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SonarChart™ Live
SonarChart™ Live allows you to create new personal 1 ft/0.5 m HD bathymetry maps that display in real time while navigating. The feature can be displayed directly on the screen of compatible plotters, or on a mobile device within the Navionics Boating app when connected wirelessly to a sonar.
Display SonarChart Live on a plotter using:
- a, c, e, eS and gS Series MFD by Raymarine produced after 2011, updated with Lighthouse II release 17 software or later.
- HDS Carbon, HDS Gen3 and Elite Ti 5 and 7 models by Lowrance with software updated to the latest version released February, 2017 or later.
- GO, NSS evo3 and NSS evo3 modelsl by Simrad with software updated to the latest version released February, 2017 or later.
- Zeus3, Zeus2 and Vulcan models by B&G with software updated to the latest version released Feburary, 2017 or later.
Software updates soon to be release will enable SonarChart Live also on Lowrance Elite Ti 9 and 12.
- Additional requirements are a Navionics+, Navionics Updates, Platinum+ or HotMaps Platinum card that has an active chart updates subscription and has been updated after April 2016 at navionics.com or by a dealer. Another way to update is by using the Plotter Sync feature with Navionics mobile apps, available for Raymarine starting with iOS version 8.5.1 and Android version 6.2. Owners of Navionics Silver, Gold and HotMaps Premium can take advantage of this feature by upgrading with Navionics Updates.
Display SonarChart Live on iPhone, iPad and Android using:
Wi-Fi sonars/plotters:
- Dragonfly 4, 5 and 7 PRO, Wi-Fish by Raymarine
- HDS Carbon, HDS Gen3 (instructions) and Elite Ti (instructions) by Lowrance
- GO and NSS evo3 by Simrad
- Vulcan and Zeus3 models by B&G
- SonarPhone T-BOX SP200 and SP300 by Vexilar
Or, if you already have a sonar, use a NMEA 0183 Wi-Fi router:
- GoFree WIFI-1 Module by Navico (sonar compatibility)
- Sonar Server by Digital Yacht (sonar compatibility)
