Mercury Vessel View/ Smart Craft ?

[Scherbacj]

I am looking to add Vessel View Mobile to my 75HP 4-Stroke, but it seems to be out of stock or maybe discontinued?  but it looks like the Smart Craft Connect is the same price and does pretty much the same thing, does anyone know the difference? Are there advantages to one or the other? 
 

Will either of those connect with my Lowrance graphs? or can I only do that with the full Vessel View Link? 

[Choporoz]

I only heard of Smart Craft earlier today.  Looks the same.  I have Vessel View.  Mine only works in the app; and only when key is in, and only when I have phone signal.  I was glad I got it.  But, until I have problems with the motor, the only thing it does for me is keep track of hours.

[Scherbacj]

I think I figured it out. It sounds like the Vessel View Mobile was discontinued and replaced by the Smartcraft Connect Module. It does the same thing. 
 

3 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

I only heard of Smart Craft earlier today.  Looks the same.  I have Vessel View.  Mine only works in the app; and only when key is in, and only when I have phone signal.  I was glad I got it.  But, until I have problems with the motor, the only thing it does for me is keep track of hours.

So you can only use it if your cell phone has reception? That kinda sucks because a lot of the lakes I go to don’t have reception a lot of places when on the water. I mostly want it to track the hours, confirm my RPM’s, etc. but if I can’t use when I’m on the water it doesn’t do much good. I might look into the full Vessel View Link which integrates with my graphs. It doesn’t make sense why the Mobile won’t integrate with the graphs since they also have Bluetooth and WiFi. 

[Choporoz]

Edit to add that if you google 'vessel view vs smart craft', you may find some good detailed differences on another site

[GitInMuhBoat]

On 2/22/2025 at 8:02 PM, Scherbacj said:

It sounds like the Vessel View Mobile was discontinued and replaced by the Smartcraft Connect Module.

I am in the same situation and was looking into this last night. From what I found, Vessel View was indeed replaced by Smartcraft Connect and is supposed to add more support?

From the product description (SmartCraft Connect Mobile Module) on one of the mercury sites:

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Mercury Marine has discontinued producing the VesselView Mobile. This device will replace the VesselView Mobile in single engine applications where the device is mounted directly onto your engine. This device is designed for boaters without a multi-function device (MFD) such as a Garmin, Lowrance, Simrad, etc., installed.

 

[Scherbacj]

I installed my Smartcraft Connect (the new Vesselview Mobil) and everything works fine, but even after I turned off the ignition the bottom light was still on/flashing. That light was flashing before I got my phone connected, so I closed out the app, and it still didn’t turn off. Does that normally stay on? I worry about it draining my battery? I know it’s a small light and everything, but still, if that thing flashes all the time it will eventually drain the battery, so I am trying to determine if that is normal?
 

Unfortunately I couldn’t wait around forever to see if it would stop because it was getting dark and I needed to finish loading up and hooking up the boat, so I only saw it for a few minutes after turning off the ignition.