Live tracking
With live tracking, friends and family can follow your sail. Your SWAY Breeze shares your position while you sail, all by itself, as long as it has internet on board.
How it works
1. The Breeze goes online through your router
The Breeze joins a Wi-Fi router with internet on board, such as a Starlink terminal or a 4G/LTE router. Your phone doesn’t need to be on: the Breeze does this itself.
2. Every 5 minutes while you sail
While your boat is moving, the Breeze sends your position, course and speed to SWAY every 5 minutes. When you stop, it sends one last update, so your final position is right. At anchor or in the harbour nothing is sent.
Breeze → your router → SWAY → the people who follow you.
3. Your followers see you sailing
Sailors who follow you in the SWAY app see that you are sailing now, and where you are on the map. Your position stays visible for 24 hours after the last update, so a long passage doesn’t disappear between updates.
Who can see it
You, and the people who follow you in the SWAY app. They need a SWAY account. Your live position is not on a public web page. For live tracking SWAY keeps only your latest position. Live tracking is off until you switch it on, and you can switch it off at any time.
Switch it on
- Connect the Breeze to your router: Breeze › Breeze settings › WiFi.
- Switch on live tracking: Breeze › Breeze settings › Live tracking.
Is the Breeze not connected to your router? The app tells you, because then nothing can be shared.
What you need
- A SWAY Breeze with the latest firmware
- A Wi-Fi router with internet on board, for example Starlink or a 4G/LTE router
- GPS data on your NMEA 2000 network
- SWAY Plus: €16,99 a year per Breeze, in the SWAY app
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