Argh!
And maybe I have to admit to my own mistakes here. Still think it’s a bit rough to be banned for leaving an NTRIP client running when there are issues on the caster side, but have had time to look at this and have learned a bit that may prove useful to new members.
The actual process for setting up an RTK base station with an Ardusimple simpleRTK2b board is really straight forward and I have been over complicating matters. Simply…
Download the Base Station config file from their site, upload it to your simpleRTK2b board and don’t mess with it.
Download RTKBase, burn it to an SD card and stick that in a Pi.
Do the relevant firewall rules and it should then work with rtk2go (once registered)
One thing I have learned is that this default config runs the board in “Survey in” mode for 60 seconds and this process is run every time the board is restarted unless the user changes from Survey In to Fixed in U-Centre.
There are some extra steps in this and I’ll write an updated guide when I get the chance, but it pretty much all works out of the box.
My biggest mistake was that, in my quest for the best accuracy and precision possible, I had set my RTK2b board to Survey In to run for a minimum of 24 hours before going to FIXED.
So it’s entirely possible that I annoyed the heck out of RTK2go every time I messed with my base and restarted this process.