About Anchor Sentry
Anchor Sentry is an app to monitor the ship's position at anchor and inform the skipper when the anchor is dragging and thus the ship leaves the setup perimeter. Features: - Show current position on GoogleMaps map or...
Anchor Sentry is an app to monitor the ship's position at anchor and inform the skipper when the anchor is dragging and thus the ship leaves the setup perimeter.
Features:
- Show current position on GoogleMaps map or Navionics map (To gain
access to Navionics maps from this application, users with an active Navionics
subscription in the Navionics Boating application must register with their Navionics
credentials)
- Distance circles to help finding a good anchor position
- Drop anchor by tapping on map or by position or by bearing and distance
- Can be used for anchoring with shore lines by watching the heading rather than the position
- Tracks can be saves as GPX file for later processing
- Option to set up prohibited zones which will trigger an alert when entered. These can be used indepent of the anchor state
- Runs in the background even while other apps are used
- Unique sync functionality which allows to pair two or more devices together to see the ships position even while out to shore for dinner
- Barograph function included
- Display real echo sounder data from a providing NMEA server
- Optional compass overlay to help finding the bearing to the anchor
- Option to show current position visible to friends and family on the Anchor Sentry website
- Proximity alert between ships both using Anchor Sentry. To get warned when your neighbours anchor is dragging.
- Automatic anchoring feature
- Display maximum swinging circle
- Save favorite anchoring places with pictures
- Several setup options to customize your app
Sep 13, 2023
Version 2.8
- Compass reading of the device is not correctly shown in top right corner of the map.
- Boat vector while moving is now also displayed on the Navionics map.
- Improved the user feedback when downloading Navionics maps for offline use.
- Navionics maps now recognize the selected unit (feet or meter) for displaying depths.
- Navionics user can now set some chart options like in the Boating App. For this the "Navionics login" entry in the settings has been replaced with a "Navionics settings" entry. The former "Navionics login" you will find within the new settings page.
- Auto anchoring now uses the NMEA heading if available.
- Added the device distance from bow to the ship data settings. This is the same value as in the auto anchoring settings. If enabled in the ship data settings this distance will used to adjust the anchoring position when droping the anchor as well as the alert radius.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Anchor Sentry since it was posted on our website on 2021-09-17 16:50:29.
The latest version is 2.8 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 17:20:35. See below the changes in each version.
Anchor Sentry version 2.8
Updated At: 2023-09-13
Changes: Sep 13, 2023
Version 2.8
- Compass reading of the device is not correctly shown in top right corner of the map.
- Boat vector while moving is now also displayed on the Navionics map.
- Improved the user feedback when downloading Navionics maps for offline use.
- Navionics maps now recognize the selected unit (feet or meter) for displaying depths.
- Navionics user can now set some chart options like in the Boating App. For this the "Navionics login" entry in the settings has been replaced with a "Navionics settings" entry. The former "Navionics login" you will find within the new settings page.
- Auto anchoring now uses the NMEA heading if available.
- Added the device distance from bow to the ship data settings. This is the same value as in the auto anchoring settings. If enabled in the ship data settings this distance will used to adjust the anchoring position when droping the anchor as well as the alert radius.
Anchor Sentry version 2.7.1
Updated At: 2023-08-14
Changes: Aug 14, 2023
Version 2.7.1
- Fixed a false error message when registering an userid
Anchor Sentry version 2.7
Updated At: 2023-07-27
Changes: Jul 27, 2023
Version 2.7
- The option to keep track upon app start has been removed. Current track data will now always be kept. Instead there is now the option (enabled by default) to delete track points that are more than 1 nm away from the current location upon app start. Please keep in mind that having to many track data saved may adversely effect the apps performance.
- There is now a new button in the toolbar to show your boats swinging circle on the map in addition to the alert circle, based on actual chain length and depth. See the help for more details.
- You can now attach pictures to stored anchoring places.
- Systemlog entries are now deleted after 5 days.
Anchor Sentry version 2.6
Updated At: 2023-07-03
Changes: Jul 3, 2023
Version 2.6
- Bearing and distance as well as the most recent GPS update time are now correctly displayed when the app is brought to the foreground.
- The graphics on the map shouldn't spontaneously vanish any longer.
- New experimental feature: Automatic anchoring. The App will drop the anchor automatically as soon as certain conditions are met. Please check the corresponding help page in the settings. This is an experimental feature still in development. Please let me now your experience with it.
Anchor Sentry version 2.5.1
Updated At: 2023-05-29
Changes: May 29, 2023
Version 2.5.1
- There is now a confirmation dialog for raising the anchor and disarming the alert. You can switch off these dialogs in the settings.
- For better readability activated buttons now have a green background. This applies only to the 3D button style.
- Mirroring: Fixed a problem that the receiver could not reestablish the connection once terminated.
Anchor Sentry version 2.5
Updated At: 2022-11-23
Changes: Nov 23, 2022
Version 2.5
- Perimeter alert, proximity alert and battery alert can now configured to use different sounds.
- Added the possibility to use custom alarm sounds.
- Distances can now also been shown in feet instead of meter. See Settings.
- Added a contact form in the Settings.
- There is a new style for the main buttons that you may find more intuitive than the old style. If you prefer the old style you can switch to it in the Settings.
- Anchoring using the position dialog now works correctly at southern latitudes and western longitudes.
- Anchor Sentry uses now Critical Alerts. Critical Alerts will play even when the device is muted or set to not disturb. The next time you toggle alert on, you will be asked to allow Critical Alerts. You can disable this feature in the settings.
Anchor Sentry version 2.4.6
Updated At: 2022-06-13
Changes: Jun 13, 2022 Version 2.4.6
- Fixed a color problem with the titlebar in iOS 15+.
- Using the bearing/distance part of the anchoring dialog, once you start entering values manually in the bearing field, the compass updates will be suspended.
- Other ships at anchor (on the server) no longer trigger a proximity alert if the last position update from the ship is older than 2 hours. It is then assumed that that ship left without properly raising anchor within the app.
Anchor Sentry version 2.4.5
Updated At: 2022-05-10
Changes: May 10, 2022 Version 2.4.5
- Fixed a problem in iOS 15 with not coloring the titlebar when anchoring and arming the alert.
Anchor Sentry version 2.4.3
Updated At: 2021-09-08
Changes: Sep 8, 2021 Version 2.4.3
- A device can no longer be set to transmit while not anchored.
- Sending a device to receive while the device you anchored with is not already transmitting will automatically the anchoring device to transmit, provided it has the proximity alert active.
- Terminating the app for any reasons will now remove the device as active device from the server after 5 minutes.
- The receiver will now also show the transmission time of the data if it differs from the receiving time.
- General improvements on communication stability and recovery.
- Automatic screen locking can now be disabled in the settings.
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