#Does garmin homeport work on windows 10 install#

Install the Active Captain app on your device.

I had to de-register it by logging into that Garmin account (you get a de-register option) and then create a new Garmin account with my email and re-register it.

When I tried to link the two (step 5.4 below) I got a message saying that this device was already registered to a different account. I had an AC account with my email and our Garmin account had DaveвЂ™s email. IMPORTANT: It was never directly stated, but from the error messages I got and what finally fixed them, it seems to be important to register BOTH Active Captain and your Garmin account with the SAME EMAIL.Without a wifi-enabled chartplotter, AC information will NOT appear on your chartplotter. Their instructions are less than clear if itвЂ™s not wifi-enabled hence my step-by-step directions here. If yours is wifi enabled, the AC app walks you through creating a connection between your mobile device and the chartplotter and downloading the maps. These instructions are specifically for chartplotters that are not wifi-enabled. Installing Active Captain and Using Your Garmin Charts

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How I create a route in Home Port has not changed since I wrote this article on how to do it. iPad on the left with Active Captain data Garmin Home Port on my laptop on the right. Check things in Active Captain and then create the route in Home Port. The iPad in my lap and the laptop on the table in front of me. So for me, the вЂњsolutionвЂќ is to put Active Captain with Garmin charts on my iPad and create my routes using Garmin Home Port on my laptop. You must have Garmin charts that are newer than 2012 or you canвЂ™t access them with the app.To me, itвЂ™s much easier to create routes on my laptop (keyboard and mouse) than on a touch-screen tablet.Creating a route in the Active Captain app and then transferring it to your chartplotter is convoluted.ItвЂ™s convoluted to set up (but see below for instructions).A phone screen is ridiculously small to actually see charts.Using the AC app without a wifi chartplotter has its drawbacks, too: I donвЂ™t know because I (like many others) have an older chartplotter without wifi. ItвЂ™s my understanding that if you have a wifi-enabled chartplotter, the charts will easily transfer to the app and the Active Captain data to the chartplotter.

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If you have a Garmin chartplotter or otherwise buy charts for the app, you can download Garmin charts to the app so that you see the Active Captain information overlaid on the chart. There is no equivalent app or program for Windows or Mac. Garmin developed an Active Captain app that works on mobile devices. Using it in a web browser is simply a non-starter for me. So I need a way to get the information offline. I know that in the Bahamas there will be plenty of anchorages where I donвЂ™t have an internet connection or only a sketchy one.

And looking at the data on a Navionics chart while creating a route on Garmin charts is just a little weird (Garmin just bought Navionics, too).

It means flipping between the web browser and the Home Port app on your computer to use the Active Captain data while preparing a route.

It requires a fairly good internet connection.

You can access Active Captain overlaid on a Navionics chart through a web browser, but this has three limitations : NOAA charts for the US and Explorer Charts for the Bahamas. Aqua Map has both Active Captain and Waterway Guide info (plus tides and satellite images if desired). UPDATE: After writing this, I learned about a great alternative.

Using the Active Captain app on a compatible deviceД«oth have limitations as far as IвЂ™m concerned but using the Active Captain app on a tablet is the least bad solution.

Using Active Captain in a web browser OR.

Now, there are two options for getting Active Captain overlaid on a chart: Later that year, Garmin removed Active Captain from Home Port, their program that lets you create routes on your laptop and then transfer them to your Garmin chartplotter. Garmin bought out Active Captain in May of 2017.

Each green anchor symbol has information about an anchorage other symbols tell of navigational hazards, marinas, information about stores and sightseeing, and more. In the US, Bahamas and Caribbean, itвЂ™s generally a good source of information although you should never rely totally on one source of information. For those not familiar with Active Captain, itвЂ™s crowd-sourced information about anchorages, towns, channels and pretty much everything else that you find on charts.