Adrena Octopus
Octopus
Navigation software - Navigation assistance - Mooring - Weather forecast - Routing - Safety - Polars
• Vector and raster charts compatibility • Waypoints and routes management • Best route calculation • Mooring assistance graphic module • Assistance for speed polar and sails usage charts creation • Real polars calculation from navigation data • Routing analysis and comparison • Dual routing: sailing and motoring • Night navigation taken into account in the routing • Graphical display of day/night periods • GRIB files download online and by email • Custom alarms: depth, wind force, wp, etc. • MOB, AIS and alarms detection
Q&A
FUNCTIONALITY | HOW? | Q&A |
AIS | CZONE
. Turn ‘Electronics / VHF + Hailer’ ON
OCTOPUS
. Menu / AIS / AIS Boat List
. Toolbar / AIS / AIS Alarm | Questions
1. AIS transmitting ships table is empty. Why?
2. AIS Alarms: none. Why? |
INVOICES
@September 13, 2023 paid 356.40 + 2,316.48 = 2,672.88 Euros (Bank transfer LCL)
QUOTES
COMPUTER COMPARISON
Computer Specs | Amazon - HUNSN | ROM Arrangé |
Processor | INTEL i7 1165G7 | INTEL Core i3-1115G4E |
Memory | 16 GB | So-Dimm DDR4 8GB (Max 16 GB) |
Hard-Drive | SSD 512 GB | mSATA SSD 512 GB |
Peripherals | x1 HDMI
x1 DP
x4 USB 3.0
x4 USB 2.0
x1 Ethernet LAN
Bluetooth 4.0 / 4.2
Speaker
Microphone
WiFi 802.11ac ( (WiFi 5 - 5GHz (2.4 GHz?) band - 1,300 Mbps)) | x2 HDMI 4k
x2 Display Port 4K
x4 COM
x4 USB 3.2
x2 RJ45 Gigabit LAN |
Power | 12V 7A supply | DC 9-19V jack |
Dimensions | 225mm x 185mm x 45mm | 193mm (W) x 142.4mm (D) x 62mm (H) |
Weight | 2.5 Kg | 2.2 Kg |
Power consumption | 15W | 12-15W on average. 25W peak |
Win OS | Win 11 Pro | Win 10 pro FR |
PRICE | €633 (TTC) | €1,490 (TTC) |
Conversation w/ Ronan (@June 12, 2023)
0. Adrena Octopus
Octopus UI
- 2018: revamp of UI
- Now one new developer + one support person in Support (Julien) doing code too
- Meme base de code / UI qu’Adrena
- Connection radar: Navico - B&G? (Halo), Koden (radar PC - ouvert )
- Radar Halo 20+ devrait être compatible
- Double écran ou superimposition
AdrenaShip for big companies (measured risk about company / dev team)
- Brittany Ferries
- CMA
Installation
- Cable
- NMEA 0183 connection to computer (Eloi / Pochon)
- Hub ethernet for radar (network card) (Eloi / Pochon)
- ethernet cable between computer and radar
- Electronic schematic / manual (Eloi)
- Installation pre-delivery for parametrage
- PepWave - everything on network (PC, radar…)??? -
- Installation on Escale on July 5
- Ronan: vacances du 7-11 aout
- 14 aout?
Training - au bureau a Montpellier
- after mid-Juillet
1. Ordinateur
=> Je vais acheter le même ordinateur que Pierre-Alain (HUNSN 4K fanless mini PC)
2. Mini Routeur
=> A bord on a déjà le Pepwave MAX BR1 PRO CAT-20 comme routeur WiFi.
3. Pack Adrena Octopus + 1 CMap MW
=> Approved
Pour information, notre plan est de rester dans la partie ouest de la Méditerranée cet été/automne (Corse, Sardaigne, Espagne, Tunisie), puis de se rendre aux Canaries pour une traversée de l'Atlantique cet hiver. On montera au nord jusqu'à Miami pour le 'boat show', puis les Bahamas et on redescendra vers le sud pour hiverner dans les îles ABCs.
Je vois que vous avez un Pack Transat, c'est sans doute plus adapté à notre programme pour 2023-2024.
- MW (EW-M010): West Eur. Coasts & West Med CMapW (NA-M027): Gulf of Mexico and Central America
Pack Transat+: include raster chart of Cap Vert
ROM Arrange: Powered by 12V to bypass 220V
- Install firewall behind to control communications
- Experience in this area for Iridium installations
ROAM antenna: 50GB
- Initialization of antenna: 5-6GB download
Questions:
- Si jamais on décide d'aller au Cap Vert par exemple, est-ce que tu peux downloader des cartes supplémentaires sur internet ou faut-il absolument commander une carte SD à l'avance?
- Download ok with Octopus
- USB key at first and link for download
- On aura un chartplotter B&G dans le cockpit. Est-ce que l'on peut réutiliser les cartes ou il faudra 2 jeux de carte différents (B&G + Octopus)?
- B&G: Navionics
- Adrena: CMap
- US: free charts (raster)
- Can be read in Octopus
- Est-il possible de facturer Outremer directement? C'est ce que UShip fait, comme ça on n'a pas à payer la TVA.
- Norbert: bills integrated to leasing (VAT not paid)
- Bills to leasing company (LIZmer)
- Or Outremer?
- Est-ce que tu as une formation de 2 jours planifiée avec EFT dans les prochains mois?
- Formation done by Ronan (ROMArrange)
- Early September or later (birth)
- Iridium GO! as backup
- ROMArrange has stock
HUNSN 4K Fanless Mini PC, Desktop Computer, Server, Intel Core 11th Gen I7 1165G7, Windows 11 Pro Or Linux Ubuntu, BM14, WiFi, BT, DP, HDMI, LAN, 16G RAM DDR4, 512G SSD
- 16G RAM
- 512 SSD
- Model: i7 1165G7
- Price: $702
- Q&A
- INVOICES
- QUOTES
- COMPUTER COMPARISON
- Conversation w/ Ronan (@June 12, 2023)
- Q&As
- What is the difference between Octopus and Adrena First?
- Does Octopus have Performance Analysis?
- Does it really come in a CD? Downloadable version?
- ABOUT ADRENA
- OCTOPUS
- Navigation Assistance
- Mooring
- Weather Forecast
- Routing
- Safety
- Polars
- TESTING
- Demo version
- Evaluation version
- BUYING OCTOPUS
- REQUIREMENTS
- DESCRIPTION
- Comfort and safety along the navigation
- Routing calculation
- Polars
- Mooring assistance
- NEW FEATURES
- KEY FEATURES
- System
- Navigation
- Security
- Routing
- Polars
- FAQs
- OTHER VERSIONS
- TUTORIALS
- MAIN FUNCTIONS
- FEEDBACK FROM NORBERT (O55#20)
Q&As
What is the difference between Octopus and Adrena First?
Does Octopus have Performance Analysis?
- Does Adrena offer a 2 day training?
- Escale Formation Technique training in Nantes
Does it really come in a CD? Downloadable version?
ABOUT ADRENA
ADRENA is a company specialized in navigation software and performance analysis. Located near Nantes in France, Adrena provides a complete and evolutive range of products to the world of sailing. With its software Octopus, First, Standard and Pro, Adrena is designed to address both yachtsmen and high-level sailors needs.
Logiciels de navigation pour la régate et l'étude de performance - Adrena software
OCTOPUS
OCTOPUS navigation software is designed to answer the specific needs of cruising navigators.
ADRENA condensed all its expertise to develop OCTOPUS, a navigation software dedicated to offshore cruising. OCTOPUS software helps the sailors to anticipate their navigation serenely to ensure optimum comfort and safety along their voyage.
OCTOPUS allows the navigators to customize the routing calculation according to their preferences: speed, comfort, security and so on. It provides a graphic mooring assistance as well as speed polar diagrams and sails usage charts wizards. Multiple features linked to safety such as MOB, AIS and alarms are also provided.
Avoiding high winds and waves, visualizing your sailing and motoring periods, anticipating weather conditions on the mooring area… Cruising enthusiasts, you have specific needs and Octopus software is there to fit them!
Navigation Assistance
Octopus navigation software provides routing calculation according to your preferences - whether you are looking for the fastest route, the most comfortable or the most economical in terms of fuel consumption. The routing analysis module allows you to choose the optimum route with the best compromise between speed, security, comfort, fuel consumption and time of arrival.
Mooring
The mooring assistance module provides a graphical display of the conditions to be expected on the chosen mooring area: weather forecast, sea level according to the tide, and so on.
Weather Forecast
GRIB files can be downloaded online and by email up to 16 days.
They can be displayed on screen - wind, waves, atmospheric pressure, etc. - and are used for routing calculation.
Routing
Octopus provides a powerful, unique and intuitive routing module.
It calculates the best route taking into account several settings: date of departure or arrival, boat's speed polar diagram and weather forecast. The routing analysis function allows you to compare the different options and to choose the best one according to your own preferences - speed, comfort, safety and son on.
Safety
For more serenity all along the navigations, Octopus provides multiple functions linked to safety such as MOB, AIS and alarms: anchor drag alarm, coast detection, MOB, AIS and customized alarms (depth, wind force and direction, etc.).
Polars
Octopus includes setup wizards to create the polars of your boat from navigation data as well as the sails use charts. This ensures reliability and accuracy in routing calculation.
TESTING
Demo version
- Duration: unlimited
- No connection to instruments
- No ability to save data
Evaluation version
- All functions (full version)
- Ability to connect to instruments
- Duration: 1 month
BUYING OCTOPUS
Octopus Archives - Adrena software
- OCTOPUS - No cartography included - 1,100 Euros
- Software only. Charts and currents not included.
- Pack OCTOPUS CMAP - 1,300 Euros
- This pack includes: Octopus Cruising software + Routing + Dongle + 1 MW CMap
- Pack OCTOPUS SNMAP - 1,150 Euros
- This pack includes: Octopus Cruising + Routing + Dongle + 1 SnMap raster chart
REQUIREMENTS
PC Configuration | PC running under Windows 7 or 8 or 10 ('Ready for Windows') |
Screen | 1024X768 minimum |
NMEA Connexion | NMEA 0183 connexion via port COM, USB or network |
USB Slot | Dedicated USB slot for the dongle |
DVD Drive | Graphic memory : 256 Mo min |
Memory | Graphic memory : 256 Mo min |
CPU | 1,5 GHz mini / 2 GHz recommended |
RAM Memory | 2 Go mini / 6 Go recommended |
DESCRIPTION
Comfort and safety along the navigation
Especially developed for cruising enthusiasts, Octopus helps you to anticipate your navigation serenely for best comfort and optimum safety along the voyage.
Routing calculation
Routing calculation can be customized according to the sailor’s preferences – fastest or most comfortable route for example – and a time of arrival can be set up.
A graphical display indicates the day/night periods to provide a safer navigation.
Polars
Wizard assistant for real speed polar creation is provided. The function offers a more accurate and reliable routing that corresponds to the boat potential.
Mooring assistance
Graphical interface of the conditions to be expected on the chosen mooring area: weather forecast, sea level according to the tide, etc.
Multiple functions linked to safety such as MOB, AIS and alarms (AIS, mooring, arrival on coasts, custom alarms).
NEW FEATURES
Version 20, a prelude to ADRENA 20th anniversary
Among all new features of this anniversary version, the interfaces with other on-board instruments should be highlighted.
- Radar overlay display for Navico and Koden
- Watt&Sea Hygrogenerators data display
- Nke and Victron Energy data display
- OSCAR Targets and cone angle detection display
By summing up all data coming out the instruments, Adrena becomes a major tool to have for your navigations and safety at sea.
KEY FEATURES
System
- Multi-monitor software
- Touch screen mode
- Backup/recovery of settings, files and cartography
- Automatic reload of the last environment on startup
- Automatic detection of cable instruments
- Automatic sending of waypoint data to the instruments displays
- In/out communication with WIFI device
Navigation
- Calibration of instruments (log, compass and windvane)
- Waypoints & routes management
- Charts compatibility: electronic vector charts (C-Map MAX) and raster charts (SnMap, BSB)
- Automatic creation of waypoint on C-Map buoy
- Search tool on the chart for ports, waypoints or roadbooks
- GRIB files download online and by email up to 16 days
- NOAA, Predictwind, Tidetech and Great Circle direct interface
- Global tide module
- Tide charts compatibility: SHOM, Proudman (+ high resolution), Winning Tides
- Display of weather and tide conditions on mooring
- Display of the route on the opposite tack
- Logbook (position, wind, speed and observations)
- Roadbook with possibility to add visual annotations on the chart
- Data export to Google Earth
- Superimposition of georeferenced images
- Meteogram
- Import/export of GPX files
- Sending calculated data to iPhone or iPad
Security
- Man overboard tracking with drift calculation
- Sart AIS MOB detection
- Safety alarms: MOB, AIS, coast detection, anchor drag alarm
- Custom alarms: depth, wind force and direction, wp, etc.
- AIS Anti-collision system
Routing
- Best route calculation while automatically avoiding coastlines
- Routing in 2 clicks • Dual Routing: sailing and motoring
- Integration of tide/current data in routing calculations
- Possibility to set up min/max values in routing calculation: wind speed/angle and waves height
- Table of legs: routing(s) summary
- Display of encountered conditions: wind, current, tide and waves
- Best route calculation according to a given time of arrival
- Display of day/night periods
- Routing calculation of a route with several waypoints
- Simulation of several simultaneous routings
- Use of several GRIB files in routing calculation
- Routing hypothesis on time of departure/arrival, max wind/waves
- Statistics on routing: wind, points of sailing, comfort
- Use of a different polar for day and night periods
- Possibility to draw exclusion areas (Roadbook)
Polars
- Real polars calculation from navigation data
- VPP polar diagrams creation
- Sails use charts management (Sailect)
- Possibility to correct recorded tracks
FAQs
- Adrena recognize C-Map charts which are already unlocked on the PC. These charts must be unlocked by a chart license code. This one can be linked to the Adrena dongle or to another software’s dongle. In both of case, the dongle to which charts are linked has to be plugged in the PC.
- The GPS can be read through the NMEA output of the instruments or thanks to an independent connexion. The second solution requires an additional COM port but it offers two advantages:
- The positions arrive directly and fast in the software as you do not have to go through the NMEA bus. Quite interesting for all transition phases and time calculation (departure).
- You can get direct communication between Adrena and your GPS, especially to transfer waypoints or routes.
- All new data can be read by Adrena if it is available in a NMEA XDR sentence. To do that, go to menu Settings->General Settings-> generic data. Run the NMEA sentence reading and the software is going to detect XDR sentences. Then, you can complete them in the tool (unity, decimal numbers…). So first thing to do is to extract the new captor data a XDR NMEA sentence.
OTHER VERSIONS
- Adrena First (650 Euros)
- Aimed at cruising enthusiasts and occasional racers looking for a simplified version of Adrena Standard. A straightforward and easy-to-use piece of software.
- Adrena Standard (1,500 Euros)
- Aimed at navigators and keen racers looking for powerful tools. It offers multiple features to optimize decision-making process.
- Adrena Pro (2,350 Euros)
- designed for professional navigators looking for a top quality solution. It gathers all Adrena expertise to provide the most sophisticated features and to fit high-level sailors requirements.
TUTORIALS
Nos tutos vidéos - Adrena software
https://www.youtube.com/c/Adrena-software
MAIN FUNCTIONS
FEEDBACK FROM NORBERT (O55#20)
Moi je prend Max sea TZ navigator / iBoat
++ société solide
++ fluidité sur PC
++ pas de bugs
++ PC et IPhone IPad
++ beaucoup + Simple
Les moins
- - Radar seulement Furuno
- - pas de calcul automatique de polaire
- - pas de multiple routage en une seule fois mais en pas a pas
Adrena bien trop compliqué MSdos des années 2000 avec des bugs. dépendant d’une seule personne qui a 65 ans.
Les seuls plus de Adrena c’est la frime de la course au large. les polaires auto et le multi routage, la connection radar ne fonctionne pas encore et il faut déconnecter le radar du BetG
Tout le monde ou presque prend Adrena a cause de l’image course.
Moi j’utilise Maxsea depuis 15 ans même en course.