How to set up your own RTK base station.. for about £300

Topittom

Member
Is there anywhere to enable roaming?

Have to enable roaming for the Sims, it's perhaps a default setting.
Yes roaming is enabled. Will keep checking over the next few days and possibly move to centipede but can’t figure out how to register a mount point with them
 

andyinv

Member
Ok so I’ve had the sim in a phone and it’s made no difference to the accuracy. Do I need to do anything with the NMEA page? If not then I’m stumped, I’m in the north east, near darlington, is there anyone I can phone to help out? Thanks for all your help so far guys View attachment 1180861
That's for putting GPS location out from varioguide to (eg) a planter. Nothing to do with autosteer
 
is there a easy way with the ntrip wifi master to output base messages to more than 1 castor?
i was using rtk2go but it went unreliable so switched to rtkdata, but if for arguments sake my base went down for whatever reason i cant just switch details in agopen to the next nearest base as i dont know the port number:X3: :banghead:
or to make mine or everyone else,s bases available on rtkdata map??
 

Topittom

Member
Ok so journey so far trying to build base station and connect to Fendt topcon agi4 receiver. Bought simplertk2go f9p board and WiFi ntrip master but needed legacy messages pushing out so that didn’t work. Bought a raspberry pi and have that up and running. In the settings tap I’ve left the caster.centipede.fr login and put my mount point name and the password ‘centipede’. Also copied the legacy message set from earlier in this chat. Tractor won’t connect to ntrip. Changed to rtk2go in settings with my rtk2go password, checked the caster table and its not showing and the tractor won’t connect to this either. Is the message set wrong? Why isn’t the rtk2go showing on the caster table, it was with the WiFi ntrip master? There is a fee for returning this equipment as well so I’d like to get this working
 
Location
North
Ok so journey so far trying to build base station and connect to Fendt topcon agi4 receiver. Bought simplertk2go f9p board and WiFi ntrip master but needed legacy messages pushing out so that didn’t work. Bought a raspberry pi and have that up and running. In the settings tap I’ve left the caster.centipede.fr login and put my mount point name and the password ‘centipede’. Also copied the legacy message set from earlier in this chat. Tractor won’t connect to ntrip. Changed to rtk2go in settings with my rtk2go password, checked the caster table and its not showing and the tractor won’t connect to this either. Is the message set wrong? Why isn’t the rtk2go showing on the caster table, it was with the WiFi ntrip master? There is a fee for returning this equipment as well so I’d like to get this working

No need to return the equipment, I've used a similar set with our previous Fendt with a Fendt branded AGI-4.

What do you mean when you say the tractor won't connect to ntrip? Is it not able to log in to the caster or is not receiving any messages? Can you try another device like a smartphone with the Ntrip checker app to verify the caster and the base?

I'm not familiar with RTK2GO or Centipede, hopefully others can help if the issue is caster related.
 

Topittom

Member
No need to return the equipment, I've used a similar set with our previous Fendt with a Fendt branded AGI-4.

What do you mean when you say the tractor won't connect to ntrip? Is it not able to log in to the caster or is not receiving any messages? Can you try another device like a smartphone with the Ntrip checker app to verify the caster and the base?

I'm not familiar with RTK2GO or Centipede, hopefully others can help if the issue is caster related
i hope i can get it working.

when i used WiFi ntrip master the tractor connecting to the caster but accuracy was only 2m so unusable. I think it was you who said with agi4 you need a legacy message set which you can’t do with WiFi trip.

however with raspberry pi the tractor just gets stuck on ntrip login part. I’ve just downloaded the ntrip service checker but i cant login to my connection but im not sure what my login username and password are. I beleive for centipede it’s just centipede for both. What caster are you using? I’ll try anything at this point
 
Location
North
i hope i can get it working.

when i used WiFi ntrip master the tractor connecting to the caster but accuracy was only 2m so unusable. I think it was you who said with agi4 you need a legacy message set which you can’t do with WiFi trip.

however with raspberry pi the tractor just gets stuck on ntrip login part. I’ve just downloaded the ntrip service checker but i cant login to my connection but im not sure what my login username and password are. I beleive for centipede it’s just centipede for both. What caster are you using? I’ll try anything at this point

I'm using my own caster. Too far from you for anything else than connectivity testing.

Perhaps you could try pushing your data to my caster to check if it works OK?
 

Topittom

Member
I'm using my own caster. Too far from you for anything else than connectivity testing.

Perhaps you could try pushing your data to my caster to check if it works OK?
Yes I can try if you talk me through it, maybe pm if you want to ? I really appreciate any help and I’m willing to pay for time if needed
 

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