VessleView Link vs SmartCraft Gateway question

[BassinLA13]

2022 Mercury Pro XS - 3B143674
Optional MercMonitor equipped.
2x HDS Lives networked (not powered on in this case ie. not showing up on the N2K DeviceList))

Ranger RIDE System (2.0.8)
Settings / Nmea 2K Device List

VVLS VessleView Link
VVLS SmartCraft Gateway


Different Unique ID’s but identical Serial #’s.

What’s the difference ? And any idea why the N2K network has them separately listed ?

IMG_1394.jpg

Thanks

[MichaelJ3]

2022 Mercury Pro XS - 3B143674
Optional MercMonitor equipped.
2x HDS Lives networked (not powered on in this case ie. not showing up on the N2K DeviceList))

Ranger RIDE System (2.0.8)
Settings / Nmea 2K Device List

VVLS VessleView Link
VVLS SmartCraft Gateway


Different Unique ID’s but identical Serial #’s.

What’s the difference ? And any idea why the N2K network has them separately listed ?

IMG_1394.jpg

Thanks

Both of those devices will show up in your device list on your Lowrance graphs too...not sure why, but that is the way it works...must have been some sort of requirement of the architecture of the bus or something.

[BassinLA13]

Ok thanks!

[EuropeanAM]

They're both listed as the GATEWAY can communicate with virtually ANY NMEA-2000 equipped display (Garmin, Raymarine, Select Humminbird, etc).

VesselView LINK Module works only with the proprietary paging software in the Mercury Displays, Lowrance and Simrad (most touch-screen) products.

[BassinLA13]

Thank you Don for the additional clarification.