From looking at you picture it looks like you have your usb cable plugged into the wrong side of the ardusimple board for programing
I am back at this project. Thanks for the tip for attaching to the GPS port.
I now have the receiver connected to ucenter and it is reading my location. However, I still cannot get the firmware update to load. I have been searching on the internet and others are having firmware issues as well. Can someone check my screenshot and give me some idea what might be my problem. See screenshot.
Below is a screenshot of the firmware version in use.
It seem that you are trying to upload frimware 1.12 to an already 1.12 f9p and at a baudrate of 921 600.
Be sure the file to upload is 1.13 and set the baudrate to 230 000.
I was able to upload the new firmware version 1.13 and now have the following message when I upload the config file from MortonP.
Is there another config file to use for firmware version 1.13?
That worked. Not sure why but I will go with it.
Thanks again.
Question: Now that I installed the firmware update and the config files agopengps says “lost RTK” .
I am not running an RTK base station. The receiver worked fine before I updated the firmware to 1.13 and the config file. Did I do something wrong?
I am just looking to simple autosteer at this point to learn how it works.
There is an alarm you can set on of off for RTK. Set off if you don’t use it.
In data sources
Thanks for your help. I am anxious to install this on my tractor now that I know my table model works.
the f9p is a rtk receiver. so you should setup a base station or get a rtcm correction elsewhere.
autosteer without rtk do not realy works very good.
if you like to test really without rtk you might turn on sbas in receiver config for more accuracy.
The F9p works well without rtk, I did this autumn seeding in “single” mode.
But Aortner is also correct, because when you come back to the field an hour later, the A B line has moved some centimeters to the side, so you have to center the line again.
U-turn also works well.
But my winter project is to set up a base.
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Hi I have the ardusimple LR kit. Base and rover. I am located in Canada. Should I use @Aortner config version 1.13?
Yes, 1.13.
I believe you’ll need to make a couple of changes so that it will send and receive rtcm corrections via the radios. I don’t remember offhand what they are though…
Was it a complete kit from Ardusimple, base and rover with long range radios? Shouldn’t the modules then be pre-configured by Ardusimple? Might be simpler to start with the existing configuration and then change constellation settings etc. if the rover does not work at 10 Hz with initial settings.
@NorthernFarmer Yes, it was a complete kit. Worked great last year for light bar guidance. Just completed my first install of autosteer. Pcbv2, no mma, no dog2, no brick. Problem I’m having is steering motor will only move in short pulses. Never smooth continuous movements. After reading on the forum of another person’s same problem, the resolution to the problem was to change the HZ of the rover. (To move info being sent to AOGZ). Hence the suggestion of using @Aortner config v1.13. My concern is if his config will work well with a north American setup.
Should have added using cytron motor controller
I did not know that the Ardusimple default configuration uses such a low position calculation rate. Indeed you have to change it.
I doubt the Andreas configuration would have any differences for the North American market from that for Europe since we are not using SBAS but RTK. Your choice to edit the rate setting with u-center or try the Andreas configuration. I prefer to change settings “manually”, easier to keep track of what is actually happening, which parameters and features are active.
@NorthernFarmer my problem is I’m very comfortable with the hardware side of this project. Not so much with the software/firmware side. Using some elses settings is best for me. Are you able to share your settings?