![]() ![]() You need to seal everything that is supposed to last. The big parts are usually (more or less) protected by zinc anodes, but electronics are complicated. Cables, connectors, PCB traces, your shaft and propeller, engine, your mast, even your boat hull if it’s made of metal. Which then proceeds to eat up your stuff. Seawater is a great electrolyte and turns anything it touches that contains different metals into a battery. There’s one more serious pita in a marine environment that you don’t have at home: galvanic electrolysis. That’s a good premise to go by in any situation ! I can’t say much about the long run, still different stages of lockdown here, so I hadn’t had the chance to give it a long run on the Autobahn (highway), but tbh I don’t think there will be any problems. I can say, for my use case, it seems really like the perfect device. The first setup, better the correct calibration is a bit try and error, but all in all it took me less than an hour to install and setup. Right now it works with MQTT and the Shelly UI. ![]() I have just one little thing, I’d love to see: integration in ESPHome, but that’s really not a deal breaker. My car is parked in front of the building and the WIFI signal reaches easily (3 out of 5) to my Pi in the garage (around ten meters, but an aluminum garage door). I also printed a small case, put some cable ties around it and last but not least I used half a roll of insulation tape. I did install it in my engine compartment, right next to my fuse box. Didn’t want to report back, before I got some reasonable time to see if all works as expected… What can I say, I forgot about it, because everything works as expected. ![]()
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