AgOpenGPS RTK Autosteer, How to Guide for £1000

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S.Jamieson

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Mixed Farmer
I had a good go in the winter at getting my WAS really zeroed, and when I started sowing yesterday I was delighted with how well it was performing.
Today, same tractor, same settings....not as good. It seems to be pretty perfect a lot of the time, 0 flickering orange and green, maybe a 2cm wiggle here and there, but then it'll drift to 5, 6 7cm with no real response, perhaps a slow move back to the line.
Yesterday it would never have let itself get to 5cm from the line..

AIO board, phidgets motor.
 
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S.Jamieson

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It seems to have a lot of rtk connectivity issues today aswell. Age up to 40seconds on each round of the field.

CFD1 connected to O2 Hotspot on my phone.
 
clbarclay

clbarclay

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Worcestershire
The field isn't near your house is it?

I notice that happening in corner of one field by the house. My phone was switching back and fort between WiFi and 4g. Disabling the phone from using the house wifi, so it only used 4g, kept the correction age steady and low.
 
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S.Jamieson

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Mixed Farmer
clbarclay said:
The field isn't near your house is it?

I notice that happening in corner of one field by the house. My phone was switching back and fort between WiFi and 4g. Disabling the phone from using the house wifi, so it only used 4g, kept the correction age steady and low.
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Nope.
 
Andy26

Andy26

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Arable Farmer
Location
Northants
clbarclay said:
The field isn't near your house is it?

I notice that happening in corner of one field by the house. My phone was switching back and fort between WiFi and 4g. Disabling the phone from using the house wifi, so it only used 4g, kept the correction age steady and low.
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The Panasonic tablets have amazing WiFi range, I find it's connected to WiFi when I didn't intend.
 
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aidan

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Ireland
first time using Agopengps for fert spreading yesterday. Went well. However did think my 12m tramlines were v wide. I didn't get out the measuring tape however, will do someday soon before the tracks disappear.

Experience when using it: Need to forget about gauging distance from previous tramline by eye and focus on following the pink line on the GPS. Harder that it appears to follow those pink lines too.

I have a question - no where is there I could have put in an offset in the settings such that i would have been wider than 12m.

The 600cm is the only setting i can find which could have influenced the distance between my tramlines as far as i can see.
 

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e3120

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Location
Northumberland
aidan said:
first time using Agopengps for fert spreading yesterday. Went well. However did think my 12m tramlines were v wide. I didn't get out the measuring tape however, will do someday soon before the tracks disappear.

Experience when using it: Need to forget about gauging distance from previous tramline by eye and focus on following the pink line on the GPS. Harder that it appears to follow those pink lines too.

I have a question - no where is there I could have put in an offset in the settings such that i would have been wider than 12m.

The 600cm is the only setting i can find which could have influenced the distance between my tramlines as far as i can see.
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There's a setting for overlap/skip. If you have inadvertently put, say, a 1m skip, that would widen your tracks to 13.

The page isn't far away from the one you've pictured.
 
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andyinv

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aidan said:
first time using Agopengps for fert spreading yesterday. Went well. However did think my 12m tramlines were v wide. I didn't get out the measuring tape however, will do someday soon before the tracks disappear.

Experience when using it: Need to forget about gauging distance from previous tramline by eye and focus on following the pink line on the GPS. Harder that it appears to follow those pink lines too.

I have a question - no where is there I could have put in an offset in the settings such that i would have been wider than 12m.

The 600cm is the only setting i can find which could have influenced the distance between my tramlines as far as i can see.
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There's a dedicated tramlines video on the agOpenGPS channel on YouTube, have a look. Also check out the implement setup one
 
davidroberts30

davidroberts30

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pembrokeshire
andyinv said:
Rtkdata.online is free and seems pretty decent
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Yeah looking last night and found mine on there from rtk2go🤔
Can i direct my base to send to rtkdata instead of rtk2go?

I take it i cant send my base data to more than 1 castor so if 1 was down i could connect to another?
Bear in mind if im in the field i cant change any base station settings
 
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andyinv

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davidroberts30 said:
Yeah looking last night and found mine on there from rtk2go🤔
Can i direct my base to send to rtkdata instead of rtk2go?

I take it i cant send my base data to more than 1 castor so if 1 was down i could connect to another?
Bear in mind if im in the field i cant change any base station settings
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Yup, you can do that. Ntrip A and B in rtkbase. Also, with AOG, you can run tailscale on rtkbase and your tablet and connect direct to home securely
 

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