Networking Garmin® Chartplotter with Volvo Penta Glass Cockpit System

Volvo Glass Cockpit Display is part of a specialized Volvo Penta System and will only network through Marine Ethernet with another Volvo Penta Chartplotter.  Connecting a non-Volvo Penta Garmin® Chartplotter via Marine Ethernet is not advised and it will not function properly.  Additional components are only available through authorized Volvo Penta distributors

Garmin VP chartplotters can be connected to a non-Volvo Penta chartplotter through NMEA 2000, but not all data is shared through this type of connection. 

Examples of data that will not share across the NMEA 2000 network are radar, sonar and supplemental mapping or built-in mapping.

The installation manual for the Garmin Chartplotter will provide a list of NMEA 2000 PGNs that will be transmitted and received.