NMEA Bluetooth Access

Turns an Android phone into an NMEA 0183 instrument. It streams the phone's GPS position, heading, roll and pitch, rate of turn, pressure, temperature, humidity and time over Bluetooth to a chartplotter, navigation computer or laptop.

• Get it on Google Play
• Privacy policy

What it sends

• GPS: the phone's own NMEA sentences, a filtered set (GSV, GSA, VTG, RMC, GGA), or sentences built from each location fix.
• Heading: HDG with your compass deviation and the local magnetic variation, or Freeboard IMU output with roll and pitch.
• Rate of turn: ROT from the gyroscope.
• Weather: XDR pressure, temperature and humidity, on phones that have those sensors.
• Time: ZDA date and time.

Each source has its own interval, and streaming can continue in the background with an ongoing notification.

Premium

A one-time purchase lets the connected device send and receive text messages through the phone, send email from your Gmail account, and post to X, using simple text commands over the same Bluetooth link.

What you need

• An Android phone running Android 8.0 or newer.
• A device that accepts Bluetooth serial (SPP) connections, paired in Android's Bluetooth settings.