simple gps area counter

grass man

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I'm looking for something cheep and cheerful to measure area. it is to be fitted on my raking up tractor to measure silage fields. it might need to be changed between tractors, I don't need any form of guidance just the ability to measure and maybe store some totals as the days work progresses. any suggestions? tia
 

grass man

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we can measure off google maps but after a busy week and maybe 50 - 100 fields my memory struggles to remember that's why I was looking for something that the rake man could use and jot down the total acres for each farm and put them on his time sheets. thought there may be a cheaper alternative to an ez guide or similar considering we don't need guidance.
 
Grass man, give it a whirl. An inexpensive garmin antenna and a windows tablet. Full section control so it just paints as you go. You fill in the equipment parameters, it does the rest. Both contour and AB line lightbar. Runs windows 7 to 10. And its free, nothing to lose. Continuously being developed. Version going up shortly which includes perimeter and area calcs, as in drive around the outside and it will show area.

https://github.com/farmerbriantee/AgOpenGPS

https://www.youtube.com/user/FarmerBrianTee/videos?sort=dd&view=0&shelf_id=0
 

Mfrost

New Member
Hi, SOYL here, you could always test out our free scouting app, iSOYLScout, it will let you map areas and make notes, take pictures and flag areas of concern. e.g black grass, holes etc.

I hope this helps!
Mark
 

Robt

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Location
Suffolk
Looks good,
One question if I may, when you mention section control is it just on screen animated or does it actually control the sprayer or spreader?
 

MikeO

New Member
I'm looking for something cheep and cheerful to measure area. it is to be fitted on my raking up tractor to measure silage fields. it might need to be changed between tractors, I don't need any form of guidance just the ability to measure and maybe store some totals as the days work progresses. any suggestions? tia

Patchwork have just released a new GPS Guidance system at Lamma called the BlackBox AIR which might be of interest to you, go to www.patchworkgps.com/blackbox-air to have a look.
 
Looks good,
One question if I may, when you mention section control is it just on screen animated or does it actually control the sprayer or spreader?
No smoke and mirrors, nope. Full 5 sections of control with on lookahead, off delay, and individual sections have their own speed compensation like going around corners when one section is going fast and one very slow. Out to serial com port, here controlling an arduino.


also has tcp and udp ethernet servers too. Abline and contour guidance.
 
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No smoke and mirrors, nope. Full 5 sections of control with on lookahead, off delay, and individual sections have their own speed compensation like going around corners when one section is going fast and one very slow.

Anyone knows if "commercial" products have this or if they assume the same speed for all sections?
 
Anyone knows if "commercial" products have this or if they assume the same speed for all sections?
I am not aware of any, read a lot of manuals but perhaps do it but don't mention it. Also if the section is going backwards, for example an outside section of high clearance sprayer on a sharp turn AgOpen will also turn it off and once going forward turn on again.
 

holwellcourtfarm

Member
Livestock Farmer
Anyone knows if "commercial" products have this or if they assume the same speed for all sections?
The Arag Bravo 400 "Seletron" must monitor nozzle stored as it can be supplied with individually controlled quad nozzle holders and their website claims that the controller will automatically select a higher flow nozzle on the boom outer section in a turn to compensate for higher speeds.

Compensating for individual nozzle speed is a very clever trick though.
 
A couple fellows in Australia are working with Emlid RTK and AgOpen and hope to use the open source RTK library, Emlid RTK receivers, and open source AgOpen to have a full cm level accuracy system for around 1000 US $. Still some development time with RTK but getting very close.

I do like the price!
Did you and Stef get any further on collaborating with his home auto-steer setup?
 
No. He was unwilling to commit to sharing code or ideas. Although he has full access, as does everyone on the planet, to AgOpenGPS and its source code on Github. As far as i know it is the only open source Agricultural Precision software. Believe me, i have looked to find ideas and hints of any kind, and there are none.

Autosteer is the next hurdle.
 

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