Export all received AIS or NMEA data to XML or a text file

If you need to export a lot of variables, forget about using a database. The reason is simple: A database table can contain only a limited number of columns, and many empty cells in each row make this method of data storage very inefficient.

Instead, we recommend writing data in the text format to a log file or an XML file.

Write data to a text file

1. Enable the displaying of values in the application’s main window (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Data output mode

2. Turn on the writing of the screen content to a log file.

Figure 2: Data output to a log file

Export data to an XML file

1. Enable the "Local database" data export module (Figure 3).

Figure 3: Select a data export module

2. Configure XML file generation (Figure 4).

Figure 4: Configure data output to an XML file

3. Specify any number of variables to be exported.

 
Figure 5: The list of exported variables

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• FAQ.
• Get NMEA GPS and Sounder data through the OPC interface.
• Write NMEA data to a database (using MS Access in this example).
• Export AIS data to a database.
• Export all received AIS or NMEA data to XML or a text file.
• Saving NMEA or AIS data to a Microsoft Excel file (CSV format).
• Saving selected NMEA values to an Excel file (CSV format).
• Grouping NMEA data from two data sources to one row in a CSV file.
• Grouping NMEA data from two data sources with different communication parameters.
• Decoding AIS files (batch AIS files processing).