What is VesselView?
VesselView Mobile is a mobile app that provides Mercury Marine SmartCraft® engine owners with live engine data, fuel usage monitoring, fault descriptions, and maintenance alerts. The app requires a continuous connection and may impact the battery life of the device. The app also provides a web-based account for users.
- View live SmartCraft® engine data
- Speedometer tool
- Map with POIs
- Fuel usage tracking
- Active fault alerts and descriptive fault information
- Maintenance record keeping and reminders
- Location tagging for pictures and fish caught
- Timeline for reviewing moments and maintenance
- Weather and wind conditions updates
- Bluetooth Low Energy connection to SmartCraft® engine
- Normal phone operation while connected to the engine.
this app Mobile provides Mercury Marine SmartCraft® engine owners with the ability to view live engine data, monitor fuel usage, obtain detailed descriptions when a fault occurs and receive maintenance alerts when due. The full functionality of the app is available when used in conjunction with the Bluetooth Low Energy this app Mobile module. This app collects and shares your precise geolocation. When the app is open and connected to your vessel it requires a continuous connection and therefore may impact the battery life of your device. Without the module, users still have access to a speedometer tool, a map with POIs, the ability to capture moments with the location tagged, plus other useful features. Mercury Marine’s this app Mobile app also provides users with a Web-based account. Features: • View live SmartCraft® engine data : RPM, Battery Voltage, Engine Temperature, Engine Hours, Oil Temperature, Oil Pressure, Coolant Temperature, Sea Temperature and more! • Speed is determined from your device • Your Top Speed is captured so you can share with friends • Holeshot. A racing game that uses your device's GPS to see how soon you can get to 20mph or 30mph • Enter fuel on-board and the app tracks fuel usage • Average speed and fuel economy is calculated and used to estimate Distance to Empty and Time to Empty • Receive active fault alerts and corresponding descriptive fault information • Enter Maintenance records and get appropriate reminders in the future • See your location on a map with nearby Points of Interest • Capture Moments such as pictures or fish caught with a location tag • Use the timeline to review Moments or Maintenance • Weather and wind conditions updated periodically • Communicate wirelessly to your SmartCraft® engine through a Bluetooth Low Energy connection • Allows for normal phone operation – call, text, streaming music, search the web, etc. while connected to your Mercury Marine SmartCraft® engine ************ IMPORTANT INFORMATION ************************* • Mercury Marine’s this app Mobile app is free to install. The this app Mobile module can be purchased through Mercury Marine dealers or through a link inside the app. • The this app Mobile module works with SmartCraft® capable engines built since 2003 (40HP and up). One to four engines can be viewed simultaneously. • The this app Mobile module simply connects to a SmartCraft® connector located either at the helm or on the engine. • Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
By Johnsterman
I would still like to see any data parameter selectable for the main screen. Some of the parameters such as mpg are a couple of layers deep. Now to some compliments. Version 1.9 was a big update. To heck with using this on my iPhone, this is now really cool on an iPad. I use an iPad mini. You can use the built in iOS map app on one side and Vessel View on the other using split screen. Both apps have to support split screen for this to work. Other apps such as Navionics Boating do not support split screen, but you can use iOS slide over to put show Vessel View on about a third of the screen over such an app as Boating. You can do a search to find out the difference between slide over and split screen and how to use them. If you try this on an iPad, consider the following: The cellular iPads have GPS already built in and are ideal. However, you can get a Bluetooth GPS such as the Garmin GLO or Bad Elf to give a non-cellular iPad GPS capability.
By Junk_stuff
Generally has been a good product. But the latest update won’t connect to my iPhone XR. My other blue tooth devices work fine. It will connect to my daughters iPhone 8. Added 14 July: followed the developers advice, and received this back “Sometimes during application updates iPhones can corrupt the information stored in them for the device they are trying to connect to. I have found luck in downloading a free app called LightBlue. It is in the app store. Once you download this app, turn the key on so the module powers up. Go into LightBlue and locate the module in there, and connect to it. Once LightBlue has established a connection close out of this app. Now try it with VVM. I have found that by interrogating the device with an outside Bluetooth scanner app like LightBlue it fixes the information between the two.” I followed these directions and it worked like a champ. Completely solved my problem. Thanks!
By JohnnyGnStafford
I’ve had this on the boat since it first came out and I am very pleased with the information it provides. Love the fact that I can move it to another engine if needed. Also the colors from dark to light are great for seeing at high speed runs (70+mph). The main things that I focus on are h2o pressure, h2o temp and hours on the engine. Bottom line well worth the money. Would like to see a tuner mode add on. Be nice to touch a couple buttons and go from gas safer mode to go fast mode. Thanks.