Miniplex-3Wi-N2K : Major updates

ShipModul manufacturer comes to provide on his website two major updates to dowload for its multiplexer Miniplex-3 :

• Firmware Miniplex-3 V.1.17
• Firmware Wi-Fi V.1.5.0.3

The two update files, featured with a procedure (in English), are packaged in a single folder WiFi V1.5.0.3. Download. The implementation can only be done with the configuration utility MPX-Config V.2.1.0 minimum, available in PC and Mac versions.

Miniplex-3 V.1.17

Necessary to operate the new Wi-Fi V.1.4 firmware, adds the following functions :

• NKE Support : support of some NKE proprietary NMEA sentences used by the manufacturer to add ASCII characters not supported by the NMEA0183 standard. The new firmware provides compatibility with these specific sentences.
• NMEA 2000 – Cibles AIS Classe B : le Miniplex-3 convertit les PGNs (¹) NMEA2000 V.2.0 in NMEA0183 sentences. The new firmware properly supports the conversion of the standard PGNs NMEA2000 V3.0 to NMEA0183 for AIS class B targets. This last standard is still used by many AIS transponders (²) dont Raymarine.

Wi-Fi V.1.4 1.5.0.3

Support of TCP and UDP modes of TCP/IP protocol (³). Le mode TCP ne permet qu’à un seul appareil (client mode) de recevoir les données d’un émetteur (server), le mode UDP permet de multiples connexions. The new Wi-Fi firmware allows you to connect up to 4 appareils simultanément au Miniplex-3 en UDP, one of the devices can also connect at the same time one application in UDP and a second one in TCP.

Procédure de mise à jour

Vous devez utiliser l’utilitaire MPX-Config (dernière version) à partir d’un Mac ou un PC. These must be connected both with the supplied USB cable AND Wi-Fi to the multiplexer powered 12V. It will be available in USB only if a suitable driver was previously installed (download from Téléchargements ShipModul's website, not from the CD-ROM).

Follow step-to-step procedure provided with the firmware files, d’abord la mise à jour du firmware, and then Wi-Fi. L’opération ne prend que quelques minutes. Updates run in a few tens of seconds.

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(¹) PGN = acronym for NMEA2000 sentences Parameter Group Numbers
(²) See https://navigation-mac.fr/category/materiel/ais/
(³) TCP/IP signifie « Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol » et se prononce « T-C-P-I-P ». TCP/IP is a communication protocol, dit client-serveur, consisting of a set of standardized rules of communication on the internet and is based on a technique to provide an IP address that is unique to each computer on the network in order to route data packets.
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