It seems that the output format of my echo sounder is not supported, what can I do?

Hydromagic supports most (single beam) echo sounders on the market, including a couple of commonly used echo sounder output format including:

• NMEA0183;
• DESO25;
• Odom SBT/DBT.

When your sounder does not support one of the above data outputs, and there is no dedicated plugin for your sounder in Hydromagic, you can use the "Generic echo sounder plugin".

Using this plugin, you can specify the format which is used by your echo sounder by yourself. Please note that this only works if your sounder is outputting human-readable ASCII sentences.

For more information about loading, configuring and using this plugin, please refer to the "Generic echo sounder plugin" page in the online user manual.

Use the "Generic echo sounder plugin" to use an unsupported echo sounder in Hydromagic.