Link: Connect Your Boat app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Navico
First release : 09 Oct 2012
App size: 60.1 Mb
The Link app gives you remote control of wirelessly connected Simrad, Lowrance, or B&G multifunction displays from your smartphone or tablet. Link lets you select any wirelessly connected display on board, duplicates the screen in real-time on your mobile device, and puts control of most display functions at your fingertips.
Work with charts, sonar, and radar, control your on-board entertainment system, view data from connected engines and instruments, and much more. With Link, you’re constantly connected to your boat’s key systems from anywhere on board – making it easier to plan trips, fish, sail, handle maintenance, and otherwise make the best of your time on the water.
Link also gives you the ability to wirelessly back up and restore waypoints, routes, tracks, and display settings directly to your mobile device. This makes it easier than ever to protect your valuable boating data against loss or theft, and to keep your backups up-to-date with zero hassle.
The Link app is compatible with Simrad NSS evo3, NSS evo2, NSO evo2, NSS7/8/12*, and GO series displays; Lowrance HDS Carbon, HDS Gen3, HDS Gen2 Touch*, HDS Gen2**, and Elite Ti fishfinder/chartplotters; and B&G Zeus³, Zeus², Zeus Touch*, and Vulcan sailing chartplotters. Displays without built-in wireless connectivity require an additional WIFI-1 module. To enable the Link app, a free software update may be required for your display.
Link works with the Apple iPhone 5s and later devices running iOS 9 or above.
* Mirroring only. ** View only.
Latest reviews of Link: Connect Your Boat app for iPhone and iPad
I have been using this app a few days now and it seems to be working pretty well! I appears a bit more stable too!
I was thrilled to use this app the first few times I tried it. Unfortunately, the latest version no longer detects any MFD devices (chart plotter etc.) on our ships network, it just displays "Searching Suryas network for MFD displays..." and spins a little icon endlessly. Very, very disappointing. I hope they update the app to work with the latest MFDs and/or iOS updates. Until then... useless.
Turns your iPad into a secondary chart plotter
Why just a repeater function on iPhone. Does little to no good on small boat. If full function works on iPad, why not on iPhone?