I’m sure most of us have struggled setting up the caster for the first time.
Looks like your caster is not properly running. I could try to verify your SNIP configuration as I have no experience on the other casters that you have tried. I use the BKG caster on Ubuntu for real (even if I’m not that familiar with either one, Linux or BKG) but I have SNIP caster running too for testing.
Your base must be fine if all works fine through rtk2go. Did you use SNIP to push the RTK correction data to rtk2go? If yes, then your NTRIP server side (or the equivalent) is fine. You can see the SNIP input counter increasing.
SNIP user accounts have been set and the caster IP and port are set (192.168.2.109 and 2101) and the caster has been started or configured to auto-start?
EDIT: I would first try to make an independent NTRIP client work, running on the same computer as the caster. The client does not need to be connected to any GNSS reciver, just receiving correction data from the caster.
I used ESP32 XBee to send data to rtk2go. I’ve now managed to get correction data to go across my local network. Source tables weren’t working because Chrome doesn’t like them. They show up in Firefox at my local network addresses. It seems I just can’t get it out of my router!
Public IP for WAN side (=outside world) on router. (You might have to use a different APN on your router settings for this. Check details from your internet connection provider).
Port forwarding set right on the router.
Firewall open in the pc running the ntrip caster.
Ntrip caster program running and caster IP & Port set right.
I don’t know how to make them static on this router. I’ve done it on others I’m sure but this one is not very intuitive. I’m going to scrap it. BUT I have set the router up to the present device IP and it still fails to get to the outside world on every device apart from with RTK2Go which obviously doesn’t require my outside visibility.
I do have a second broadband connection with a different provider and obviously a different router.I haven’t tried this yet because the casters are out of it’s wifi range and it has no ethernet link to my office either. Maybe this might be worth investigating?
Edit: sorry. I’m still new to all of this. I’m assuming you’re running a caster on a laptop, but this is where you tell me that a caster is a base station… is it? And therefore running on neither.
Either way, you have set up your port 2101 to send traffic to 192.168.2.109. You need to make sure your caster has that IP address permanently set.
If that is all done and there are no other firewalls on the caster, then I don’t think the problem is with your network.
ESP32 Xbee so obviously an ESP32 (currently on RTK2Go and seems fine on that) , also a raspberry pi (RPINtripBase) so linux. I’ve tried with snip on a windows 10 laptop too. I’m sure the caster side isn’t the issue. It works on the local network.
I hate windows with a passion so have absolutely no wish to run one on that permanently.
The ESP32Xbee has a static option but I don’t understand it fully and if you just set it to static without properly setting it up it disappears off the network. Thankfully it has both a hardware default reset and it’s own wifi hotspot for setup.
Setup is done on a web page it produces.
The raspberry pi one is setup using ssh over the network, editing config files.
My preferred option though is the raspberry pi RPINtripBase.
I’ve made progress, not least because of your confidence in my network settings.
I am guessing I have had issues with all my casters.
ESP32-XBee is now working from outside my local network. My problem with that was I had got it sendinig to RTK2Go as well as trying to act as a caster itself. With both enabled, server and caster, the server still works fine but the caster allows a connection but sends no data.
RPINtripBase is still not working but obviously my network does, so it is now going to get a clean re-install. I will keep you posted for interest sake.
Thank you again for looking over my setup.
[Edit…] ESP32-XBee has a static IP setting and set up correctly it works fine.
Snip is also working now. I’ve temporarily used port 12101 and it’s sourcetable is externally visible.
RPINtripBase isn’t working. I’ve re-installed and still no joy. Anyone know contact info for the developer(s) or a better resource than the rather vague readme.md?
You’re still a dozen steps ahead of me, last week I learned what an ESP32 is (but this is for a totally different purpose. The autonomous vehicle I am building is running a bunch of tools and I am having to learn to manage these before I can move onto the next stage: building a base station.).
ESP32’s are near two orders of magnitude faster than arduinos in some situations, and with their connectivity they are so much more useful!! I’ve got an ESP32-CAM here that I am desperate to play with but my FTDI Serial Adapter hasn’t turned up yet (they don’t have USB onboard for programming).
My biggest issue with the base was blaming my lack of network knowledge instead of investigating other possible problems!!
Why would you run your rtcm stream locally?
If you send it thru rtk2go, it’s all safe, no open ports on your modem/router, and works probably always… just wondering.
RTK2Go are understandably not happy about testing being done through their service. Maybe I will just use that in the end but in my area there are basically no RTK base stations. Others may well pay for access to mine.
So access control too.
Hi .
Right now you can create yourself an NTRIP CASTER server with only ESP32 here.
No need for static IP addresses or 1008 injection.
Because it’s all fully supported.
Hope it will help your work.
