configure settings related to alarms. Alarms are used
to notify you of important events.
On mobile devices, best practice is to leave the app running in the
foreground, with Keep Awake turned on.
Other alarms are available and can be configured in the respective
setting panels.
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Routes
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Waypoint Advance: Alerts you when advancing to the
next waypoint on the active route.
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Waypoint Arrival(Only SEAiq Pilot): Fires when
arriving within designated distance from the next waypoint.
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Route XTD Alarm: Fires when Own-Ship Cross Track
Distance (XTD) exceeds the designated distance from the actve
route.
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Speed Limit Alarm (Only SEAiq Pilot): Fires when
Own-Ship is following a route segment with a speed limit and
speed exceeds the limit.
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NMEA/AIS
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Inactivity Alarm: Indicates when no recent data
has been received.
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Inactivity Alarm Reminder: Prompts you when data has
been received but the Inactivity Alarm is disabled.
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AIS Alarm: Indicates when an alarm is reported via
AIS.
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HDOP Alarm: Fires when HDOP (Horizontal Dilution of
Precision) has been received that exceeds 2.0.
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NMEA Verification Alarm: Fires when NMEA/AIS and GPS
position differ by at least 100m.
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Excessive Checksum Alarm: Fires when many checksum
errors have occurred. See NMEA documentation for detailed
description.
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Meeting Points
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New Meeting Point (Only SEAiq Pilot): Indicates when a
new meeting point has been detected for an AIS vessel.
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Passing Restricted Meeting Point (Only SEAiq Pilot):
Indicates when a meeting point has been detected in a route
segment marked as Passing Restricted.
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Anchor Alarm: Generate an
alarm when Own-Ship moves too far from anchor position.
Settings
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Disable Sound
: This disable all audible alarms, including voice and audible alarms. Heading ticks or playing back audio recordings are not affected.
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Use Voice for Alarm
: Enable to get a voice alarm. This also requires that the volume on your device not be muted. The default voice for your language will be selected.
On Apple IOS you can change the default voice by going to IOS Settings / Accessibility / Spoken Content / Voices / English (or other language) and choose the voice you wish to use. You may find that downloading the Enhanced version for a voice will improve the quality.
On Apple MacOS you can change the default voice by going to MacOS Settings / Accessibility / Spoken Content / System Voice and choose the voice you wish to use. You may find that downloading the Enhanced version for a voice will improve the quality.
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Speed for Spoken Alarms
: Control how fast spoken text is. This is a number from 1-100%. The default is 50%.
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Recent Alarms
: A table of alarms that have fired recently.
Own-Ship
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Heading Tick
(Only SEAiq Pilot) : Enable to get a tick every time Own-Ship heading (HDG) changes 1°. If Settings / Status Bar / Precise Heading is enabled, the ticks are every 1/2°. If Settings / Status_Bar / Use Course When Heading Unavailable is enabled, then COG may be used for generating ticks. Ticks are not emitted when playing back a recording at fast speed.
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Disable Entry/Exit Alarms
: When enabled, alarms for Own-Ship entering/exiting a Mariners Note polygon are prevented.
Wind Speed
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Wind Speed Alarm
: Enable to create alarm if the speed is exceeded. Alarms fire at most every minute. Both a text and audible alert are generated. If the speed is exceeded during this time, then another warning is generated using the maximum speed since the last alarm was generated.
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Wind Speed is True
: Enable to base alarm on true wind speed. When disabled, the alarm is triggered by apparent wind speed.
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Wind Speed
: Set this to the speed you would like an alarm generated.
Wind Direction
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Wind Direction Alarm
: Enable to create alarm if wind direction is outside the designated range. Alarms fire at most every minute. Both a text and audible are generated. If the direction exceeds range again during this time, then another warning is generated using the largest difference since the last alarm was generated.
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Wind Direction Port
: The bearing to port where an alarm is generated.
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Wind Direction Starboard
: The bearing to starboard where an alarm is generated.
Depth
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Depth Alarm
: Enable to generate an alarm if a lower depth is reported. If the depth is exceeded during this time, then another warning is generated using the shoalest depthd since the last alarm was generated.
This alarm requires a sensor reporting Depth Below Keel.
This alarm does not use depth information reported by charts.
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Depth
: Set this to the depth at which you would like an alarm generated.
Own-Ship COG/SOG
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Speed Alarm
: Enable to create alarm if Own-Ship speed exceeds a designated amount. Alarms fire at most every minute. Both a text and audible alert are generated. If the speed is exceeded during this time, then another warning is generated using the maximum speed since the last alarm was generated.
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Speed
: Set this to the speed you would like an alarm generated.
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Off Course Alarm
: Enable to create alarm if Own-Ship course is outside a designated range. Alarms fire at most every minute. Both a text and audible alert are generated.
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Course Bearing Port
: The bearing to port beyond which an alarm is generated.
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Course Bearing Starboard
: The bearing to starboard beyond which an alarm is generated.
AIS
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New AIS Vessel Alarm
: When enabled, an alarm fires whenever a new vessel. The alarm only applies to targets received from AIS and the target must be within the AIS Vessel Alarm Range.
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New AIS Vessel Alarm Range
: The maximum range for new AIS target alarms. A value of zero means there is no limit.
Diagnostics
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Test Alarm
: Signal an alarm after 10 seconds.