Logbook in the app

What you get

On board

• Logbook table under Menu › “Ship’s Log”, newest entries first, one heading per day:

• Entries the Hub sets itself: Casting off and arriving with the type of berthing (Trip and berth detection), engine on and off (Engine detection), for sailing boats tacks and gybes (Tack and gybe), your autopilot (Autopilot in the logbook) and every change to the anchor watch and battery alarm: activated, changed, deactivated, triggered, ended, signal lost and back.
• Refuelling and maintenance (from 1.48.0): “Refuelled” and “Maintenance” entries that you set yourself, each with its own symbol (fuel pump, oil can for the oil change, spanner for repair and other). The row shows type, amount, “Full tank” and the engine hours per engine, for example “Oil change at Engine 1: 1,284 h 00 min”.
• Motorboats (from 1.48.0): If your boat is set as “Motorboat” in the boat configuration, the logbook shows movement without a running engine as “Drifting” with its own symbol instead of “Sailing”, on board and remotely. The app hides tacks and gybes, and the “Maneuvers” filter too.
• Expanding shows a whole sentence for alarm and autopilot entries, for example that your boat has left the anchor area with a 40 m radius, with your note below it.
• Swiping right opens “Detail” and, for tacks and gybes, also “Maneuver” for the manoeuvre analysis.
• Filter via the filter symbol (“Filter by entry type”):

• Importance: Three colour dots next to the filter show only entries with notes of that importance.
• In the Plotter the logbook is its own page, and the “Logbook Status” tile shows the current state and jumps there.
• Period: The logbook follows the time range selector at the top right, when opened matching what your boat is doing right now.
• New entries appear by themselves, without reloading.

Remotely

• If you connect the Hub to the cloud, you see the same logbook with all notes under Menu › “Ship’s Log” and in the Dashboard, and so do your Boat Buddies.
• Notes from home: You add notes and change them including their importance, also after the trip. They go to the Hub at the next sync. This works only for your own boat, your Boat Buddies read along.
• In the time range selector you find the GPX export as the owner.

How it works

Quick entry (on board)

1. In the top bar tap ”+”, or with an empty logbook “Create one now”.
2. Tap an entry: Sailing (on motorboats “Drifting”), Motor sailing (not on motorboats), Motoring, Tack, Gybe, Engine on, Engine off, Anchored, Moored, Docked. It is saved immediately with the current time, and the app says “Entry added: {entry}”.
3. Or open “Note” at the top, write the text and optionally choose the importance.
4. For an entry at a different time use “Custom Entry” at the bottom: date, time, type and note.

Recording refuelling or maintenance (on board, from 1.48.0)

1. Tap ”+” and then “Refuelled” or “Maintenance”. The entry expands.
2. Refuelled: Optionally enter the “Amount (l)”; the “Full tank” switch is on. The engine hours belong to every refuelling entry, for all engines.
3. Maintenance: Under “Type” choose “Oil change”, “Repair” or “Other”. For repair and other you describe under “What?” what was done, for example “replaced impeller”, and with “Engine related” you set whether engine hours belong to it. An oil change always has engine hours. If you have several engines, you choose under “Affected engines”.
4. Engine hours: The app prefills them per engine, “Live from engine” if your engine is currently sending its engine hours to the NMEA 2000 network, and “From engine data at this time” for an entry at an earlier point in time. With the pencil (“Edit engine hours”) you enter hours and minutes yourself (“Entered manually”), and “Use engine value” brings back the value from the engine. If there is no engine data, the app shows “No engine data at this time. Read the engine hours meter and enter its value.”
5. Optionally write a note with importance and tap “Save”.

• For an earlier point in time you choose the type “Refuelled” or “Maintenance” under “Custom Entry”.
• When expanded you can later change type, amount, description and engine hours, as with other own entries only on board.

Writing or changing a note

1. Expand the entry and tap the pencil, or press and hold the entry.
2. Write your text and optionally choose Low, Medium or High.
3. When you collapse it, the app saves, “Note saved” with “Undo”.

Changing your own entry (on board)

• For entries you created yourself, you can also change time and type when expanded.

Deleting (on board)

• Swipe the entry to the left and tap “Delete entry”, or use the red button in the detail view. For five seconds you can bring it back with “Undo”. You also delete detected entries this way; what is removed along with it is described in Logbook self-correction.

Setting the prompt for detected entries

• Under Settings › System › “Detected logbook entries” you choose for which detections the app asks on board: Status, Maneuvers, Engine, Alarm events, Autopilot. Only “Engine” is switched on. The entries end up in the logbook in every case.
• If the prompt ”‘{entry}’ detected!” appears, “Confirm” closes it, “Deny” deletes the entry immediately.

Requirements

• On board: app connected to the Hub. No internet, no account, no subscription.
• Remotely: Hub connected to the cloud, Smartboatia ID and internet on your phone or tablet. Without a cloud connection the logbook is only available on board.
• Refuelling and maintenance (from 1.48.0): app and Hub from version 1.48.0. Prefilled engine hours are only available if your engine sends its engine hours to the NMEA 2000 network; otherwise you read the hour meter.
• Drifting instead of Sailing: boat type “Motorboat” in the boat configuration.

Permissions and subscription

• Subscription: fully usable without a subscription; the Standard subscription adds nothing extra. How quickly entries arrive in the cloud depends on when the Hub has internet; the values for duration, distance and sea state follow without a subscription with a delay of up to 6 hours (see Recording on board).

Notifications

• In the app on board: “Entry added: {entry}”, “Entry deleted” and “Note saved” (each with “Undo” for deleting and for notes), the prompt for detected entries.
• Push for casting off and arriving, see Trip and berth detection. There is no push notification for notes, own entries and deletions.

Messages and special cases

Offline behaviour

• On board the logbook works fully without internet. If you connect the Hub to the cloud, it receives everything the next time the Hub has internet.
• Loaded entries are stored by the app per boat on your phone or tablet. Without a connection it shows this state and tries to reload every 30 seconds.
• Hub restart: The logbook is kept, the sync resumes where it stood.