What basic gps?

[Headless chicken]

Our patchwork has gone buggered. Dealer says about £1200 for a new one. Can one be made or bought for less? Fertiliser spreading and a little drilling will be its jobs.

 

[Oldmacdonald]

Our patchwork has gone buggered. Dealer says about £1200 for a new one. Can one be made or bought for less? Fertiliser spreading and a little drilling will be its jobs.

AgopenGPS.

 

[Farma Parma]

Screen of some sort, free to recieve roof receiver
None of this is for free of course.
Is tractor steering ready? makes it easier if it is.

 

[Headless chicken]

AgopenGPS.

Is this just download and go? Assume you need a receiver on roof?

 

[Headless chicken]

Screen of some sort, free to recieve roof receiver
None of this is for free of course.
Is tractor steering ready? makes it easier if it is.

Unsure is the honest truth. Probably don’t need autosteer for the little we do

 

[Oldmacdonald]

Reciever about £200, same for screen.

Thats pretty much the total cost.

 

[Andy26]

Order this:

simpleRTK2B - Basic Starter Kit

The Starter Kit allows simple and fast evaluation of Dual Band GNSS (GPS/Galileo/Glonass/Beidou) RTK technology, based on u-blox ZED-F9P module.

www.ardusimple.com

And this:

Panasonic ToughPad FZ-G1 MK3 i5 8GB 128GB GPS 4G Rugged Diagnostic Tablet WIN 10 | eBay

Panasonic ToughPad FZ-G1 MK3 Rugged Diagnostic Tablet. Model No: FZ-G1 (MK3). 128Gb SSD (these use mSata SSD and you can fit your own large capacity as required). Built in Dual Webcam (one front one back) plus all standard features for the model.

www.ebay.co.uk

Then download this:

Releases · farmerbriantee/AgOpenGPS

Ag Precision Mapping, Section Control and Guidance Software - farmerbriantee/AgOpenGPS

github.com

Fully upgradeable to autosteer, section control etc., with a little effort if you wished in the future.

If near a basestation on RTK2Go then will have free RTK too.

 

[Aceface]

A few years ago I downloaded an app on an old phone I no longer have. It was great for working basic A to B lines, and manually steering to them, but really needed a phone mount in the cab rather than trying to balance it on my knee and steer at the same time. Iirc, it was free to use in the basic format, but would require paid subscription for better service and data management. By now, I guess there are umpteen basic "sat nav" apps available for your phone free or very cheap, though, iirc, I could use a lot of data capacity on my phone, if I wasn't careful, though nowadays data time is much cheaper.

 

[steveR]

A few years ago I downloaded an app on an old phone I no longer have. It was great for working basic A to B lines, and manually steering to them, but really needed a phone mount in the cab rather than trying to balance it on my knee and steer at the same time. Iirc, it was free to use in the basic format, but would require paid subscription for better service and data management. By now, I guess there are umpteen basic "sat nav" apps available for your phone free or very cheap, though, iirc, I could use a lot of data capacity on my phone, if I wasn't careful, though nowadays data time is much cheaper.

They don't really use a lot of data on the very basic apps. Trouble is, the phone GPS is really not very accurate on location.

Fieldbee free is a nice bit of software I always reckon.

 

[Scoobyscotlad]

 

[andyinv]

They don't really use a lot of data on the very basic apps. Trouble is, the phone GPS is really not very accurate on location.

Fieldbee free is a nice bit of software I always reckon.

You can use an F9P over USB on your phone, and it will provide a "mock location", so you'll get far more accurate GPS that way. You can also feed it an RTK signal, so your phone (well, the F9P antenna) becomes centimetre-level...

 

[steveR]

You can use an F9P over USB on your phone, and it will provide a "mock location", so you'll get far more accurate GPS that way. You can also feed it an RTK signal, so your phone (well, the F9P antenna) becomes centimetre-level...

I used a Reach RS2 (since sold) for RTK adjusted signal, then BT to the phone or tablet, for use by the apps.

 

[Big>gray]

There are loads of second hand patchwork kits on Facebook market place for not big money

 

[DrDunc]

There are loads of second hand patchwork kits on Facebook market place for not big money

The ones that don't say cracked or broken are still twice the price agopengps can be done for

Depends if you want to spend the time to learn the software I suppose

 

[RTCM]

Hi @Headless chicken which model is it that you have? Is the screen past it?

 

[Headless chicken]

Hi @Headless chicken which model is it that you have? Is the screen past it?

I’ll be honest I have no clue, I’d have to double check but I’m pretty sure we sent it back to patchwork and they just said that the software is no longer supported but didn’t send the unit back.

 

[Headless chicken]

So finally go around to sorting this. I’ve ordered a toughbook and an antenna. I assume I now need a cox to Ethernet converter to connect the two together? Or how does it receive the signal? Are these all created equal or do I need to buy the correct one?

 

[davidroberts30]

So finally go around to sorting this. I’ve ordered a toughbook and an antenna. I assume I now need a cox to Ethernet converter to connect the two together? Or how does it receive the signal? Are these all created equal or do I need to buy the correct one?

are you doing agopen gps?

 

[Headless chicken]

are you doing agopen gps?

Yep. But just basic without the auto steer.

 

[davidroberts30]

Yep. But just basic without the auto steer.

plenty of us on here to guide you


it will be full rtk autosteer in no time