Fieldbee

[CEONLTD]

My autosteer and basestation hopefully arriving tomorrow. Tablet has 6gb ram. Hopefully enough.

That's interesting about using lorap instead of wifi. My house is no where near some outfarms so going to mount basestation on tripod. Hope it goes well!

Hi tomildino

your tablet will be fine with 6Gb of ram.

drop us an email if you need any addtional support

 

[tomildinio]

Thank you!

 

[tomildinio]

Hi tomildino

your tablet will be fine with 6Gb of ram.

drop us an email if you need any addtional support

I mean 4gb of ram.

 

[Lieven]

I have 4Gb on smartphone, 3Gb on tablet.

It works fine on both devices!

 

[steveR]

I have 4Gb on smartphone, 3Gb on tablet.

It works fine on both devices!

2Gig on mine and works fine. BUT, shut down all other apps!

 

[tomildinio]

How did you get on with their router? Been struggling with mine. It Refuses to work.

 

[steveR]

How did you get on with their router? Been struggling with mine. It Refuses to work.

In what sense?

 

[scotston]

got rid of it. Seemed unnecessary after I found the samsung s6 lite LTE can be a hotspot, gather data and use wifi if needed. I did get their router to work but it needed new firmware (or I had accidently wiped it) and would only recognise certain sim cards. All in all a phaff. I do use LoRa instead of Ntrip but still reckon there's no problem missing out that part.

 

[tomildinio]

Ya.
I had to reconfigure it. I got a new sim card for it that it actually recognises. Still refuses to connect to the internet. I might revert to lora and happily take a hammer to their router at this stage.
I checked wiring last night on router which wasnt great and the aerials appear to be connected female to female.

 

[scotston]

what's pissing me off just now is that the LoRa (and Ntrip) signal in October from my base on the house roof worked flawless, and on Monday it was dead on, now can only get FRTK (2cm), occasionally going to RTK. This happens even when I have the receiver 10m away from the base. Nae idea what's going on!

 

[Dave645]

How did you get on with their router? Been struggling with mine. It Refuses to work.

Hi it’s tricky, but here are some tips I have found,
1. getting the receiver to connect to the router.
Ok this can be a few things, first that the receiver is in ap mode this happens after 20 seconds of it booting if the router doesn’t boot first it defaults to ap mode.
The fix is log into the receivers WiFi its its serial number, it will be listed in your tablet WiFi available list the password is the simple one 123. . .
The go to the FieldBee setup app, and you can get into its settings.
If it’s WiFi is set to rtkwifi with a password of 123... etc then if you reboot it it will log into the router.
The 3 dots top right brings a list up one of them is reboot.

2. Router does pull data from the SIM card you installed.
This is because the settings are for foreign SIM cards not up ones.

Ok I could do a blow by blow on how to edit them but I don’t have time now, the pic is for Vodafone but you need to find your companies one and add it to the list or edit the existing entry in the list the sim is trying to connect with.

3. In the FieldBee field app your not getting it talk to the app, click add device select auto steer, and pic the picture with the router in it this should get you up.

4. base station ok similar to 1 turn it on login to its ap WiFi signal use the setup app, click add either L1 or L2 device and it should be there click on it and your in setup.
4a in the WiFi tab in the base station you put the login details for you outside WiFi your running it from, click the plus button it should show you a list of all the WiFi it can see click on yours then add your password click save or reboot, and you should be done, if you after that want to enter setup to add or change other settings login to your outside WiFi the one you detailed above and use the setup FieldBee app again it should see it if not turn off the outside WiFi and power cycle the base station and it will go into AP mode again when it cannot find the WiFi signal, and then move the tablet to that and use the setup app again.

4. Router setting and getting to them, ok mine defaulted to rtkwifi, with the standard password.
Select it from the available WiFi list click connect, when it does, you can click on the connection you should get an gear icon click on this it brings up a list of actions one is setup router or confer router or similar, ( I am writing this from memory) this should bring you into the routers setup page (very complex)
This is where you can monitor the router and setup the SIM card settings. And others like passwords or WiFi name.

Hope that helps drawing text with a finger is never good. . . Lol.

N trip errors ok if you have got ntrip login details for a service you are paying for then you can add them in the setup app. In both the base station and the receiver, but if your using a base station then they are as far as I know they are not needed because the base station is supplying the correction details. So a ntrip error can be ignored.
I am finishing my setup today, so I hope to be able to do a guide at some point.

 

[scotston]

ntrip via the fieldbee base needs the base connected to internet as the ntrip castor is hosted on a server in Ukraine. You can only ignore ntrip error is using LoRa. Then the receiver in the tractor uses data to connect to the server to receive correction signal. All of which will scunner you for three days until you find out they hadn't configured the server properly! BARSTEWARD. But that was in August last year. LoRa does away with that pain.

 

[Dave645]

got rid of it. Seemed unnecessary after I found the samsung s6 lite LTE can be a hotspot, gather data and use wifi if needed. I did get their router to work but it needed new firmware (or I had accidently wiped it) and would only recognise certain sim cards. All in all a phaff. I do use LoRa instead of Ntrip but still reckon there's no problem missing out that part.

Lol I felt the same the SIM card problem is simple once you know the tricky part was working out what the problem was.
See my other post to edit the SIM card login details, for uk ones,
Vodafone sims that are 24GB 24months which my estimate is plenty I estimate from them that this is a guess based on data I have seen about 6mb per hr so 24GB is upto 4000 hrs.

 

[Dave645]

ntrip via the fieldbee base needs the base connected to internet as the ntrip castor is hosted on a server in Ukraine. You can only ignore ntrip error is using LoRa. Then the receiver in the tractor uses data to connect to the server to receive correction signal. All of which will scunner you for three days until you find out they hadn't configured the server properly! BARSTEWARD. But that was in August last year. LoRa does away with that pain.

Ok that sounds right, I may have messed up my ntrip settings in the receiver I will have to do it’s update and hope it comes back or find them again, or I will have to see how you setup your own ntrip server, which is likely just an old pc running some software. Lol I am not sure the LoRa will cover all my farm it’s spread out.

 

[tomildinio]

In what sense?

One issue I just fixed last night was the antennas were not connected to the router as they were 2 female connectors and not male and female. Once I found that out I fixed that so getting good signal to the router but now I think what's happening is the ISP wants more apn values then the mikrotik router can provide for.
So I have signal and connection but denied internet access.

 

[CEONLTD]

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[steveR]

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Free bottle of Guiness with every purchase??

 

[CEONLTD]

Free bottle of Guiness with every purchase??

lol i throw that in as well

 

[scotston]

Finally got the hydraulic autosteer installed. Now to go drilling with it after testing and calibration.

 

[tomildinio]

Been using mine at fertilizer last few days. It's been working fine once I reboot it once in the morning after start up.
A manual on getting most from the app be good and also it doesnt paint the screen anymore. Im Sure it's a toggle somewhere but since it stopped it it ithe app has been very speedy.